ʿAwamir

The ʿAwamir ( Arabic عوامر, DMG ʿAwāmir ), singularعامري / ʿĀmirī , are a Bedouin tribe and villagers in southern and eastern Arabia . Although the subgroups of the gruppenAwamir have little contact with one another, they are well aware of their relationship and ancestry. The descendants living to the east are predominantly nomadic . The members of the'Awamir mostly belong to the schafiitischen or Hanbali at law school, eastern'Awamir are Ibadites .

Geographical distribution

The tribe is divided into three main groups, which are geographically distributed as follows:

• al-Qaff between the southern edge of the ar-Rubʿ al-Ḫālī and the Wādī Ḥaḍramaut
• southern aẓ-Ẓafra between Qatar and al-Buraymī
• Oman

literature

• S. Miles: The Countries and Tribes of the Persian Gulf . London 1919, p. 33, 245 .
• RL Headley: ʿ Awāmir . In: Encyclopaedia of Islam . 2nd Edition. tape I . Brill, Leiden 1960, ISBN 90-04-16121-X , pp. 759 ( online [accessed March 2, 2015]).