The Bani Qitab (Arabic: بني كتب) is a tribe of the United Arab Emirates (UAE) and Sultanate of Oman. The singular form of the name, Al Ketbi, is a common...

in 1933, Abdulrahman brought the Bani Qitab and Manasir to fight on Sharjah's side. This didn't stop the Bani Qitab, who were paramount across much of...

Bani Kaab, Bani Qitab and Al Bu Falasah. However, the Al Bu Shamis remained generally on good terms with other tribes, particularly the Duru and Bani...

Buraimi. They found themselves under threat in 1905 when the Bedouin Bani Qitab built a fort at Wadi Hatta and started to harass caravans passing through...

Zayed saw in Al Zorah (today part of Ajman) an ideal base for supplying Bani Qitab forces loyal to him in conflicts with the Northern Sheikhs and applied...

Ajman and Ras Al Khaimah as well as mounted fighters from the Na'im and Bani Qitab tribes. Azzan bin Qais was the Imam of Oman between 1868 and 1870, having...

powerful Bani Qitab. This led, in 1905, to his involvement in a dispute which had broken out in the Wadi Hatta between the Na'im tribe and the Bani Qitab. The...

Bani Qitab, and had pushed sections of the Na'im north as far as the Jiri plain. In an area and time of shifting alliances, a century later the Bani Kaab...

Manasir and Bani Hajir Bedouins. At the same time, Zayed sent a force of Manasir and Mazari against Buraimi, an act which led to the Bani Qitab applying...

Masfout and Hajarain (today known as Hatta) in the Wadi Hatta, in which the Bani Qitab tribe had built a fort in the wadi and were stopping caravans passing...