Nomadic tribal shaikhs held hereditary claims to sacred objects

Evidence

Works such as these, and there were many, could well have gathered dust on the shelves of the administrators’ own libraries were it not for the fact that their jobs turned such explorations of Sudanese identity into political realities. For example, when his influential works were published, MacMichael was the district commissioner of Kordofan and responsible for settling tribal land claims, distributing government funds, and supervising the secular education of young Sudanese within his jurisdiction. His conclusions about the identities of the Sudanese played a large role in how they were included by his government. Fortunately, as the scholar Abdullahi Ali Ibrahim claims, MacMichael actually paid attention to local genealogies and what historical and cultural identities Sudanese tribes ascribed to themselves; but other officials were not always so thoughtful. — Eve M. Troutt Powell, A Different Shade of Colonialism_…, 838 (#complicates, via linked claim)

Since Bantu thought is ontological, the Bantu only ask for satisfaction of an ontological nature. Decent wages! Comfortable housing! Food! These Bantu are pure spirits, I tell you: “What they desire first of all and above all is not the improvement of their economic or material situation, but the white man’s recognition of and respect for their dignity as men, their full human value.” — Aimé Césaire, Discourse on Colonialism, 144 (#complicates, via linked claim)

Through all these changes, the dynastic principle and the practice of hereditary succession remained powerful, deep-rooted, and virtually universal in the Islamic Middle East. Even in the nomadic tribes, the shaikh is normally chosen from among the members of one family, who have a recognized hereditary claim to the headship of the tribe and very often to the custody of some sacred place or object—the palladium or ark of the covenant, so to speak. — Bernard Lewis, From Babel to Dragomans, 537 (#corroborates, via linked claim)

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Sudanese tribes interpreted the expedition within their own religious frameworks; A scholar claimed African tribal religions derived from pre-exilic Hebrew worship — Ivan Davidson Kalmar, Derek Penslar, Orientalism and the Jews, 958; Hereditary succession persisted even among nomadic Middle Eastern tribes — Bernard Lewis, From Babel to Dragomans: Interpreting…, 537 (+14 more)

Broader Connections

• Hereditary succession persisted even among nomadic Middle Eastern tribes #corroborates (1.00) — Bernard Lewis, From Babel to Dragomans, 537
• Colonizers use the colonized’s own spirituality to deny them material claims #complicates (1.00) — Aimé Césaire, Discourse on Colonialism, 144
• Colonial ethnographic findings shaped tribal land claims and fund distribution #complicates (1.00) — Eve M. Troutt Powell, A Different Shade of Colonialism_…, 838
• Sudanese tribes interpreted the expedition within their own religious frameworks #complicates (0.95)
• Claims of sacred land ownership secure one group’s dominance over others #expands (0.95) — Nadim N. Rouhana and Nadera Shalhoub-Kevorkian, When Politics Are Sacralized, 120
• Executing religious sheikhs over inheritance law inflamed Somali Islamic identity #complicates (0.95)
• Colonial states museumized sacred sites to legitimize themselves as guardians of tradition #complicates (0.95) — Benedict Anderson, Imagined Communities, 673
• A scholar claimed African tribal religions derived from pre-exilic Hebrew worship #complicates (0.90) — Ivan Davidson Kalmar, Derek Penslar, Orientalism and the Jews, 958
• Refusing to recognize Indigenous domination-claims rendered their lands legally vacant #complicates (0.90) — Doctrine of Discovery Project, The Marshall Trilogy, 28
• Weak formal institutions strengthened Somali lineage elders and clanship #complicates (0.90)
• Israeli state archaeology functions to legitimize an exclusive claim to the land #complicates (0.90) — David Theo Goldberg, The Threat of Race, 627
• Colonial law segregated Bedouins into a distinct tribal legal category #complicates (0.85) — Gil Anidjar, The Jew, the Arab, 788
• Islamic governance once rested on tribal-group trust. #complicates (0.85) — Diego Gambetta, Trust - Making and Breaking Cooperative…, 2059
• Colonial labour schemes restructured Somali social organization by tribe and origin #complicates (0.80)
• Caste derives authority from shastras believed to be divinely commanded #complicates (0.80) — Ambedkar, B R, Annihilation of Caste_ The Annotated…, 956