Secondly, most families of the Bani Yas had some members living permanently in Abu Dhabi town, so that all the sections mixed there easily at all times | Many of its members owned goats or sheep, which kept them close to home |
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" One of the historical striking characteristics of the Maktoums has been their accessibility to locals, and their openness to trading with the outside world Other sections of the Bani Yas tribe include the Rumaithat, which depended largely on fishing and pearling, as did the Al Bu Mahair | They owned a small fleet of 40 pearling boats |
The Qubaisat section was one of the largest tribes settled in the communities of the Liwa oasis.
21Making up much of the permanent or semi-settled population of the villages of the Liwa oasis was the Hawamil section | First of all, the subsections and allied groups did not live separate existences; they shared, mingled and intermarried in the villages of the Liwa, they had arrangements by which the nomads of one section cared for the camels of another section, and those who had no pearling boats of their own went on the boats of others" |
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Its origin can be traced back to Yas Bin Amer, whose tribe came from the tribe of Nizar bin Mayid bin Adnan | The Maharibah section, like the Hawamil, comprised both nomadic and settled members and many of its families were involved in the pearling industry |
The most numerous and significant tribe of the UAE, the Bani Yas is made up of approximately 20 subsections, originally centered in the Liwa oasis | The Al Maktoum family, a part of the highly regarded Al Bu Falasah section of the Bani Yas, continues to rule Dubai to this day |
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Members of the Mazrui, the main Bedouin section of the Bani Yas, also lived in the settlements of the Liwa | The Al Bu Falah were the first to acquire property in the Buraimi oasis, and the members of the ruling family have systematically continued this policy until now |