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'Handbook of Yemen' [10v] (25/190)
The record is made up of 1 volume (91 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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(2) The Highlands. —On the mountain ranges and massifs
we find the true mountaineer type, taller and bigger-
limbed than the lowlander and of lighter complexion.
There is no negroid taint in the Yemen hills, but there has
been some amount of intermarriage (confined to the mechan
ical and menial classes) with women of the serf class of
(possibly) Abyssinian or Persian origin.
(3) The Maritime Range, which skirts the Tihamah, is
peopled by a type intermediate between (1) and (2). Here
one observes the swarthy complexion of the plainsmen,
but without any negroid taint, except in the towns and
large settlements, where the tribal types have been merged.
(4) On the Eastern Plateau, towards the south-west edge of
the Great Red Desert, there is a taller race again, showing
every trace of the Ishmaelite immigration, which probably
came from Jauf. These eastward dwellers are known
collectively, by the Yemenis, as Ahl el-Mashriq, and are
feared for their dour fanaticism and fierce impetuous
character.
As in the adjoining province of Hadhramaut, the Arabs
are divided into four main classes, viz. (1) Seyyids or Ashrdf,
descendants of the Prophet, forming; a religious aristocracy ;
(2) tribesmen or Qabeil, belonging to the Qahtan, or
original South Arabian stock, who form the bulk of the
population and are the only class habitually carrying arms ;
(3) the trading classes ; and (4) the servile class, mostly of
mixed African descent and including the Jews.
Religion.
The Central Yemen follows the Zeidi sect, a survival of
Arabian Shiism, called after Zeid a great-grandson of the
Caliph r Ali. It was established in the Yemen by the Imam
Yahya el-Hadi, a.d . 901. Through him the present Imam of
Yemen claims descent from Fatimah, daughter of the Pro
phet. The Zeidists approach the Orthodox Sunni more
nearly, perhaps, than any other Shiah sect. They are, in
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The volume is Handbook of Yemen. Prepared by the Arab Bureau, Cairo , 1st edn, 15 January 1917 (Cairo: Government Press, 1917).
The handbook contains information about Yemen under the following headings:
- Area;
- Physical Character (including Relief and Climate);
- Population;
- Districts and Towns;
- Agriculture and Industries;
- Trade (including Currency, and Weights and Measures);
- Political;
- Yemen Army Corps;
- Tribal Notes;
- Personalities;
- Communications;
- Routes.
The prefatory note states that the handbook had been compiled by Major K Cornwallis and Lieutenant-Commander D G Hogarth, RNVR from information obtained in Cairo (especially about tribes and personalities) and from material prepared for the Arabia Handbook issued by the Admiralty War Staff, Intelligence Division.
The volume contains an 'Outline Map of Yemen' (f 6).
- Extent and format
- 1 volume (91 folios)
- Arrangement
There is a list of contents at the front of the volume (f 5).
- Physical characteristics
Foliation: the foliation sequence commences at 1 on the front cover and terminates at 93 on the inside back cover. The numbers are written in pencil, are circled, 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. This is the system used to determine the sequence of pages within the volume.
Pagination: the volume also has an original printed pagination sequence numbered 2-167 (ff 7-92).
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- 'Handbook of Yemen'
- Pages
- front, back, spine, edge, head, tail, front-i, 2r:5v, 7r:92v, back-i
- Author
- East India Company, the Board of Control, the India Office, or other British Government Department
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