They are of fine physique, black with dark wiry hair, carefully arranged in tightly rolled curls which cling to the head, with regular features and rather thick aquiline noses. Some of the tribes wear large hats…
-Encyclopedia Britannica, 1911 Edition, entry for Kababish
I didn’t see any large hats in Dar al-Kababish, not cowboy, neither kepi nor ch’ullu, but plenty of turbans, for which Lane gives the word ‘Imāma, as in the example, Arkhā ‘Imāmatahu, He Loosened His Turban, or figuratively, He Felt at Ease. Only then did I see that KhairAllah was becoming Asla’, Bald, which Lane gives in a secondary meaning as, A Tree whose Leaves have been Easten by Camels.