Khawatir

[3] Following the Saudi withdrawal in 1871, they submitted to Muscat but then became dependent on Zayed bin Khalifa Al Nahyan[4] having been, like the Dawahir, hard pressed by his expansion in the Buraimi/Al Ain Oasis.

[5] This occasional antipathy between the Khawatir (and their allies the Ghafalah) and Qawasim would result in problems for the British oil companies attempting to negotiate concessions and access to the interior.

[8] Lorimer, in 1906, identified some 500 Khawatir living as Bedouin in the Jiri Plain, and these would have been relatively wealthy, with 800 camels, 70 donkeys, 1,500 sheep and goats and 100 cattle.

[9] A further 150 houses of Khawatir were settled at Hafit to the south east of Buraimi, with 900 date palms, 1,000 sheep and goats and 200 camels.

The following year, a settlement conducted by the Na'im chiefs of this issue led to the ascension of the deposed Sheikh of Sharjah, Khalid bin Ahmed Al Qasimi to rule Dhaid.