The Bani Qitab (Arabic: بني كتب) is a tribe of the United Arab Emirates (UAE).[1] The singular form of the name, Al Ketbi, is a common family name in the Northern UAE today.[2] Consisting of a settled southern section and a nomadic northern section, the tribe was long influential in the conduct of affairs in the interior of the Trucial States. The Northern branch mostly settled in the inland towns of Dhaid and Al Falayah.
^Heard-Bey, Frauke (2005). From Trucial States to United Arab Emirates : a society in transition. London: Motivate. p. 65. ISBN 1860631673. OCLC 64689681.
^Heard-Bey, Frauke (2005). From Trucial States to United Arab Emirates : a society in transition. London: Motivate. p. 525. ISBN 1860631673. OCLC 64689681.
The BaniQitab (Arabic: بني كتب) is a tribe of the United Arab Emirates (UAE). The singular form of the name, Al Ketbi, is a common family name in the...
Ajman and Ras Al Khaimah as well as mounted fighters from the Na'im and BaniQitab tribes. Azzan bin Qais was the Imam of Oman between 1868 and 1870, having...
in 1933, Abdulrahman brought the BaniQitab and Manasir to fight on Sharjah's side. This didn't stop the BaniQitab, who were paramount across much of...
Buraimi. They found themselves under threat in 1905 when the Bedouin BaniQitab built a fort at Wadi Hatta and started to harass caravans passing through...
BaniQitab, and had pushed sections of the Na'im north as far as the Jiri plain. In an area and time of shifting alliances, a century later the Bani Kaab...
Masfout and Hajarain (today known as Hatta) in the Wadi Hatta, in which the BaniQitab tribe had built a fort in the wadi and were stopping caravans passing...
Zayed saw in Al Zorah (today part of Ajman) an ideal base for supplying BaniQitab forces loyal to him in conflicts with the Northern Sheikhs and applied...
maintained a similar arrangement at Dhaid). The Tunaij have been linked to the BaniQitab. The Tunaij of Rams were mostly involved in pearl fishing and, during...
powerful BaniQitab. This led, in 1905, to his involvement in a dispute which had broken out in the Wadi Hatta between the Na'im tribe and the BaniQitab. The...
1870 ranged Abu Dhabi, Dubai, Ajman and Ras Al Khaimah – as well as the BaniQitab and Na'im, with the Sultan, but not Umm Al Quwain. Having led a peaceful...
around Buraimi and Abu Dhabi town, fighting with the Manasir, Duru and BaniQitab. By the 1930s, the decline of pearling on the Trucial Coast had led to...
He then pulled together the BaniQitab, Ghafalah, Awamir and Bani Yas in Khatam and placed the Manasir and Mazari Bani Yas in Dhafrah to block the relieving...
Masfout and Hajarain (today known as Hatta) in the Wadi Hatta, in which the BaniQitab tribe had built a fort in the wadi and were stopping caravans passing...
Rashidi, went raiding with the Awamir in 1950 and was captured by the BaniQitab. Hazza's intervention was enough to secure Ghabaishah's release. Hazza...
Bedouin of the Ghafalah, BaniQitab and the Khawatir section of the Na'im, who had been pushed north by their rivals, the Bani Kaab. The plain, together...
Mohammed Ali bin Huwaidan, the headman of the powerful Bedouin tribe, the BaniQitab, who owed their loyalty to the house of Al Mualla and Mohammed Ali travelled...
called to intervene in a conflict between Abu Dhabi and the influential BaniQitab tribe, which had broken out the year before. With the Sheikhs of Umm Al...
Dhaid consisted of some 140 houses, owned by sections of the Tanaij, BaniQitab and Khawatir tribes, including larger houses with mud brick towers. It...
Bedouin tribes of the interior, particularly the warlike Manasir and BaniQitab and his backing was crucial to Sultan's action against Khalid bin Ahmed...
the city to the raiders. Reinforced by the Bani Yas of Dubai (under their Ruler, Hazza) and the BaniQitab, the Na’im were however defeated, retreating...
both the Dhawahir and Awamir. He then pulled together the BaniQitab, Ghafalah, Awamir and Bani Yas in Khatam and placed the Manasir and Mazari in Dhafrah...
Ahmad for help in pacifying the tribes of the interior, particularly the BaniQitab, paying Khalid 1,500 Rupees for his intercession. Khalid ruled over Dhaid...
Interior), Khalid managed to broker an association between the Sheikhs of the BaniQitab and Khawatir Bedouin tribes along with the Ruler of Ras Al Khaimah, which...
Zayed bin Khalifa Al Nahyan saw in Al Zorah an ideal base for supplying BaniQitab forces loyal to him in conflicts with the Northern Sheikhs and applied...
Qawasim stronghold. The city was traditionally dominated by the Tanaij, BaniQitab and Khawatir Bedouin tribes. Dhaid Fort was a key element in the 1920s...
family. Abu Dhabi was home to the Bani Yas tribal confederation; Dubai was settled in 1833 by an offshoot of the Bani Yas, the Al Bu Falasah; Sharjah and...
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