They're just bloody tribal rites.

Tribal and nationalistic differences were discouraged.

You see, now they've actually gone to tribal dynamics.

Loyn has observed in this context that a sea voyage is perilous to tribal institutions, and the apparently tribally based kingdoms were produced in England.

That is in fact what great tribal leaders do.

The tribes that lived there were headed by bi (tribal heads).

Twelve in their ecclesiastical or cultural or tribal attire affirming one message.

However, tribal skirmishes continued, allowing the Abbasids of Baghdad to conquer Oman.

There are many different kinds of dances from tribe to tribe which are usually ritualistic in nature.

Tribal societies in which there are some limited instances of social rank and prestige.

Restoring security in Mali requires dialogues between village and tribal leaders.

If we were to look at all of Africa we could most certainly acknowledge far more, tribal divisions and so forth.

But after Muhammad's passing, the old tribal differences between the Arabs started to resurface.

Ifrits live in a society structured along ancient Arab tribal lines, complete with kings, tribes and clans.

With the assistance of the British, Qaboos bin Said put an end to the Dhofar uprising and consolidated disparate tribal territories.

Mobilization could be readily linked to traditional fighting allegiances of the tribal lashkar (fighting force).

Monarchy was the most common form of government until the 19th century, but it is no longer prevalent.

Human beings were bought and sold by African tribal chiefs, Arab traders and Portuguese and other European traders as well.

Following the Berber Revolt of the 740s, the province was in a state of confusion, with the Muslim community torn by tribal dissensions among the Arabs and racial tensions between the Arabs and Berbers.

They were used a lot in the American Civil War, and continued to be used in modern wars like the Invasion of Iraq.

Many Mozambican slaves were supplied by tribal chiefs who raided warring tribes and sold their captives to the prazeiros .

Local non Mamluk warriors were often more loyal to their tribal sheikhs, their families, or nobles than to the sultan or caliph.

In Leeds, Moore also had access to the modernist works in the collection of Sir Michael Sadler, the University Vice Chancellor, which had a pronounced effect on his development.

In 2010, Iraqi political leaders machinations personal, as well as tribal and sectarian left the country without a government for 249 days.

Some hold a rosy view of the simpler, supposedly more placid lives of tribal hunter gatherers relative to our own.

Even so, Adam and Mohamed say critics accuse them of trying to help regions of the country according to their tribal affiliations.

In areas with a history of tribal warfare, mock fighting contests are held, such as caci in Flores and pasola in Sumba.

In Iraq progressives and socialists assailed traditional political elites (colonial era bureaucrats and landowners, wealthy merchants and tribal chiefs, and monarchists).

The resulting intertribal Musket Wars encompassed over 600 battles between 1801 and 1840, killing 30,000 40,000 Māori.

Rise to power It was in this period that Timur reduced the Chagatai khans to the position of figureheads while he ruled in their name.

The third heritage site, the 400 year old Tawang Monastery in the extreme north west of the state, provides some historical evidence of the Buddhist tribal people.

What strikes me the most is that she sees, even then, the beginnings of the tribal conflicts and the coming contest among Islamists to outdo one another in fundamentalist purity.

Peshawar ( Pēx awar ) (from Old Aryan Sanskrit Purušapura , city of men ) is the capital of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (formerly called the North West Frontier Province), and the administrative centre and economic hub for the Federally Administered Tribal Areas of Pakistan.

Clans of the Yamato Court Many of the clans and local chieftains that made up the Yamato polity claimed descent from the imperial family or other tribal Gods.

Most tribal groups subsisted on a simple hunter gatherer diet, hunting native game and fish and collecting native plants and fruit.

By the 8th century the Mon had pushed north to create city states, known as muang, in Fa Daet (northeast Thailand), Sri Gotapura (Sikhottabong) near modern Tha Khek, Laos, Muang Sua (Luang Prabang), and Chantaburi (Vientiane).

The Act authorized the President to negotiate treaties to buy tribal lands in the east in exchange for lands further west, outside of existing U.S. state borders.

Tribal cultures were formalized into what we would call feudal systems, and many rights and obligations were assumed by the monarchy and related aristocracy.

The 2 minute animation shows how development can rob self sufficient tribal people of their land, livelihood and pride and turn them into beggars.

According to a 2009 estimate, 71.3 of Sierra Leone's population is Muslim, 26.8 is Christian and 1.9 of the population is either animist or follows other religious beliefs.

The ICC's prosecutors claimed that al Bashir masterminded and implemented a plan to destroy in substantial part three tribal groups in Darfur because of their ethnicity.

The establishment of the First Imamate in the 9th century CE was the first step in consolidating disparate Omani tribal factions under the banner of an Ibadi state.

Animism is used in the anthropology of religion as a term for the belief system of some indigenous tribal peoples, especially prior to the development of organized religion.

The building blocks of Genghis' army and his strategy were his tribal levies of mounted archers, scorched earth style methods, and, equally essential, the vast horse herds of Mongolia.

The other 120 seats are assigned to individual candidates, who are likely to be local notables, independents with strong tribal affiliations, and, to a lesser extent, a mix of Islamist and liberal politicians.