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'Handbook of Yemen' [41r] (86/190)
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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69
35.—Bekil.
The Bekil are mainly settled in the oases of Barat, Ruhub,
-and Khabb, which lie some days to the north-east of the
Hashid territory, and they are engaged chiefly in the rais
ing of horses and sheep. The most powerful tribe both
in numbers and in military prowess is the Dhu Moham
med, whose Sheikhs have nearly all followed the fortunes
of Nasir Ibn Mabkhut. The Bekil tribesmen do not find
their home country sufficient for all their needs and many
have emigrated to Jauf and different parts of the Hashid
country. Thus whole tribes are found in the latter, such
as the Beni Malik, near Sheharah, and the Beni Jabr round
Sudah, while there are still, in Hajjah,
Wadi
A seasonal or intermittent watercourse, or the valley in which it flows.
Shiris, and
Mahweit, survivors from the old days when the Bekil
Sheikhs were all powerful in those districts. The Bekil
and Hashid Sheikhs are on terms of close friendship with
the Dhu Husein of Jauf, so much so that the latter are
sometimes spoken of as a part of the Bekil. But there
is no doubt that the Dhu Husein are descended from the
Ashraf (Sherifs) and they are therefore dealt with separately.
The chief Sheikhs of Bekil are: Abdullah Ibn Ghazeilan,
Yahya Ibn Yahya esh-Sha'if, Naji' Ibn Yahya, and Abu
Harbah. No personal details are known about them
except that they rose with Nasir Ibn Mabkhut, in 1911,
against the Imam, and have followed his fortunes ever
since. The influence of the Seyyids of Huth is almost
as strong amongst the Bekil as amongst the Hashid. The
Emir, Seyyid Ibrahim Muhsin er-Rusas of Huth, is also
chief Hakim Shera/i and he has agents all over their country
collecting tithes.
The chief Bekil tribes are as follows ;—
I.—Dhu Mohammed.
Chief Sheikhs; 'Abdullah Ibn Ghazeilan, of Dhu
Ghazeilan; Yahya Ibn Yahya Sha/if, of Esh-Sha if; Naji
Ibn Yahya, of A1 Awsat; Abu Harbah.
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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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- '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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