Borders in Motion: Bedouin Tribes and Territoriality in the Post-Ottoman Middle East, 1918–1936

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Where this source is used

• 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 · repository abstract, paragraphs 8–10

• 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 · repository abstract, paragraphs 8–10

• 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 · repository abstract, paragraphs 3–12

• Stocker’s English scholarly classification does not by itself establish how every Ruwalla member self-identified or define a universal Bedouin, tribal, or confederated political type.

  • context · repository abstract, paragraphs 3–4

• Stocker interprets Ruwalla political action as seeking influence, mobility, and access across the collective’s historical resource area, or dīra, rather than exclusive territorial sovereignty.

  • supports · repository abstract, paragraphs 7–8

• Stocker identifies the Al Shaʿlan family as political representatives of Ruwalla collectives and describes the mashyakha as the institutionalized position of paramount shaykh.

  • supports · repository abstract, paragraphs 5–6

• Stocker names the historical collective Ruwalla and classifies it as a camel-breeding Bedouin tribe in the southwestern Syrian Desert.

  • supports · repository abstract, paragraphs 3–4