"تقرير عسكري عن العراق. المنطقة ٢ (أعلى الفرات)" [و‎‎٢‎٧] (١٤٠/٥٨)

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Minor tribe, section
or sub-section
Main tribe or
confederation
Minor tribe, section
or sub-section
Main tribe or
confederation
Taha albu.
Taiyib albu.
Ta’mah albu.
Dulaim.
Dulaim.
Ujur albu.
Dulaim.
Dulaim.
Watbali al.
Anizah.
Tauraah al.
Aqaidat.
Wulud al.
Anizah.
Thulth al.
Aqaidat.
Wulud Ali.
Anizah.
Tuluh.
Anizah.
Tuwaisat albu.
Dulaim.
Zabanah.
Zaid Bani.
Anizah.
Dulaim.
Ubaid albu.
Dulaim.
Zaid Bani.
Zoba’.
Ubidah.
Anizah.
Zubur.
Zoba’.
• Anizah.
i. The great group of the Anizah, numerically probably the
largest group in the nomad Arab tribes, occupies the triangle of
the Syrian Desert or Hamad which has its base on latitude 30°
i. with Jauf about as its centre, and its apex at Aleppo. On the
left bank of the Euphrates the pastures north of Dair-al-Zor
J . vatl ' and along the Khabur are also visited by the Anizah. A
smaller group of kindred tribes is seated round Teima between
the Hejaz Railway and the south-west borders of the Nefud.
These will not be further discussed here.
The Anizah belong to the people of the north, Ahl-Ash-
i, Shimal. The modern Anizah tribesman will always claim
descent from Wa’il, who belonged to a younger branch of the
i. Asad group, and relate that it is his son ’Anaz who is the founder
of the tribe. The tribe is not united under one head, but
divided into several large sections which maintain an attitude
™ s ' generally friendly, but which does not exclude raids and feuds
between the sections.
Their original home is believed to have been a little north
of Madinah on the watershed between the Red Sea and the
t. basin of %.) Wadi-ar-Rummah. In the second half of the
eighteenth century one of those mysterious impulses which,
from the beginning of historic times, have set the inhabitants
of the Arabian Peninsula moving northwards—influences
which may spring from an almost imperceptible change in
climatic conditions coupled with the gradual increase of
population in a land incapable of supporting more than very
small numbers—began to disturb the Anizah and portions
of the Shammar.