Editing Bedouin (section)

===Jordan===
[[File:Bedouinnasserwadirum.jpg|thumb|A young Bedouin lighting a camp fire in [[Wadi Rum]], Jordan]]
[[File:Hijazeen.jpg|thumb|A significant percentage of Jordanian Christians are ethnically Bedouin, the picture shows a Bedouin Christian family belonging to the Hijazeen tribe in [[Karak]] in 1895]]Most of the Bedouin tribes migrated from the Arabian Peninsula to what is [[Jordan]] today between the 14th and 18th centuries.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.jordanbeauty.com/Nomads.html|title=Bedouin Culture in Jordan|access-date=19 October 2015}}</ref> They are often referred to as a backbone of the Kingdom,<ref name="UNHCR">[https://archive.today/20130416022509/http://www.unhcr.org/refworld/publisher,MRGI,,JOR,4954ce4ec,0.html World Directory of Minorities and Indigenous Peoples - Jordan : Overview. Peoples], [[UNHCR]] report, 2007</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.brendasjordan.com/about/general-information/bedouin|title=Brenda's Jordan|access-date=19 October 2015|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151101163014/http://www.brendasjordan.com/about/general-information/bedouin/|archive-date=1 November 2015}}</ref> since Bedouin clans traditionally support the monarchy.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-14636308|title=Jordan profile - Leaders|work=BBC News|date=3 February 2015|access-date=19 October 2015}}</ref>

Most of Jordan's Bedouin live in the vast wasteland that extends east from the Desert Highway.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.kinghussein.gov.jo/people1.html |title=The People of Jordan |website=kinghussein.gov.jo |access-date=19 October 2015}}</ref> The eastern Bedouin are camel breeders and herders, while the western Bedouin herd sheep and goats. Some Bedouin in Jordan are semi-nomads, they adopt a nomadic existence during part of the year but return to their lands and homes in time to practice agriculture.

The largest nomadic groups of Jordan are the Bani Hasan (Mafraq, Zarqa, Jarash, Ajloun and parts of Amman) [[Bani Sakher|Bani Ṣakher]] (Amman and Madaba) Banū Laith (Petra), and [[Howeitat|Banū al-Ḥuwayṭāt]] (they reside in [[Wadi Rum]]).{{citation needed|date=January 2018}} There are numerous lesser groups, such as the al-Sirḥān, Banū Khālid, Hawazim, ʿAṭiyyah, and Sharafāt. The Ruwālah (Rwala) tribe, which is not indigenous, passes through Jordan in its yearly wandering from Syria to Saudi Arabia.<ref>{{cite web |title=Jordan |website=[[Encyclopædia Britannica Online]] |date=6 May 2024 |url=https://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/306128/Jordan/256320/Languages#toc23343}}</ref> The region encompassing [[Wadi Musa]] and Petra is inhabited by the prominent Liyathnah tribe alongside the smaller [[Bedul]] community, believed to have [[Jews|Jewish]] or [[Nabataeans|Nabataean]] ancestry.<ref name=":42">{{Cite journal |last=Simms |first=Steven |date=1996 |title=The Bedul Bedouin of Petra, Jordan: Traditions, tourism, and an uncertain future |url=https://www.researchgate.net/publication/287496244 |journal=Cultural Survival Quarterly |volume=19 |issue=4 |pages=22–25}}</ref><ref name=":02">{{Cite book |last=Peake |first=Frederick Gerard |url=https://archive.org/details/McGillLibrary-rbsc_isl_history-trans-jordan-tribes_DS1544B551934_vol1-5254/page/n117/mode/2up |title=A history of Trans-Jordan and its tribes |year=1934 |volume=1 |publisher=Unknown publisher|location=Amman |pages=109}}</ref><ref name=":322">{{Cite book |last=Ben-Zvi |first=Itzhak |author-link=Yitzhak Ben-Zvi |title=שאר ישוב: מאמרים ופרקים בדברי ימי הישוב העברי בא"י ובחקר המולדת |publisher=none |year=1967 |location=תל אביב תרפ"ז |pages=374–378 |language=Hebrew |trans-title=She'ar Yeshuv}}</ref> The Hijazeen are a Christian Bedouin tribe located in Jordan with roots in the [[Hejaz]] of present-day Saudi Arabia.<ref>{{cite web|title=تقرير خاص لقناة العربية نيوز يتعلق بتاريخ عشيرة الحجازين و الطابع البدوي للعشيرة قبل إعلان إمارة شرق الاردن (المملكة الأردنية الهاشمية) .|url=https://www.facebook.com/watch/?v=1626225610747190|access-date=24 April 2025}}</ref>

The Jordanian government provides the Bedouin with different services such as education, housing and health clinics. However, some Bedouins give it up and prefer their traditional nomadic lifestyle.

In the recent years, there is a growing discontent of the Bedouin with the ruling monarch [[Abdullah II of Jordan]]. In August 2007, police clashed with some 200 Bedouins who were blocking the [[Highway 15 (Jordan)|main highway]] between Amman and the port of Aqaba. Livestock herders were protesting the government's lack of support in the face of the steeply rising cost of animal feed and expressed resentment about government assistance to refugees.<ref name="UNHCR" />

[[Arab Spring]] events in 2011 led to demonstrations in Jordan, and Bedouins took part in them. But the [[Hashemites]] did not see a revolt similar to turbulence in other Arab states. The main reasons for that are the high respect to the monarch and contradictory interests of different groups of the Jordanian society. The King Abdullah II maintains his distance from the complaints by allowing blame to fall on government ministers, whom he replaces at will.<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2011/02/05/world/middleeast/05jordan.html |title=Jordan Faces a Rising Tide of Unrest, but Few Expect a Revolt |first=Ethan |last=Bronner |newspaper=[[The New York Times]] |date=4 February 2011}}</ref>