'Gazetteer of Arabia Vol. I' [‎631] (674/1050)

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FUQAMAS—
One of the Umwaliali families of the Mutair tribe {q. ■y.)- They belong to the Sahabah
section of which they supply the Shaikhs.
FUQARAH—
A tribe of J Anizah Arabs of Al-Hajar whose circuit begins about Dar«al=Hamra and
reaches to Bir-al-Ghanam ; it is not less wide from the Darb-al-Hajj eastward to Jabal
Birrd. They are nearly 800 souls and their tents are two hundred ; few of them know
much about any country outside their dlrdh unless it be the roads to Hail, their political,
or Al-Madmah, their religious metropolis. Their ancient name is Menabaha, and they
gay that the princely family of Ibn Sa'ud is of their stock. They do not wander about
In firqdrii or nomad hamlets, as is the general custom with such folk, but always to
gether.
At Birkat Mu'adhdham is the border between the Fuqarah and the Khuthera. At
Al-Hajar there are always the tents of a few nomad families of Fuqarah in front of the
qaVah on the Hajj route. It is said of the Fuqarah, by the qaVah soldiery at Madain
Salih, that they are more like gypsies than Bedouins, and they bear an evil reputation
among the Haji, which is hardly justified, for thieving. In bygone days the Fuqarah
and the Mawahib drove out the Bani Sakhr from Al-Jau, in the midst of Harrat 'Awai-
tld.
The Fuqarah are commonly reckoned last to the north of the Ahl Jibliyah, or southern
Aarab, and their fendies are Salih, or Al-Fajir, Al-Mughassib, Zuarah, Hamdan, Hajur,
'Ainat,- Sugra, Al-Klaib and Al-Khamalah.
The Fuqarah are a tribe of date-eaters and have scarcely a well-grown man or a comely
woman among them. They are a fanatical people and are reckoned a tribe of horse
men. They have clay summer-houses at Khaibar where they have palm plantations
in old-time partnership with the negroid cultivators, descendants no doubt of former
hon-vivants ; and there they draw their yearly provision of dates.
Sometimes their caravans go down to Al-Wajj to sell camels and buy rice therewith
and some poor Fuqarah tribesfolk are wont to carry an impure salt, which they dig
in the desert near Tayma, to Al-'Ali where they receive, four riyals for their camel-load.
Fuqarah eat the hedgehog and the fox, and even, it is said by their neighbours, the
hysena. The Mawahib Bedouins call them despitefully Yahud Khaibar.
The whole fortune of the Fuqarah in the field, with their cattle, booths, and utensils;
may be estimated at £ 17,000 ; and besides this they have landed patrimony worth
possibly £ 7,000 more. There is always living with the northern Walad 'Ali a body of
the Fuqarah which, for a blood feud with the Bishr, might not remain in their own
country.
The Bishr and the twin tribes Walad 'Ali and Fuqarah, also the Mawahib and the
Bani Atiyah, are all of them of one stock and kindred ; being sub-tribes of the great
Ishmaelite 'Anizah nomad nation; and all, as they hold, descended from a common
patriarch. Wail.— {Doughty.)
It will be observed that Doughty divides the Fuqarah into eight sub-sections ; Huber
divides them into nine. Only three names in the two lists appear to correspond, an
apt illustration of the difficulty of tribal questions in Arabia. In the Gazetteer of the
Persian Gulf The historical term used to describe the body of water between the Arabian Peninsula and Iran. the Fuqarah are shown as belonging to the Bishr division of the 'Anizah
{q.v.), but it is not clear that this has Doughty's support.
ITJQQAH (EJ)—
A gorge in Jabal Salmah (g.i 1 .), in the Shammar district of Central Arabia,
FUQUM—
See Aden (Protectorate.)
FURAT—
See Euphrates.
FURDHAT HASSAS—•
A spring a short distance below Khubar Bani Harras, in Wadi A seasonal or intermittent watercourse, or the valley in which it flows. Samail (#. tu).