"كُتيّب اليمن" [و‎‎٥‎٥] (١٩٠/١١٤)

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(once in the Customs); but persona grata to the Imam.
A swarthy Syrian, corpulent, but energetic and a good
administrator. Quarrelled with Idrisi in 1912, and renoun
ced further relations with him. His son, Shehat Effendi
(by his first wife, a Syrian), is, or was, a Lieutenant in
39th Nishanji at Suq-el Khamis. He has no children by his
second (Circassian) wife. He was superseded in the summer
bjtkM of 1915 by Sa'id Pasha {q.v., or by Ahmed Tewfik Pasha ?)
on account of his disapproval of the attack on Aden. But
in early autumn he was reinstated and awarded the war
medal in gold, his maintenance in his position having
proved a condition of friendly relations between the
, of Saul Turks and the Imam. He is not on good terms with 'Ali
brotkofii) Sa'id Pasha {q.v.) or, probably, with the O.C. Yemen.
, Makrami, Isma ; il (El).
ks.
Chief of the Beni Yam and Emir of Nejran. Has two
brothers, Mohammed and Hasan. All are of the Isma/iliyah
sect of the Shiah, and own, in theory, the supremacy of the
tkGUifc Agha Khan, with whom they maintain some communica-
upporteis of Si tion. The family, which is descended from Sheikh Makrami,
the Nejran reformer of the eighteenth century, formerly
held the Emirate of Heima, Harraz, and Menakhah, but it
lost these places to the Turks in 1872. Isma il, with his
tribe, favours Idrisi and is opposed to the Imam.
Mareb (Sherifs of).
The place, rather than the ruler, governs the policy.
The actual Sherif is Mohammed Ibn 5 Abd er-Kahman Ibn
Husein, a man of about fifty, an Ottoman vassal with the
courtesy title of Emir. He comes of the same stock as the
Sherifs of Harib and Behan el-Jezab. He is said to be
Anglophil. He was at San'a in August 1913, receiving
treatment for two gunshot wounds received in a skirmish
i with the local Seyyid faction, with whom the Mareb Sherifs
lisisl are at constant feud.