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'Gazetteer of Arabia Vol. II' [1244] (293/688)
The record is made up of 1 volume (341 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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1244 MUBARRAZ
side, between it and Hazam. Un ler Turkish rule the garrison was a quarter of a bat
talion of regular infantry in Qasr Sahud and 25 mounted and 10 unmounted Dhabitiyahs
in the town.
Quarters, gates and buildings.—The town consists of 5 FarTqs or quarters, which are as
follows:—
Karae.
Position.
Houses
and
inhabitants.
Remarks.
'Ayuni (Far'q-al)
'Itban (Farlq-al) ..
Embraces the cen
tral and south
western portions of
the town.
Occupies the middle
of the northern face
of the town.
700 houses mostly of
non -Bedouin Sumi
Arabs. The chief
family in this quar
ter are the Bin
'Afaliq.
400 houses, mostly
of Sh 'ahs ; but
there are still a few
also of the settled
'Ataibah from
whom the quarter
is said to take its
name.
The residence former
ly occupied by the
Turkish Mudlr is
in this quarter,
so also are the
market place or
Suq and the Qais-
r riyah; the latter is
a small collection
of permanently oc
cupied shops in the
market place.
Muqabil (FarTq-al)
Situated in the
north-east comer,
having 'Itban to
the west and Sha'
abah to the south
of it.
70 houses, mostly of
Sunnis.
Sha'abah (Farlq-ash]
Forms the south-east
ern end of the town
and has Muqabil
and 'Itban to the
north-west and
'Avuni to the west
of it.
200 houses, chiefly
of Shi'ahs.
The leading man in
this quarter is at
Hasan- bin- Bishr.
Siyasib (Far7q-as)
Is on the north-west
side and is met by
'Itban on the east
and by 'Ayuni on
the south.
300 houses, the ma
jority of Sunnis.
Shaikh ' Abdullah-
bin-Sa'dun, a resi-
sident of this
quarter, is headman
of the whole town
and descended from
its ancient rulers.
He traces his origin
to the Bani Khalid.
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Volume II of III of the Gazetteer of Arabia. The Gazetteer is alphabetically-arranged and this volume contains entries K through to R.
The Gazetteer is an alphabetically-arranged compendium of the tribes, clans and geographical features (including towns, villages, lakes, mountains and wells) of Arabia that is contained within three seperate bound volumes. The entries range from short descriptions of one or two sentences to longer entries of several pages for places such as Iraq and Yemen.
A brief introduction states that the gazetteer was originally intended to deal with the whole of Arabia, "south of a line drawn from the head of the Gulf of 'Aqabah, through Ma'an, to Abu Kamal on the Euphrates, and to include Baghdad and Basrah Wilayats" and notes that before the gazetteer could be completed its publication was postponed and that therefore the three volumes that now form this file simply contain "as much of the MSS. [manuscript] as was ready at the time". It further notes that the contents have not been checked.
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- 1 volume (341 folios)
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Foliation: This volume's foliation system is circled in pencil, in the top right corner of the recto The front of a sheet of paper or leaf, often abbreviated to 'r'. of each folio.
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- front, back, spine, edge, head, tail, front-i, i-r:ii-v, 975:1092, 1092a:1092f, 1093:1110, 1110a:1110f, 1111:1328, 1328a:1328f, 1329:1386, 1386a:1386f, 1387:1446, 1446a:1446f, 1447:1448, 1448a:1448f, 1449:1542, 1542a:1542f, 1543:1600, iii-r:vi-v, back-i
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