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'Personalities, Arabia' [184] (188/374)
The record is made up of 1 volume (185 folios). It was created in 1917. It was written in English. The original is part of the British Library: India Office The department of the British Government to which the Government of India reported between 1858 and 1947. The successor to the Court of Directors. Records and Private Papers Documents collected in a private capacity. .
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184
(g) Al Weiman. 400 men.
Mohammed ibn Musa'idi.
Chief villages :—
Dafan
Wadi
A seasonal or intermittent watercourse, or the valley in which it flows.
Kheishah
Abu Shenlah.
Abu Hanash.
Nomads :—
Al Weilah
Mohammed ibn Mush an.
Al Yazid esh-Sha'af. 150 men living in Shahran country.
Yahya ibn Hadir.
Clans are :—
Al M'alaf
Al Ham am
Al Ba'wal
Sa'd ibn Tali.
Mohammed Abu Hamamah.
Sheikh Sudan.
28. Munjahah.
The MUNJAHAH occupy the sea-coast and a few miles inland from
just south of Birk almost to Shuqaiq, and are bounded on the north by the
Beni Hilal, east by the Rijal el-M'a, and south by the tribes of Mikhlaf
el-Yemen. They muster about 6,000 men, of whom five-sixths are
nomads. The villagers live in the small ports of Wasm, Wahlah, and
Khasa'ah. They have a little cultivation and a few date-trees, and eke out
their existence by acting as porters in their own villages and at Birk.
These places, though small, are important as being the chief inlets for
arms and ammunition, a trade which is chiefly in the hands of the Rijal
el-M'a. Idrisi stations his port officers at them, but the Rijal el-M'a, who
treat with him as equals rather than subjects, refuse to recognize his
right to tax them, and he does not press the point. Ihe Munjahah,
however, all pay him taxes, Sheikh Hasan Faslkh being deputed to
collect them.
The nomads are fairly well off in sheep and camels. They are fisher
men and sell dried fish in the interior. They also export dom nuts to
Musawwa'.
Their reputation is very evil, and even their guests sleep with their
rifles by their sides. Their solemn oath has no meaning for them, and
they are notorious for their treachery. Before Idrisi reduced them
to order they were slave-dealers and kidnappers, highwaymen and sea
pirates, and used to raid right up to Muha'il and Barak.
They do not dare now to commit more than an occasional robbery or
murder, for the Idrisi's police are always stationed in their country and
punish severely any attempt to return to the old way of living.
They are disliked by all the surrounding tribes, but in ordinary times
they wander out of their country to the Bahr Ibn Sekeinah and Beni Hilal.
They do not go south of Shuqaiq at all, having no wish to come into closer
contact with Idrisi than is necessary.
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The volume is Personalities, Arabia (Admiralty War Staff Intelligence Division, April 1917).
The volume is an official report on prominent Arab individuals and Arab tribes in the Arabian Peninsula and other parts of the Middle East. The volume contains personal, historical and genealogical information on ruling families, individual members of ruling families, and other prominent individuals (including commercial firms and merchants) within the regions numbered I-VII below; and ethnographic information on the Bedouin tribes and sedentary tribes (divided into four geographical groupings). The regions and groupings are as follows:
- I Hejaz (folios 4-13);
- II Asir (folios 13-23);
- III Yemen (folios 23-32);
- IV Aden and Hadhramaut (folios 33-37);
- V Gulf Coast (folios 37-43);
- VI Central Arabia (folios 44-50);
- VII Syrian Desert and Sinai (folios 51-53);
- The Bedouin Tribes (folios 53-76);
- Sedentary Tribes of The North-West (folios 77-80);
- Sedentary Tribes of The West (folios 81-125);
- Sedentary Tribes of The South (folios 125-165);
- Sedentary Tribes of The Centre (folios 166-169).
The volume includes a 'Tribal Map of Arabia' on folio 184.
- Extent and format
- 1 volume (185 folios)
- Arrangement
There is a list of contents on folio 3v. There is an index to the volume on folios 170-183.
- Physical characteristics
Foliation: the foliation sequence commences at 1 on the front cover and terminates at 186 on the last folio before the back cover. The numbers are written in pencil, are enclosed in a circle, and appear in the top right hand corner of the recto The front of a sheet of paper or leaf, often abbreviated to 'r'. page of each folio. The following folio needs to be folded out to be examined: folio 184. This is the system used to determine the order of pages.
Pagination: the volume also contains an original printed pagination, numbered 4-362 (folios 4-183).
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- IOR/L/PS/20/C131
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- 'Personalities, Arabia'
- Pages
- front, front-i, i-r:i-v, 1:364, ii-r:iii-v, back-i, back
- Author
- East India Company, the Board of Control, the India Office, or other British Government Department
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