قبائل ساحل الإمارات المتصالحة p.79

FO 371/132894 1958
Location.

Shaikhs.

Remarks.

Section (with
singular in
brackets).

Buraimi 8,
Abu Dhabi
Liwa 9.

Shaikh Shakhbut bin
Sultan, Ruler of
Abu Dhabi.

The Ruling family
Al Nahyan come from
this section.

Dubai 270, Shaikh Said bin
Abu Dhabi 40 Maktum, Ruler of

Dubai.

Dubai Ruling family
come from this
section.

Havāmil

Liwa 60, Rashid bin Jabir in
(Hamili)

Abu Dhabi 16, Abu Dhabi (head of
Bura imi 4. Al Mūsa section)

'Abdullah bin Muhammad
bin Ghannam (in
Buraimi), head of Al

'Abdullah bin 'Ali (in
Liwa), head of Al
Hussain section.

Maharibah
(Mahairibi)

Semi-nomadic.

Mazāri'
(Mazrū1)

Liwa 36, Ahmad bin Khalifah
Abu Dhabi 30 bin Suwaidan (in Liwa)
Liwa 112, Maktum bin Rashid (in
Buraimi 20, Liwa), head of Al bu
Abu Dhabi 40, Ruwaishia section.
Dubai 30.

Mohammad bin Sayyah
(in Liwa), head of
Al bu Shik section.

A large section.
Those in Liwa
are almost all
badu.

Shikr.

Hamad bin Mahammad
(head of Al Khana'irah
section in Abu Dhabi
and Buraimi)

Al bu Mahair
(Mahairi)

Abu Dhabi 35, Mant' bin 'Abdullah (in
Buraimi 19, Batin mexx village
Dubai 300, near Abu Dhabi).
Other Coast
Towns 300.

Perhaps not
properly Beni Yas.
(See Al bu Mahair)

Khatam 60.

Saif bin Ma'adhad.

Badu.

Sultan bin Mijrin.

Dubai 100,
Sharjah 15,
Buraimi 12,
Abudhabi 10,
Liwa 7.

Those in Liwa
consider themselves
so close to the
Mazari' as to be
almost indistin guishable from them.

Qubaisat
(Qubaisi)

Liwa 50, Muhammad bin Buti in
Abu Dhabi 20 Abu Dhabi.

The former Shaikh,
Hamid bin Butti, left
for Qatar with a
large part of this
section in 1954.

Qumzan
(Qumuzi)

Dubai 35,
Abu Dhabi 20