'Extracts from Gazetteer of the Persian Gulf, Oman and Central Arabia by J G Lorimer CIE, Indian Civil Service' [‎77r] (158/180)

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Section.
Main division.
Location.
Remarks.
Darawishah
Do.
Hairah, Hamriyah
and Sharjah Town
in Sharjah, also
Ras-al -Khaimah
Town.
At these places the settled members of
this section aggregate more than 1.500
souls. The Shaikhs of Hamriyah and
Hairah belong to this section.
Dhanain (Al
BQ)
Al Bu Kharaiban.
'Ajman and else
where.
About 700_ souls. The name is also
given as Al Bu Adhnain.
Hamirat
Do.
Do.
This section consists of about 90 towns
people and 90 Bedouins.
Hiyah ('Aval)
Al Bu Shamis.
Dhank Town in
Dhahirah.
The name is also given as Ahiya. They
are all townspeople and number about
150 souls. In religion they are Shafi'i
Sunnis.
Khawatir
Al Bu Kharaiban.
Hafit village in Jau
and the Jiri plain
in Sharjah.
The Khawatir of the Jiri plain are
Bedouins inhabiting black blanket
tents; they number about 500 souls
and are said to own some 800 camels,
70 donkeys, 100 cattle and 1,500
sheep and goats.
Kilabinah
Al Bu Shamis.
Hafit village in Jau
and Sanqar in
Batinah.
Qaratisah
Al Bu Kharaiban.
Baraimi Village
and Su'arah in the
Baraimi Oasis.
The Shaikh of 'Ajman belongs to this
section.
Shawamis
Al Bu Shamis.
Bizaili and Sanainah
in Dhahirah, also
Dhank Town.
About 1,400 souls, partly Bedouin. A
few of the Bedouins affect to be Maliki
Sunnis; the remainder of the section
are Hanbalis.
{N.B. —There is also a Shawamis section
of the Bani Kalaib tribe.)
Wahaishah
Do.
Dhank Town in
Dhahirah.
About 250 souls. Tn religion the
majority are Ibadhis, some are Shafi'is,
and a few Hanifis.
The A1 Bu Kalbi of 'Ajman Town are perhaps another section of the 1 BQA
Kharaiban division of this tribe.
Political position of the Nairn in 'Oman. —The Baraimi Oasis, where they are
still politically though no longer numerically predominant, is regarded by the
Nairn of 'Oman as their tribal headquarters; but at 'Ajman and Hamriyah, botn
of which places are ruled over by Na'aimi Shaikhs, their position appears to be
more secure than it is in Baraimi at the present day. They are also the most
powerful Ghafiri tribe in the Dhahirah District of the Oman Sultanate;^ but their
relations with the ruler of the Sultanate are slight. Except at 'Ajman and
Hamriyah the Nairn appear to be weakened by internal dissensions, but their
Bedouins are described as warlike and predatory. In 'Oman the Na im are
generally Sunnis of the Hanbali school; one or two exceptions to this rule are
noted in the table in the preceding paragraph.
Settled Nrf'im of Bahrain.—VJe now turn to the second territorial division of
the tribe—a branch severed from the parent trunk some generations ago who
are found in Bahrain and Qatar. Tn the region in question non-Bedouin members
of the tribe are now found only in the Bahrain islands where they have 60 houses
at Umm-ash-Shajar, 50 at Halat-an-Na'im, 30 at Shajairah, 10 at Halat-as-Sulutah
and a few at Rifa '-al-Gharbi; they thus number about 800 souls altogether.
There are now no settled Na'im in Qatar. _ • , ^ -
Bedouin Na'im of Bahrain and Qatar. —The nomadic Na'im outside Oman
are believed to number about 2,000 souls. Tn winter they live in Qatar, chiefly in
the neighbourhood of Zubarah 18th-century town located 105 km from Doha. ; in the hot weather most of them remove to
Bahrain and form camps in the northern part of the main island, but some take
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