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MAJABILAH—
One of the divisions of the Shammar Toqah tribe {q. v.) of 'Iraq,
MA J AD A 'AH—
A section of the Bani Malik (II) tribe (j. r.) of 'Iraq.
MAJAGHAMAH—
One of the Sinadah families of the Bani Bu 'Ali tribe (q. v.) of the 'Oman Sultanate
MAJAIRISH—
Some mounds in Mesopotamia, situated about 8 miles (crowlly) from Shaikh Sa'ad
on the Tigris.
MA J ALI—
A section of the Daru' tribe [q. v.) of the 'Oman Sultanate.
MA J ALIB AH—
Singular Majlabi; one of the Hinawi tribes of the 'Oman Sultanate [q. v.).
MAJALIS (M arsa-al)—
An anchorage on the Yemen coast, 6 miles north of Ras Zabld. It is an excellent
boat harbour and lies at the mouth of Wadi A seasonal or intermittent watercourse, or the valley in which it flows. Badu ; it is protected from southerly winds
by a long spit running out in a north-westerly direction from the shore.
When visited by H. M. S. Scout in 1902 cattle at 18 shillings and sheep at 3 shillings per
head were plentiful and the natives were friendly. A thick grove of palm trees extends a
short distance eastward from the anchorage and detached clumps of trees in like manner
to the northward.
MA J i LIS (U mm-al)—
A spring in the Qatlf oasis {q. v.), in eastern Arabia.
MAJAMILAH (R as)—
The northern extreme of a sandbank off the Yemen coast, Red Sea; it is from 3 to
10 feet high and was formerly connected with the mainland by a narrow strip of sand
about 12 miles long in a south-south-easterly direction, thus forming Khor Ghulaifiqah
on its eastern side. The sea has, however, washed an opening through this peninsula
into the khor, about 5| miles southward of the point, through which there is reported to
be as much as 3 fathoms of water.— {R. S. and G. of A. Pilot.)
MAJAMIR (Al)—
A depressed tract in northern Arabia ; it is traversed by Sha'Ib {or Wadi A seasonal or intermittent watercourse, or the valley in which it flows. -al) Hisib
the bed of which is here studded with curious flat-topped mounds. Some of these
mounds, from which the surrounding sand has been washed away, are 40 feet high. The
Majamir tract is crossed by the western (Wallin's ) route between Karbala and Hail,
at a point about one-third of the way from Bir Samlt to the wells of Hazil.— [L<iac,hman,
1910).
MAJAR (or M ijakb)—
A locality on the right bank of the Tigris {q. v.) between 'Amarah and Qal'at Salih .
MAJAR (or M ijarb ) MINSHAD—
A canal on the right bank of the Tigris {q. v.) in the locality of the same name.
MAJAR-AL-KABIR—
A very large reed-hut village of the Al Bii Muhammad tribe in 'Iraq, on the
right bank of the Tigris about 12 miles by water below 'Amarah Town. It is the head
quarters of a"Nahiyah similarly named in the Qadha of 'Amarah and has a bazaar. Maize,
rice and Mash are cultivated ; the land is marshy ; and the only animals kept are buffaloes
and cattle. There are about 40 ah ops.
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