 Aqil 's power base consisted of his tribesmen and alliances with other Bedouin tribes , who inhabited both sides of the Jordan River . Aqil 's brother , Salih Agha , held substantial influence in the Haifa region . Mary Rogers , the sister of the English vice consul , described in detail a banquet in Shefa- ' Amr and a gazelle hunt at the invitation of Salih Agha , while another traveler witnessed the lavish wedding between a son of Salih Agha and a daughter of Agil Agha on " the plains of I 'billin " , in about 1857 . Aqil also married off another of his daughters to a Bedouin sheikh ( chief ) in Gaza , paying the highest dowry registered at the time in Gaza : 11 @,@ 000 piasters . The governor of Hebron was reported to be a brother @-@ in @-@ law of Aqil . 
