( Arabic : العوذلي ‎ al-ʿAwdhalī or العواذل al-ʿAwādhal ), or the Audhali Sultanate (Arabic: سلطنة العوذلي Salṭanat al-ʿAwdhalī ), was a state in the British Aden Protectorate . It was a founding member of the Federation of Arab Emirates of the South in 1959 and its successor, the Federation of