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'Handbook of Yemen' [35v] (75/190)
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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tribes, and south by Bekil nomads. At present they are on
had terms with the Imam, They are quite independent and
will fight for any one who pays them. Their chief Sheikh
is Sherif Salih Ibn c Ali. They are of the same stock as
the Hamdan el-Yemen (No. 61), but are too far off to be in
touch.
30.—Yam.
The \ am tribes form a powerful confederation, stretching
from the northern boundary of the Bekil in Barat up
Wadi
A seasonal or intermittent watercourse, or the valley in which it flows.
Nejran and
Wadi
A seasonal or intermittent watercourse, or the valley in which it flows.
Habunah far to the north in the
direction of Tathlith and
Wadi
A seasonal or intermittent watercourse, or the valley in which it flows.
Dawasir.
Joseph Halevy, the only European who has visited their
country, found it in 1870 a fertile and productive region
inhabited^ by a well-to-do population. In religion they
are Isma'iliyah and are known to the rest of Yemen as
the Mutazeilah or isolated sect; but, since
Wadi
A seasonal or intermittent watercourse, or the valley in which it flows.
Nejran
was the last refuge of Christianity and has remained far
removed from external influence, it is possible that the
Isnia ih creed contains traces of the ancient worship,
Halevy was not long enough in the country to verify this
suppos^ion, but the tolerance and even favour which he
found extended to the Jews in Makhlaf were hardly in the
spirit of strict Mohammedanism. The religious chiefs
are probably more orthodox than the bulk of the inhabitants,
since they are m communication not only with the chief
he^d' 8, 0 f>men , but with the Agha Khan, their spiritual
The ruling family is that of Makrami, descended from
a famous ancestor who, in the middle of the eighteenth
century, preached his reforming Gospel from Nejran toHasa.
About the middle of the nineteenth century they developed
meas of expansion, and in I860 obtained from the Imam
TW + Emirate of Heimah, Harraz, and Menakhah.
ho y i ever ' was ^ort lived, for, in 1872, they
re defeated and banished to their own country by Mukhtar
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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'
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- 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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