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'Handbook of Yemen' [55r] (114/190)
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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— 97 —
7
(once in the Customs); but persona grata to the Imam.
A swarthy Syrian, corpulent, but energetic and a good
administrator. Quarrelled with Idrisi in 1912, and renoun
ced further relations with him. His son, Shehat Effendi
(by his first wife, a Syrian), is, or was, a Lieutenant in
39th Nishanji at Suq-el Khamis. He has no children by his
second (Circassian) wife. He was superseded in the summer
bjtkM of 1915 by Sa'id
Pasha
An Ottoman title used after the names of certain provincial governors, high-ranking officials and military commanders.
{q.v., or by Ahmed Tewfik
Pasha
An Ottoman title used after the names of certain provincial governors, high-ranking officials and military commanders.
?)
on account of his disapproval of the attack on Aden. But
in early autumn he was reinstated and awarded the war
medal in gold, his maintenance in his position having
proved a condition of friendly relations between the
, of Saul Turks and the Imam. He is not on good terms with 'Ali
brotkofii) Sa'id
Pasha
An Ottoman title used after the names of certain provincial governors, high-ranking officials and military commanders.
{q.v.) or, probably, with the O.C. Yemen.
, Makrami, Isma ; il (El).
ks.
Chief of the Beni Yam and Emir of Nejran. Has two
brothers, Mohammed and Hasan. All are of the Isma/iliyah
sect of the Shiah, and own, in theory, the supremacy of the
tkGUifc Agha Khan, with whom they maintain some communica-
upporteis of Si tion. The family, which is descended from Sheikh Makrami,
the Nejran reformer of the eighteenth century, formerly
held the Emirate of Heima, Harraz, and Menakhah, but it
lost these places to the Turks in 1872. Isma il, with his
tribe, favours Idrisi and is opposed to the Imam.
Mareb (Sherifs of).
The place, rather than the ruler, governs the policy.
The actual Sherif is Mohammed Ibn 5 Abd er-Kahman Ibn
Husein, a man of about fifty, an Ottoman vassal with the
courtesy title of Emir. He comes of the same stock as the
Sherifs of Harib and Behan el-Jezab. He is said to be
Anglophil. He was at San'a in August 1913, receiving
treatment for two gunshot wounds received in a skirmish
i with the local Seyyid faction, with whom the Mareb Sherifs
lisisl are at constant feud.
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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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- '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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