Tribal agency and the translocalization of the Middle East: the European mandates, the Arab Bedouins and the making of the post-Ottoman order

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Where this source is used

• Çiçek argues at the regional Bedouin level that a shaykh risked internal crisis if he disregarded fellow tribespeople’s interests and therefore had to persuade them when government demands conflicted with those interests.

  • supports · pp. 603–604

• Çiçek places the Ruwalla among mobile groups linked through the ʿAnaza genealogy, which actors could mobilize for political alliance; the affiliation did not erase differences among Ruwalla sections or create a single centralized ʿAnaza state.

  • supports · pp. 602–603 and 607–608

• The principal historical studies reconstruct Ruwalla action by cross-reading French and British colonial archives with Arabic newspapers and multilingual private papers, travel accounts, and tribal reference works.

  • supports · p. 601, introduction and source note

• Because the reviewed source base centers official archives and political intermediaries, it does not yet establish how Ruwalla women and non-elite pastoralists described the same decisions.

  • context · p. 601, introduction and source note

• In the 1920s Nuri al-Shaʿlan used control of and access to al-Jawf to negotiate with British and French authorities, Amir Abdullah, King Faisal, and Ibn Saud over winter pasture, mobility, and regional influence.

  • supports · pp. 607–609, section ‘Bedouins, Wahhabism and borders’

• Çiçek finds that mandate and regional governments could not reduce mobile tribal affiliation to ordinary individual nationality and instead developed exemptions and interstate mechanisms that preserved cross-border migration.

  • supports · pp. 602–605 and 613–614

• Ruwalla organization between 1918 and 1936 joined mobile pastoral production, layered kin affiliation, shaykhly representation, and bargaining with rival states under conditions specific to the post-Ottoman border settlement; it is not a stage or template for Arabian, Bedouin, tribal, or confederated government.

  • context · pp. 601–614

• Ruwalla cross-border shaykhly representation during a post-imperial border settlement and Jinst household pasture coordination after collective dissolution involved different actors, scales, institutions, evidence traditions, and state relationships; shared mobility vocabulary does not make them instances of one evolutionary or political type.

  • context · pp. 601–614

• During the post-Ottoman settlement, Ruwalla seasonal movement connected the southwestern Syrian Desert with pasture and water around Wadi Sirhan and al-Jawf across territories claimed by Syria, Transjordan, Iraq, and Ibn Saud.

  • supports · pp. 602–603 and 607–609