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MUTAlLr—
A village in Wadi A seasonal or intermittent watercourse, or the valley in which it flows. 'Andam (g. v-), in the 'Oman Sultanate.
MUTAILI'AH—
A hill, in the Zor District {q. v.), of the Kuwait Principality, near Jahrah.
MUTAINA (R as)—
A cape on the Yemen coast o{ the Red Sea, situated 41 nautical miles northward of
Mokha. According to the Shaikh of Khaukhah, Ras Mutaina is under the Shaikh of
, Muhib. There is good anchorage here from south-east winds {Azyab), shelter being
afforded by a reef.
Mutaina village contains 150 houses and possesses good water; there are some 60 or
70 Saiyids here,— { Wauhope, 1916,)
MUTAIR of UMTAIR—
A prreat and typical* Bedouin Arab tribe of Central Arabia.
Limit*. —The range of the Mutair is more extensive than that of any tribe except the
'Anizah. They are the principal nomad visitors to Qas^m and the almost exclusive
possessors of Dahanah and Summan. On the north-east they extend far into Kuwait
territory, where they have a favourite summer camping-ground at Jahrah; on the
south-west they are found on the outskirts of Qasim about Miskah and Dharlyah, in
Washam and Wadi A seasonal or intermittent watercourse, or the valley in which it flows. -as-Sirr, and at a great distance off in the volcanic country between
Mecca and Al-Madinah ; a few of them visit 'Aridh. Hejaz is said to have been the
cradle of their race. On the Persian Gulf The historical term used to describe the body of water between the Arabian Peninsula and Iran. side their northernmost limit is at a place
called Bishuq, the positon of which is not accurately known ; southwards they reach
to the end of Summan, and to Hasa in which they sometimes wander. The Mutair are
in contact on the north with the 'Anizah, on the north-west with the Shammar, on the
west with the Harb, 'Ataibah, Qahtan, Dawasir and Sabai', on the south-west with the
Ajman, and on the south with the Al-Morrah, Bani Haiir and Manasir. At the wells
of Dukhnah their Bedouins have been supplanted in recent times by the 'Ataibah.
The Mutair, closely akin to their western neighbours the Harb and the 'Ataibah, are
people of the north claiming descent through Mudhar from Ma'ad. A turbulent tribe,
some 2,700 tents strong (including the Brain), the Mutair stand in close relations with
the Shaikh of Kuwait. With Ibn Rash id they are perpetually at feud and no year passes
without raiding expeditions from one dirah to the other. It was a Mutairi who in 1908
killed the Amir 'Abdul 'Aziz, father of the present Amir Ibin Rashid, of Hail, at Raudhat
Mahanna, near Buraidah. The Mutair harry the outlying settlements of Qasim and
not infrequently interrupt the caravan traffic to the Persian Gulf The historical term used to describe the body of water between the Arabian Peninsula and Iran. . Their peramount
Shaikh, Faisal- ad-Darwish, pastures in the Kuwait area and is head of some 800 tents.
All the Mutair belong to the confederation of Ibn Sa'ud and contribute fighting men to
his raiding expedition. They are camel-breeders and entirely nomadic. They possess
no cultivated ground.
Some authorities treat the Braih to be an independent tribe, but others consider
them to be so closely allied with the Mutair as to be of the same stock. In all political
relations they are held to be at one with the Mutair and like them come under the au
thority of Ibn Sa'ud. Their pasturages are in Qasim. They are reported to have
opposed 'Abdullah, the second son of the Sharif of Mecca, when he raided Sadair in 1914
in order to collect overdue taxes from the eastern 'Ataibah, and that after some fighting
they were defeated.
i Settled Mutair are found chiefly in Qasim, where some of the inhabitants of Bukairi-
yah, Butainiyat, Ghaf I, Hatan, Khabb, Khabb-al-Qabar, Khudhairah, Muraid
Saiyid, Rafi'ah, Raudhat-al-Mahanna, Ta'amiyah, Qasr Zaid and Ummahat-az-Ziya-
bah are supposed to be of Mutair blood ; and non-nomadic Mutair occur also at
Dhrumah in 'Aridh ; at 'Ashairah in Sadair and at Jaraifah in Washam in Southern
Najd, and in the villages of Wadi A seasonal or intermittent watercourse, or the valley in which it flows. -al-Miyah in the Hasa Sanjaq.
•Thp Mufcair have been described at some length, as, on account of their present close relations with Kuwait
it Wn nfwslble to procure detailed and authentic information concerning them. Very full particulars of the
jti hi an Rtih-di vision and of some of the sections of the Umwahah sub-division, with pedigrees of chiefs, etc., are
Jiv?by CapUin Knox, Folitical Agent at Kuwait, in an Appetdl* to his Diary No. 19 for the week ending 8th
May 1907. * ~
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