What does qaid mean?
Qaid means Alternative spelling of caid..
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Pronunciation varies by accent · noun
Alternative spelling of caid..
It would be more difficult to remove a qaid who had a diploma. Unreliable and corrupt qaids were certainly removed from time to time but they were always hard to control because they knew their areas far better than officers of the Affaires Indigènes did, and easily dominated the jemaas.
For that, they had a much more convincing and powerful interlocutor, one of the four qaids himself. The man who offered to lead the Normans into Sicily was Ibn Timnah, the Qaid of Syracuse.
According to Hermassi, all the qaids were appointed by the bey, whereas De Montety describes some of them as tribal notables whose position was ratified by the center.
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Qaid means Alternative spelling of caid..
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It would be more difficult to remove a qaid who had a diploma. Unreliable and corrupt qaids were certainly removed from time to time but they were always hard to control because they knew their areas far better than officers of the Affaires Indigènes did, and easily dominated the jemaas.
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