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The oasis of Maḳna belongs to the Fawâjde clan. They dwell in twenty huts, ʻarâješ, of palm leaves and cultivate about fifty date palms and large vegetable gardens. Al-Fawâjde are the remainder of the Beni ʻOḳba tribe, various clans of which migrated during the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, some to the territory of al-Kerak, some to Egypt.

To the south-southwest of al-Ḥamra’ extend the limestone hills of Umm Ḳefa’, Umm Losof, and al-Mesadd, forming the watershed between