242 THE GUHAYNA GROUP iii. 2. vi.

Most of the Kawasma proper are now west of Sennar and on the

Dinder^.

B. 'Arakiin

I. Feragiin The 'Arakiin now claim to be of Sherifi descent^ through a series of

holy men, biographies of whom will be found in the MS. *'D 3." They

cultivate in the south of the Blue Nile Province, in Sennar and in el Ma'atuk

district, and a halo of sanctity still surrounds them. Their headquarters are

at Abu Haraz.

The small subtribe of Feragiin live with the Gamu'ia south of Omdur- man. In Fung days they were under the " nahds" oi Sheikh Hammad

el Nil el 'Araki, and they consider themselves 'ArakiIn on both sides.

C. 'ISAYLAT

1. Widi'ab

2. Sinhayrab^

3. Hasanab

I4. Ma'alia

'5. GabrAb There is a group of villages on the east bank of the Blue Nile called

'Isaylat. By many the 'Isaylat are held to be a section of the Hammada.

D. N6lab

E. Zenafla. a colony of these is said to have lived at Kalkol near

el Kamlin before the coming of the Mahass. But I have also heard them spoken of as "Ghuzz," i.e. Mamliik or Bosnian stock and not Rufa'a at all.

F. Hagagab

G. Beshakira. There is a village on either side of the river in el Kamlin

district called after them.

H. Shibaylat

J. Halawiin These are chiefly in Rufa'a district and Sennar, and are a large and

turbulent section, much /<?^z-ridden. In a list of Arab tribes in Egypt,

east of the Nile, Sir G. Wilkinson includes " Alloween," who are probably

a branch of the same people, between Egypt and Petraea and north of

Sinai. (See Modern Egypt and Thebes, ii, 380.) K. Ferahab

L. Ma'adid. In Rufa'a district and Sennar, M. FARADliN^

N. Faragab. a few live in Kawa district on the White Nile.

^ Several others of the Rufa'a sections given below are often also included as ICawasma : in fact, half the tribe is popularly so considered : the reason is that they were for long under the 'Abdullah chieftainship.

2 Cp. MS. C 9, but for the real facts see D i, ci.

' Corrupted into "Sirhaynab."

* Probably connected with the Ibrahfm ibn 'Abudi el Faradi whose biography

is numbered 135 in D 3.