Bedouin Tribes of the Euphrates Vol 2 - The Search For Mecca

en. XXIV.] Aiiazch Tribes. 191
arc divided into the following- sections, cacli
under command of its own Sheykh :
TBNTS.
GomUbssa. Beteyen ibn Mcrshid ... 1000
Remlliii ... ... ... -,00
Abadiit ... ... ... ;,()()
Dvcim ... ... ... r»00
Menekha. Ibn Kardiish 500
Modyuja. Ferhan ibn Hedeb 500
Ammamt ... ... 500
N. B.—The Mmah, Sheykh jMohammed, is a section of the
Eesallin.
3. Ihn Hdddal, a numerous and po^vcrful tribe, whose
Sheykh, Abd ul Mekhsin ibn Heniasdi, is considered
the noblest in point of blood of any in
the desert {Ibn Meziad of the Hesenneh only
excepted).* They are rich and powerful and
TENTS.
possess numerous mares 4000
4. Hesenneh. Once the leading tribe of the Anazeh,
but destroyed by a combination against them
about sixty years ago of the Sebaa and the Roala.
The family of their Sheykh, Faris ibn Meziad, is
accounted the noblest in point of blood of any
in the desert. The tribe now lives under Turkish
protection near Damascus, and number perhaps 500
5. Roala, or Jeldas. The most numerous, wealthiest,
and most powerful tribe of the Anazeh. Though
the whole tribe is generally known as
the Rodla,
this name only properly applies to a single section.
The family of their Sheykh, Sotamm ibn
Shaalan, is the most important, tliough not the
most ancient, in the desert. In it the slieykhdom
* The Ibn Haddal and the Sebaa according to Burckhardt wore
originally part of one same tribe called the Bishar, whence probably
the name Jebel Bishari below Deyr.