al-'Iad. Built, about 1907, by the Manās ir (Al bū Mundhir).
Now in ruins.al Māriyah al Gharbiyah. Built, about 1912, by a Baluchibuilder on the orders of Shaikh Hamdan bin Za'id.al-Jabbānah. Destroyed by Shaikh Jāsim of Qatar in 1889(!).Khannūr Built by tho Bani Yas, in the early days ofShaikh Shakhbut's reign.Humar. The oldest fort in Liwa, of which only the barest
traces remain.
same
Maugab. Built by Shaikh Sultan bin Za'id. Now in ruins.Qutūf. Built, about 1922, by the Bani Yas.Dhāfir. Built, about 1917, by the Bani Yas.Huwaila or Umm al-Husn. Built by the Manāsir at the timeof the Qatar-Abu Dhabi War (1883-1890).Numail. Built by the Āl bū Falāh, but destroyed by
Shaikh Jāsim at the same time as al-Jabbānah,14. Of the 42 settlements which comprise the oasis(2), not morethan 13 are occupied throughout the year. With unimportantexceptions, the inhabitants are Bani Yas and Manāsir. Tribesmenof the Bani Yas regularly occupy, for at least a part of the year,24 of the 42 settlements, 6 of them exclusively; and they arefound in all the 13 settlements which are generally occupiedthroughout the year. Six of the sections of the tribe contributeto the population of the Liwa settlements - principally the Mazari'
in the west, the Mahāribah and Qubaisāt in the centre, and the
Hawāmil further east. Both the Bani Yas and the Manāsir have lived
together in Liwa for more than 100 years, owning houses and
palm-groves there(3).
/The
See ibid., paragraph
of Part II.
1 From time to time individual estima tes of the number of
settlements in Liwa have varied in small particulars due inpart to there being many tents of damel-hair erected in thepalm-groves, which are only occupied during the date harvest.See Annex to this chapter.
For a table showing the inhabitants of the several Liwasettlements, see Annex at the end of this Chapter.
