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Below is a partial list of Bedouin tribes and their historic place of origin. Bedouin shepherd in Syrian Desert Bedouins on horseback, 1950s Bedouin camp in Saudi Arabia in the 1970s. Otaibah, located in Najd and Hijaz, found mainly in the Arabian Peninsula in Saudi Arabia, Qatar, Bahrain, Kuwait, and the United Arab Emirates.
The tribes of Arabia were engaged in nomadic herding and agriculture by around 6,000 BCE. By about 1,200 BCE, a complex network of settlements and camps was established. Kingdoms in the southern region of Arabia began to form and flourish. The earliest Arab tribes emerged from Bedouins. [15]
1908 map of the Arab tribes. The Tirabin (Arabic: الترابين), were the most important Arab tribe in the Sinai Peninsula during the 19th century, and the largest inside Negev. Today this tribe resides in the Sinai Peninsula but also in Cairo, Ismailia, Giza, Al Sharqia and Suez, Israel , Jordan, Saudi Arabia and the Gaza Strip. [1]
1908 map of the Bedouin tribes Tel Arad inhabited since 4000 BCE. Historically, the Bedouin engaged in nomadic herding, agriculture and sometimes fishing. They also earned income by transporting goods and people [30] across the desert. [31] Scarcity of water and of permanent pastoral land required them to move constantly.
Their descendants today include the large Al Qubaisat tribe located in United Arab Emirates, Bani Rasheed tribe located in Saudi Arabia, Qatar, Yemen, Kuwait, United Arab Emirates, Oman, Sudan, Eritrea, and Jordan, and the Banu Rawaha located mostly in Oman and the UAE. They are known to be the second strongest tribe after The Prophet's Tribe.
However, these eight tribes account for only a small percentage of the 95 Negev Bedouin tribes documented during the Mandate period. The historical roots of several of the largest tribal confederations of modern times, on the other hand, seem to lie in the Mamluk period, during which a major tribal migration took place.
Beni Ḥassan (Arabic: بني حسان "sons of Ḥassān") is a Bedouin Arab tribe which inhabits Western Sahara, Mauritania, Morocco and Algeria.It is one of the four sub-tribes of the Banu Maqil who emigrated in the 11th century from South Arabia to the Maghreb with the Banu Hilal and Banu Sulaym Arab tribes. [1]
The Bedul (Arabic: البدول, also transcribed Bdul, Badul, Bedoul, B'doul or Budul) are a small Bedouin tribe residing in the vicinity of Petra, Jordan. [1]The origins of the name suggest a possible conversion to Islam at a later period, with scholars proposing Jewish [2] [3] or Nabatean [4] [1] ancestry based on oral traditions.