Al-Dahāmishah

Overview

Al-Dahāmishah is a section reported within ʿAnazah. The common account enters it under al-ʿAmārāt, which is itself entered under Bishr, so the name sits two levels down in the reported arrangement — and that is exactly where such reports are least stable. What one account makes a section inside a larger one, another sets alongside it at the same level, and this page does not choose between them. The country reported for it is that reported for al-ʿAmārāt: northern Najd and the steppe of Iraq.

This page describes a tribal section as it is reported, and makes no claim about any modern family: no surname, family or house is attributed to it here.

On the name

The classical lexicons and the classical genealogies do not record the name, and this page offers no derivation for it. Where a name is not in the sources, an etymology would be invention rather than report.

On sources

The classical works this reference cites — Ibn Ḥazm's Jamhara, al-Qalqashandī's Nihāyat al-Arab, Yāqūt's Muʿjam al-Buldān and al-Hamdānī's Ṣifat Jazīrat al-ʿArab — do not document this section. The arrangement the name sits in is reported in its present form only from centuries after the latest of those works, and what is said about it comes from later writing and from oral tradition rather than from the sources cited here. This page therefore records the name, the country and the affiliation as they are commonly reported, and does not set out a descent. Where a place is cited below, the citation is for the place, not for the group; and where the lexicon is cited, it is cited for the word, not for the people who carry it.

On lineage

Branch lists and affiliations on this page are given as reported, and those who report them differ among themselves: one account makes a name a division and another makes it a section inside one. Nothing here establishes any living family's descent. A shared name may reflect descent, alliance (ḥilf) or clientage (walāʾ), and the sources say which only when they know.