Sheiks

Dozens of camels race in ’s traditional races every year in the competition also known as the Race of the Sheiks, as most of the animals are owned by the leading families of the Gulf nation.

Due to the lack of a central unifying rulemaker, different sheiks may give different answers to the same question.

However, with the Middle Eastern oil sheiks becoming more aware of the political and economic power of their oil reserves and government threats of rationing, the industry began to consider the North Sea as a viable source of oil.

In 2013 Jack White's Third Man Records teamed up with Document Records to issue The Complete Recorded Works in Chronological Order of Charley Patton, Blind Willie McTell and the Mississippi Sheiks.

The Imam 's position was confirmed when the imam — having gained the allegiance of the tribal sheiks — received the bay'ah (oath of allegiance) from the public.

This leaves an opportunity for the controversial practice of "fatwā shopping", in which an individual asks the same question of different sheiks until they receive an answer they like.