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'Handbook of Yemen' [51r] (106/190)
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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'Ali Ibn el-Hadi (Sherif).
Of Sa'dah; of the important Hadi house. The family is
paid by the Imam to be friendly to himself, and anti-Turk.
'Ali Ibn Isma'il (Sherif).
Of Huth; of the ! Abd el-Kerim house of Kaukeban,
and son of an Emir of Kaukeban. La'a, Shibam, Thalah,
and Tamlah, who died as a prisoner of Mukhtar
Pasha
An Ottoman title used after the names of certain provincial governors, high-ranking officials and military commanders.
.
The son moved to Huth. He leads the Ashraf of Huth
in hostility to the Imam.
'Ali Ibn Isma'il (Seyyid).
Of Doran ; of the Yahya Ibn Hamza house, and now
the Imam's agent with the local Emir. Formerly exiled
to Rhodes for seventeen years by Ahmed Feizi
Pasha
An Ottoman title used after the names of certain provincial governors, high-ranking officials and military commanders.
.
'Ali Nasir el-Kamarani.
Of Mawiyah, a holy man of much religious influence,
and friend of Sheikh Mohammed Nasir Muqbil (q.v.);
used by the latter and the Aden Government as inter
mediary ; was instrumental in making an agreement between
the Sheikh and Aden in February 1915. Now reported a
prisoner at San'a.
f Ali Sa'id (
Pasha
An Ottoman title used after the names of certain provincial governors, high-ranking officials and military commanders.
).
Commander of the 39th Ottoman Division at Ta'iz, and
now O.C. the expeditionary force in the Aden hinterland.
A clever Circassian. Has been in great difficulties in his
attempt to blockade Aden, and has summoned tribes, e.g.
the Fadhli, to his help, and then had to expel them again
and recall the arms served out. He has shown himself a
stout-hearted soldier, who was in no way dismayed by
the Sherifial revolt or his own isolation. Not on good
terms with Mahmud Nazim
Pasha
An Ottoman title used after the names of certain provincial governors, high-ranking officials and military commanders.
or the Imam.
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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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- Title
- '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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- Open Government Licence