The Role of the Bedouin Tribes in the Jordanian Desert in Establishing the Emirate of East Jordan

Assistant Professor Dr. Muhamad Eimad Radif (pp. 1–20)

                        Tikrit University – College of Education for Women

Abstract

The Jordanian state community is a pre-originated society, as at the beginning of its formation it depended on the tribe as a basis for the social, economic and political organization, and the Bedouin tribal system can be considered an important historical stage in the emergence of the Emirate of East Jordan. The Jordanian tribes contributed to developing the economic and political reality of Jordan, as the Bedouin tribes represented the main supporters of the Jordanian state and its development, by contributing to the legislative and executive state institutions, and working to provide internal security and restrict external attacks through the supervision of the tribal sheikh on the application of the law, represented in a group of norms and traditions. The tribal sheikh supervised the implementation of punishments for individual violators, and after the Bedouin tribes merged into the Jordanian state, their mission was limited to informal social control. The people of the Bedouin tribes in the Jordanian desert sacrificed to uphold the pillars of the Jordanian state and offered everything to establish the Emirate of East Jordan and secure the stability of the Hashemite monarchy. This research seeks to clarify the role of the Bedouin tribes in the Jordanian desert in establishing the East Emirate of Jordan.

Keywords: Tribes, Jordan, Bedouin, Desert, Hashemite