KABBABISH (" goatherds ":

See also:

• JAMES
• JAMES (Gr. 'IlrKw,l3or, the Heb. Ya`akob or Jacob)
• JAMES (JAMES FRANCIS EDWARD STUART) (1688-1766)
• JAMES, 2ND EARL OF DOUGLAS AND MAR(c. 1358–1388)
• JAMES, DAVID (1839-1893)
• JAMES, EPISTLE OF
• JAMES, GEORGE PAYNE RAINSFOP
• JAMES, HENRY (1843— )
• JAMES, JOHN ANGELL (1785-1859)
• JAMES, THOMAS (c. 1573–1629)
• JAMES, WILLIAM (1842–1910)
• JAMES, WILLIAM (d. 1827)

James

See also:

• BRUCE
• BRUCE, ALEXANDER BALMAIN (1831-1899)
• BRUCE, JAMES (1930-1794)
• BRUCE, MICHAEL (1746-1767)

Bruce derives the name from Hebsh,

See also:

• SHEEP
• SHEEP (from the Anglo-Saxon sceap, a word common in various forms to Teutonic languages; e.g. the German Schaf)

sheep)  , a tribe of African nomads of Semitic origin . It is perhaps the largest " Arab " tribe in the Anglo-Egyptian Sudan, and its many clans are scattered over the country extending S.W. from the province of Dongola to the confines of Darfur . The Kabbabish speak Arabic, but their pronunciation differs much from that of the true Arabs . The Kabbabish have a tradition that they came from Tunisia and are of Mogrebin or western descent; but while the chiefs look like Arabs, the tribes-men resemble the Beja family . They themselves declare that one of their clans, Kawahla, is not of Kabbabish blood, but was affiliated to them long ago . Kawahla is a name of Arab formation, and J . L . Burckhardt spoke of the clan as a distinct one living about Abu Haraz and on the Atbara . The Kabbabish probably received Arab rulers, as did the Ababda . They are chiefly employed in cattle, camel and sheep breeding, and before the Sudan wars of 1883-99 they had a monopoly of all trans-port from the Nile, north of Abu Gussi, to Kordofan . They also cultivate the lowlands which border the Nile, where they have permanent villages . They are of fine physique, dark with black wiry hair, carefully arranged in tightly rolled curls which cling to the head, with regular features and rather thick aquiline noses .

Some of the tribes

wear large hats like those of the Kabyles of Algeria and Tunisia . See James Bruce, Travels to Discover the Source of the Nile (1790); A . H . Keane, Ethnology of Egyptian Sudan (1884); Anglo-Egyptian Sudan (edited by Count Gleichen, 1905) .