Word: bani
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...Persian Gulf led a life little different from the one their ancestors had led since the advent of Islam. During migrations in search of water and trading locations, mainly from the Najd region of what is today the central part of Saudi Arabia, a group of tribes called the Bani Utub settled the town of Kuwait (in simple translation, Little Fort) in the early 1700s. With trade the major source of income, the tribes established a unique political system. Of the three most , influential families, the Khalifas and the Jalahimas concerned themselves with commerce; the third, the Sabahs, governed. Having...