Dawasir

The Dawasir were an Arab tribal confederation based in Wadi al-Dawasir in southern Najd, a valley formerly called al-Aqiq. Their constituent groups included the Al Zayed and Taghlib, with both pastoral and settled communities.

In the eighteenth century the Dawasir supported the emerging first Saudi state, maintaining close ties with the Al Saud through alliance and marriage. In their valley, some tended palm groves and farms while others pastured camels and flocks in the desert.