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'Handbook of Yemen' [31v] (67/190)
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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7.—Manari.
The mercantile tribe of the district between Loheiah and
Hodeidah ; peace-loving and settled. Their chief village
is Munirah ; Seyyid Mohammed en-Nihah is their principal
Sheikh. They come under 'Abdullah
Pasha
An Ottoman title used after the names of certain provincial governors, high-ranking officials and military commanders.
Boni, and
possibly are a section of the Beni Suleil.
8.—Hashabiri.
A small Sunni tribe living a few miles south of the Turkish
post of Zeidiyah east of the Kamaran Islands, and coming
under the jurisdiction of 'Abdullah
Pasha
An Ottoman title used after the names of certain provincial governors, high-ranking officials and military commanders.
Boni. To their
south is the Quhrah tribe. They number between 250 to
300 fighting men. Their chief Sheikhs are Isma'il 'Ah and
Abdullah Mash-hur. Their chief villages are Qariyah,
Dar el-Bahri, and Mahal.
9.—Jarabih.
A small tribe of about 1,000 men settled in
Wadi
A seasonal or intermittent watercourse, or the valley in which it flows.
Sirdud,
whose chief village is Dhahi (Sheikh Yahya 'Izzan). They
number about 400 fighting men and their chief Sheikh is
Hasan Ahmed Es-Sulh. They are under the jurisdiction
of the Kaimakam of Bajil. Their fighting reputation
is good and they are hostile to the Beni Suleil and Quhrah,
their northern and southern neighbours.
10.—Quhrah.
An important tribe on the first stages of the Hodeidah-
k an a road, extending from the sea for about fifty miles
north-east to Hajjeilah.
Their neighbours on the north are the Jarabih, on the
east the tribes of Jebel Harraz and Jebel Bura'a, and on
the south the Absiyah. Between the coast and Bajil,
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- Content
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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- English in Latin script View the complete information for this record
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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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