Saudi historian of the ‘Anazah tribe ‘Abdallah ibn Duhaymish Ibn ‘Abbar al-Fad’aani, whose work I generally value, found a mention of the date of the mass migration of several ‘Anazah tribes from Central Arabia to the Syrian desert (North Arabia, which covers part of Syria and Iraq and Jordan today), in a contemporary Lebanese chronicle, Tarikh al-Amir Haydar al-Shihabi, which was published in Beirut in 1933. I could not find the relevant passage in my edition of this chronicle, so I am taking Ibn ‘Abbar to his word. Says Ibn ‘Abbar, with my rough translation: The book “Lebanon in the era of the Shihab princes, by Prince Haidar Ahmad al-Shihabi, perhaps the only source for events in Bilad al-Sham in the thirteenth century [Hijri]”, mentioned under the events of the year 1230 H (1814 CE) that “great swarms of the tribes of Anazah came out of Najd, escaping drought and difficult conditions; these tribes are the Fad’aan, the Sba’ah and the ‘Amarat; they competed with the ‘Anazah tribes from Dhana Muslim [Ibn ‘Abbar added here: Dhana Muslim being the Wuld ‘Ali, the Manabihah and the Jlass] that preceded them, which led them to collide with each other.” That said, I…