The Arabic title nāẓir (ناظر, Turkish: nazır[1]) refers to an overseer in a general sense.
[4] The title was used in Egypt for the heads of government departments and agencies before it adopted a modern cabinet system.
[6] In the Anglo-Egyptian Sudan, the title nāẓir al-khuṭṭ was used for the official in charge of a subdivision of a district.
Nāẓir ʿumūm was a traditional and usually hereditary Sudanese title for the head of a tribal confederation.
One of the nāẓir's duties was to administer uncultivated land (qifār) within the tribal homeland (dār).