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'Handbook of Yemen' [28r] (60/190)
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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though abortive betrayal of San 5 a to the Turks in 1849 by
the Imam Mohammed Yahya. The direct influence of
the Imams is confined almost entirely to the Zeidist districts
of Yemen. On the coast and in the highlands of the Aden
hinterland, where the population is predominantly Sunnite
of the Shafe'i school, it goes for little or nothing. The office
is elective, like the Ibadhi Imamate in Oman ; but, in
practice, a son of the last Imam is usually, and a scion of the
original Rassite stock is invariably, preferred. In recent
elections there has been a good deal of intrigue and substitu
tion of one house for another. The Qasim family of Sheha-
rah is at present in power ; but other houses, e.g. the Hadi
Lidin Allah and the Shehari, hold themselves equally
entitled to it. Once elected, the Imam becomes essentially
a sacred personage, and for some generations back, the
holder of the title has lived more or less in seclusion, a
mysterious being, little seen by the people, though, behind
the veil, more than one Imam has been notoriously addicted
to very secular vices. To this Shiite conception of their
office the Imams owe it that they have never obtained the
dominant position among Moslems, accorded to the Alids
of Mecca.
Recent Politics.
Yahya Hamid ed-Din el-Mutawakkil Ibn Mohammed
el-Mansur Ibn Yahya Hamid ed-Din, who has been ruling
Imam since 1904, is now (1916) about forty years of age. He
is a short thick set man of fair complexion. When he accepted
ijvice instw a mediatized status in 1913, and Khamir became the Imamite
capital, he took up his residence in the fortress of Sheharah,
north-east of that town, and admitted Turkish garrisons both
stablisli®® 1 there and at Khamir. Having become friendly with Mahmud
i in the earl, 1 Nazim
Pasha
An Ottoman title used after the names of certain provincial governors, high-ranking officials and military commanders.
after c Izzet
Pasha
An Ottoman title used after the names of certain provincial governors, high-ranking officials and military commanders.
's departure, he became anti-
Turk after the latter's supersession, and disapproved of the
attack on Aden in 1915, as an infringement of his prero
gative. But on Mahmud's re-instatement late in 1915, he
returned to allegiance. On the whole, however, he may be
safely said to be hostile to Ottoman military rule in Yemen.
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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