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'Handbook of Yemen' [47r] (98/190)
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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6
— 81 —
district is bounded on the north by Jebel Bura/a and the
Wadi
A seasonal or intermittent watercourse, or the valley in which it flows.
Siham, on the east by Salfiyah and Jebel c T T tmah,
on the south by the
Wadi
A seasonal or intermittent watercourse, or the valley in which it flows.
Reimah, and on the west by the
'Absi and Zaraniq districts. The Sheikh is Murshid ibn
Mohammed El-Jabi who is also Turkish Kaimakam. The
Mudir is Seyyid Mahmud. There are said to be seventy
Sheikhs and seventy districts in Reimah, with a total strength
of over 50,000 men.
The principal clans are: Beni Waghid, Beni el-Jad, Beni
Sa'id, Beni Walid, Beni Mukhtar, Beni Tulaili, Beni Masa'b,
Beni Ghuzi, Nomah, Yafuz, Ahl Dalalam, Beni Harazi,
Beni Ahmed, Beni Khudam, Ahl Jabi, and Beni en-Nahari.
The last-named defeated a Turkish expedition sent to
collect taxes in 1914 and captured the Kaimakam of
Menakhah. Their chief Sheikh is Seyyid 'Abdullah en-
Nahari. His brother, the late Sheikh, Seyyid Yahya en-
Nahari, was defeated by the Turks and died in captivity.
The clan is generally on bad terms with the Anis.
The principal villages are : Jabi (the headquarters of the
district and of Sheikh Murshid) ; Robat en-Nahari (the suq
of Sheikh Murshid) ; Kusmah ; 'Alujah (the suq or market
of Seyyid Mahmud) ; Hadiyah.
69.—Anis.
The boundaries of the Anis stretch from a short distance
west of Dhamar, due north nearly to Wa'alan, keeping
always a short distance to the west of the Dhamar-San'a
road. To the west they extend along the Beni Matar
confines almost to Mefhak, and then, skirting Menakhah,
and cutting the
Wadi
A seasonal or intermittent watercourse, or the valley in which it flows.
Sihatn, go down a few miles south of
Jebel Reimah and then across almost to Dhamar.
The paramount Sheikh is ' Ali Miqdad who lives at Jebel
esh-Sherq. He is a man of about fifty and used to be a
staunch adherent of the Imam. He fought for him in
1911 and captured the Turkish Kaimakam of Doran,
Zakari Bey. In August 1916, however, he was reported to
have quarrelled with the Imam and to have closed the
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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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