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the other over the Najd of its tributary the Wadi A seasonal or intermittent watercourse, or the valley in which it flows. Dhula' further to the west; the latter
is the more direct.
MISKIT—
A small settlement in Yemen, about half-way between Zabid and Hais ; it is one of a
number of hamlets, with wells, near which the route between these two towns passes.
—(Niebuhr, 1763.)
MISLAQ—
A village lying in a ravine which joins Wadi A seasonal or intermittent watercourse, or the valley in which it flows. Falaij (</. v.), in the Eastern Hajar
district of the 'Oman Sultanate.
MISLAWI—
A tract of country near Wadi A seasonal or intermittent watercourse, or the valley in which it flows. -ar-Rummah {q.v.) and immediately east of Qasim.
MISMA (Jabal)—
A chain of hills running into the Hamad plain {q.v,) of northern Arabia.
MISMA' (Jabal)—
A long sandstone ridge in central Arabia, lying some 90 miles westwards of Hail and
stretching southwards from the Nafud for perhaps 10 miles. On the west side the cliffs
rise abruptly from the plain, while to the east the chain is broken into jagged points ; the
plain below is covered for a distance of several miles with wind-worn pinnacles of sand
stone rising to a height of 50 feet or more. The northern end of Jabal Misma' is known
as 'Aujah. The chain is a landmark for caravans journeying between Tayma and Hail
and can be seen from all the sandhills of the southern Nafud.— {Miss G. L. Bell,
February 1914.)
Jabal Misma', which lies outside the limits of Jabal Shammar proper {q.v.), is a range
of reddish standstone in vertical stratification ; it is crossed by the ordinary route from
Hail to Tayma about 60 miles west of Jabal 'Aja, to which it is approximately parallel,
and it abounds in Aramaean and Himyaritic inscriptions.— { Persian Gulf The historical term used to describe the body of water between the Arabian Peninsula and Iran. Gazetteer.)
MISMAH (Jabal)—
A hill to the eastward of Wadi A seasonal or intermittent watercourse, or the valley in which it flows. Sirhan {q.v.) in north-western Arabia.
MISMAR—
A section of the Southern Shammar tribe {q.v.) of the Dighairat division.
MISR (Bab-al)—
One of the gates of Al-Madinah {q.v.).
MISRA' (Al)—
A section of the 'Ajman tribe {q.v.) of eastern Arabia.
MISS—
A vUlage in Wadi A seasonal or intermittent watercourse, or the valley in which it flows. Tayin {q.v.), in the Sultanate of' Oman.
MISSARA (Al)—
A camping place, in Hejaz, 25 miles fromAl -Wajj on the route to Al-'Ah and near
Jabal Murra.
MISTAH— . _
A section of the Southern Shammar tribe {q.v.) of the Smjarah division.
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