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MA'AN (A bu)—
A camping ground, with water, in Biyadh {q. v.), in Hasa, eastern Arabia.
MA'AN (I bn).
A halting place on the Yemen Hajj route ; it is situated roughly 300 miles by road from
Mecca, and near Wadi A seasonal or intermittent watercourse, or the valley in which it flows. Sahran.
MA 'AR (Has and Sharm)—
See Marsa Mahar.
MA ARAM (R as)—
A cape on the east coast of Kamaran Island (q. v.). The quarantine station is con
nected by submarine cable laid from Ras-al-Ma'aram to Salif on the mainland shore,
and thence by land line with Hodaidah and the general system.— {R. S. and G. of A.
Pilot.)
MA'ARRIF {Al BU)—
A section of the Muhaisin tdbe (q. v.).
MA'ASAR—
A well in Dhafrah {q. v.), Trucial 'Oman.
MA'ASHANI—
Or Kathob ; a section of the Qara tribe {g. v. ), of Dhufar, southern Arabia.
MA'ASHIBAH— ,
A hamlet in Sadair {q. v.), in central Arabia.
MA'ASHIRAH—
A section of the Bani Battash tribe {q. v.), of the 'Oman Sultanate.
MA'ATAQ ( Al)—
A sub-section of the Al Hitlan section of the Ajman tribe {q. v.) of eastern Arabia.
MA'ATARADH—
A village in the Baraimi oasis {q. v.), in independent 'Oman.
MAATHlR—
The central strip of the Nuwadhir tract of the Nafud (q. v.), in northern central Arabia.
MA'AWAL—
Singular Ma'awali. A tribe of the 'Oman Sultanate, Hinawi in politics and Ibadhi
by religion, found in Wadi A seasonal or intermittent watercourse, or the valley in which it flows. Ma'awal in Western Hajar where they own the villages of
Afi (1,000 houses); 'Araiq (40 houses), Musilmat (300 houses), and part of Hibra (80
houses), also at Khabbah (150 houses) and Barkah (20 bouses), in Batinah. There la
moreover a Bedouin section, called the Yal Bin Rashid, who own about 60 camels, 20
donkeys 30 cattle and 600 sheep and goats. The Ma'awal number altogather about
8,000 souls : Afi is the tribal capital and the present Tamimah is Nasir-bin-Muhamma.
The Jalandite rulers of 'Oman, who flourished at the time of the conversion of the country
to Muhammadanism or somewhat earlier, are supposed to have belonged to this tribe.
MA'AWAL ( Jazirat)—
See Maslrah Island, Sultanate of Oman, southern Arabia.
MA'AWAL (W adi)—
A complexus of small valleys in the Western Hajar district of the 'Oman Sultanate,
of the disposition of which it is impossible, in the absence of a survey, to gain a clear idea ;
the drainage of the system appears to combine and find a common outlet to the set
immediately on the west side of Barkah. Of the component valleys Wadi A seasonal or intermittent watercourse, or the valley in which it flows. -al-Hammam and
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