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The total population is about 4,500 souls. The town is surrounded by date groves
except on the south and is characterised by a tall tower, call Minarah, in the Bilad quarter.
The houses are of mud and stone, some of them with upper storeys. Wheat, gram and
sugar are grown in the oasis, which also produces grapes, limes, and quinces, but neither
almonds not oranges. The date palms are estimated at 20,000, camels, at 30, donkeys at
100, goats at 1,000 and sheep at 2,000 ; cattle are very few. The cultivation is irrigated
by hot springs. Manah suffered from a severe drought in 1845, and the population in
that year was reduced by emigration to 400 or 500 persons. The Sultan of 'Oman has
a Wall at Manah with only 15 armed 'askaris as a following. This official collects as zakdt
about $400 a year, the whole of which is again expended by him locally : he also holds as
an assignment some grazing land* in the vicinity which is the private property of the
present Sultan Saiyid Faisal.
MANAH TR—
One of the divisions of the Shammar T5qah tribe [q. v.) of 'Iraq.
MANAI'—
A section of the Southern Shammar tribe (7. v.), of the Asian division.
MANAI'AT—
A section of the Muhaisin tribe {q.v.) of 'Arabistan and 'Iraq.
MANAIF (Al)—
A well in Mijan {q.v.), in Trucial 'Oman.
MANAIF (KHOR)—
A small inlet 4 or 5 miles to the west of Has Ijla 'in Dhafra {q.v.), Trucial 'Oman.
MANAI'I—
A hamlet in the valley of the same name {q.v.).
MANAI'I (W adi)—
A valley in 'Oman, closely connected with and possibly a tributary of Wadi A seasonal or intermittent watercourse, or the valley in which it flows. -al-Qor
{q.v.).
MANAITHlRAH—
A village in the vicinity of Wadi A seasonal or intermittent watercourse, or the valley in which it flows. Mansah {q.v.), in the Sultanate of 'Oman.
MANAIZLAH—
A village in the Hasa oasis {q.v.), in Eastern Arabia.
MANAKH—
The southern and larger quarter of the village of JazIrat-al-Hamra {q.v.), in the
principality of Sharjah, in Trucial Oman A name used by Britain from the nineteenth century to 1971 to refer to the present-day United Arab Emirates. .
MANAKHAH—
A town in Yemen, on the Hodaidah-Sana'a road, situated 88 miles'by road from the
former and 63 from the latter. It is built at an elevation of 7,500 feet above sea-level
and is sometimes known as the Gibraltar of Yemen because, in addition to occupying
a naturally strong site on a mountain massif, it is in itself a collection of forts and
stone-built fortress-like houses.
The town and district is administered by a Qaimmaqam, whose jurisdiction extends
from Hajailah to Suq-al-Khamis.
The population of Manakhahis about 7,000, including 1,000 Jews—Harris gives, 5,000
inhabitants excluding troops. The place would be well able to withstand siege, for fertile
gardens with good crops overhang the precipices which fall sheer from the town on one
side, and orchards and fields of fodder cover the slopes of Jebel Shi bam on the other
side.