Review of the Anizah Tribe
تاريخ النشر: 01/07/2005
الناشر: دار كتب للنشر
نبذة نيل وفرات:The present main nomad divisions of the 'Anizah, the largest Arab tribe in the Middle East, inhabit the Syrian Desert formerly only traversed by camel caravans, but in the last decade become the main route of air and car passengers to the East and the site of Oil Pipe-lines.
Their ...grazing grounds cut across the frontiers of four states, Iraq, Syria, Transjordania, and Nejd, which therefore are liable to become involved in correspondence relating to the tribe, its raids and requirements. As no summary of their organisation or activities exists in a ready and up-to-date form the following review may be of service to those who are becoming concerned with them. For this reason much information of interest but unessential has not been included and only so much as officials may require to know early in their association with the tribe has been here recorded.
Accompanying the report there will be found a glossary of the commoner words of the 'Anizah dialect. In the text therefore only such words as may not have a ready equivalent in English are included, while in the glossary, in addition to them, only words which are especial to desert life or which are known in Arabic of the settled areas, but for which the 'Anizah uses a different word, are included. (None of the 'Anizah talks English and no town Arabs fully understand their dialect, being, on the whole, mutually anti-pathetic).
The appendix includes maps and the important table to show the grouping of the tribe by divisions with the chain of Shaikhly responsibility. إقرأ المزيد