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'Handbook of Yemen' [37r] (78/190)
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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- 61
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that their names are commonly linked together by natives
in the Yemen, that they are on terms of close friendship
and have been so for many generations, and that together
they form one of the most powerful tribal bodies in Southern
Arabia. The home country of the Bekil is to the east in
Marashi and Barat, but, as will be seen from the description
given below, there are also tribal units living in the midst
of the Hashid country, and even so far south and west as
Hajjah,
Wadi
A seasonal or intermittent watercourse, or the valley in which it flows.
Shiris, and Mahweit. The Hashid occupy
the country roughly from a few miles north of Amran
almost to Sa'dah and to the west extend almost to Hajur.
To the east they are settled in Bilad el-Kharf and round
Dhibm; but their nomads wander far afield to the north
and towards Barat and Jauf.
For many generations the fortunes of the Hashid wa
Bekil have been intimately connected with those of the
Imams of Yemen, and such must always -be the case, both
on account of common tenets and because some^ of
^the chief strongholds of the Imam, e.g. Sheharah, Qafilat
'Udhr, and Madan, are set in the midst of the Hashid
country. The Imams drew largely on the confederation
for their fighting material, and in return rewarded its chief
men by governorships in different parts of the country.
Thus before the Ottoman conquest, the chief family of
the Himran section of the Hashid ruled all the count n
from Nejran to
Wadi
A seasonal or intermittent watercourse, or the valley in which it flows.
La/a and Kaukeban, and the head
of the Wada/a governed Mekhadir just south of Jiblah.
The leading Bekil Sheikhs were equally powerful and the
family of Awsat held the overlordship of Ibb, Suhul, Udein,
Nadrah, and Ta iz, while the family of Sha if were Emirs
of Hajjah and Zufeir.
The conquest of the Yemen by Mukhtar
Pasha
An Ottoman title used after the names of certain provincial governors, high-ranking officials and military commanders.
in 1^72,
and the consequent restriction of the power of these Sheikhs,
left them with a strong hatred of the Turks and a lasting
desire to regain their lost territories ; and they have alwaj s
taken a leading part in the many revolts against Otto
man authority during the last forty years. They bitterly
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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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