This article analyzes the socio-economic and political transformation of the Banu Sakhr tribe in the territory of Transjordan. The study examines the tribe’s historical position during the Mamluk and Ottoman periods, its traditional economic system based on camel herding in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, and the changes that occurred during the British Mandate period. It analyzes the weakening of the traditional camel-based economy as a result of increased state control, restrictions on mobility, drought, and changes in pastoralism, as well as the development of sheep herding and other forms of labor and the tribe’s integration into the state system.

Banu Sakhr, Transjordan, Bedouins, tribe, state-building, state–tribe relations, migratory mobility, tribal integration, British Mandate, socio-economic transformation.

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