'File 8/62 IV PRINCIPAL SHAIKHS & TRIBES OF OMAN.' [‎18r] (35/282)

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EL TI/ JRIYIN.
The majority of the Hajriyin is bedouin, and lives around
El Bidiyah, their capital, in Sharqiyah. Most arc carol
drivers, robbers and warlike. A few enrare in a trade in yhee,
leather and dates which extends to Africa, Zanzibar and India
Like other s haikhs, their
ared about forty, visited
ceived a present of about
Sultan neither he nor his
da ture f or Iraa.mship .
Shaikh Hamdan bin Salira a1 najri,
the Sultan at Muscat in 1948. He re-
Hs . 750/-. Thourh friendly v/ith the
bribe is likely to support his candi-
The tribe is at feud v/ith the Beni bu Ali and El Hishr,
EL HARASIS.
The Haras is are a dwindling tribe of doubtful oririn seldom
encountered except in Dhofar, and in the noirhbourhood of Hadi
al Haqf of oil interest, whore, as Eedtuins, they move about in
small encampments to the borders of the Janabah country on the
mainland West of Masirah. They have their own dialect but
know Arabic. Normally friendly to foreigners they recognise
the Sultan and visit him in Dhofar. They are, however, diffi
cult to deal v/ith as althourh now a small tribe of possibly no
more than a few hundred males, they have several petty Shaikhs.
Their Chief, though only nominally so, appears to bo Sharqi bin
Akas of the Bait Aksit. Other baits or sections are Mutaira,
She.' ia, Qr.dhran, Afari, and Barhauh.
lYHTHARRiS .
The population of the Beni Karras is about two thousand
with not more than four hundred rifles. Their capital is
Jammah in Western Ha.jar, and they also live around Nakhl and
Sainail, Thourh poor they are fairly civilized and peaceable,
enya-'ed mostly in cultivation and donkey drivinp. Their
enemies are the Ma’awal, and allies the Beni Riyam.
Their Tamimah is Zahran bin Mohammad bin Talib, who lives
at Jammah, thou/h tv/o years a r, .o he was head of Askaris at Sor.
Haviny left Muscat Government service he boupht a motor car and
is now runninp it as a taxi between Muscat and Dubai. He
drives himself. He is not liked by the Sultan and is reparded
as unimportant, which he appears to be.
BE NI BIT HASSAN .
The Beni Bu Hassan, though resomblinp bedouins are settled
rainl;; around Baled Bu Hassan in the Jala*an District near Sur.
They are enpamod mostly in the cultivation of dates and camel
drivinp. They number some tv/o thousand and are fairly v/ell
armed with cheap rifles, and are almost perpetually enraged in
potty feuds with their noiphbours, the Beni Bu Ali and the El
Hi shin. Their allies arc the Hajriyin, Hirth and Habua . They
maintain a friendly attitude with the Sultan, but are not likely
to accept him as successor to the present Imam, under whose in
fluence they fall. Their Tamimah is Hamud bin Rashid, aped
about forty, and his control ever them seems o, ood. He visited
the Sultan in 1948 and received. Rs. 75C/-.
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