'Gazetteer of Arabia Vol. II' [‎1351] (406/688)

NAI—NAJ
1351
NA 'iM-AL-KABlRAH—
A suburb of Manamah {q-v.), Bahrain.
N AIM AH—
A settlement in 'Iraq, situated about 18 miles by road westward from Bghailah on the
Tigris. Three miles north of Naimah is a deep hor with water throughout the year.
NAINAWA—
An old-fashioned name for Karbala {q.v.) in 'Iraq.
NAIS—
A section of the 'Anafijeh tribe {q.v.) of southern 'Arabistan.
N AIT AH—
An island off the coast of Trucial 'Oman ; it is near Has Mashairib and some 16 or 17
sea miles northward of D5hat-as-Sila', in Mijan. It is a low sandy islet less than half a
a mile long and very narrow, with stunted tufts of grass. It lies on the south-western
edge of a great reef, which appears to join that extending northwards from the Yasat
Islands. There are a few graves on the island, probably of fishermen, and several
detach sd rocks lie off its northern end.
The soundings Measurements of the depth of a body of water. in the bay, southward of Naitah and westward of Yasat, are uneven,
with overfalls of 3 or 4 fathoms ; the bottom in the deeper parts is mud and elsewhere rock
or sand. *
Naitah Strait, in Latitude 24" 17' N., Longitude 51" 27' E., is 3^ miles long and 6 cables
wide, with a least depth of about 4 fathoms ; it is the only known navigable channel lead
ing northward.— { Persian Gulf The historical term used to describe the body of water between the Arabian Peninsula and Iran. Pilot.)
NAJ A' (al)—
One of the Al Ma'idh fendies of the 'Ajman tribe {q.v.) of Eastern Arabia.
NAJAF QADHA—
A division of the Karbala Sanjaq of the Baghdad Wilayat in 'Iraq.
Position and boundaries. —The Qadha of Najaf is situated on the Shatt-al-Hindlyah
in its lower reaches, chiefly on the western side ; it is bounded by the Qadhas of Karbala
and Hindlyah on the north, by that of Shamiyah on the east, and by the Sham'yah desert
on the south and west.
Topography and inhabitants. —The only town which the Qadha contains is that of Najaf,
elsewhere described ; the only fixed village of any size is Rahabah, the seat of a Mudir,
which is situated nearly 20 miles south of Najaf Town on the western verge of cultiva
tion and at the beginning of the Shamlyah desert. Rahabah is a small place
inhabited by sedentary Arabs whose houses are miserable cabins of mud.
The chief physical features of the district are the Bahr-an-Najaf, which is noticed in the
articles on the Shatt-al-Hindiyah and Najaf Town, and part of the Shatt-al-Hindiyah
which flows into it.
Tables follow below of the agricultural tracts and of the tribes of the Najaf Qadha,
by Nahiyahs.
Ndhiyah of Hor-ad-Dukhn.
The names of the tracts in this Nahiyah, which is situated between Kifl and ths
Shamiyah Qadha, have not been ascertained. The principal tribe are Ban! Hasan of
the following sections :—
'Abbas. Hadari (Al Bu).
'Adhaib (Al Bu). Hawatim.
'Aradhi (Al Bu). Majatin.
There are also some of the Mawash tribe who are intimately connected with the Bani
Hasan.
The Hor-ad-Dukhn tract is intersected by a canal which leaves the Hindiyah (left bank)
under the name of Abu Shurah, a little below Kifl and goes first to the eastward ; it
then assumes the same of Abu Kufuf and circling round to southward eventually rejoins