
thumb|right|Sheikh Sattam de Haddadin of Palmyra, by Alexandr Evgenievich Yacovleff.
thumb|right|Sheikh Sattam de Haddadin of Palmyra, by Alexandr Evgenievich Yacovleff.
A sheikhdom or sheikdom () is a geographical area or a society ruled by a tribal leader known as a sheikh (). Sheikhdoms exist almost exclusively within Arab countries, particularly in the Arabian Peninsula (Arab States of the Persian Gulf), with some notable exceptions throughout history (e.g. the Sangage Sheikhdom).
Discovered by embedding cosine similarity (sentence-transformers MiniLM, 384-dim).