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'Gazetteer of Arabia Vol. I' [542] (573/1050)
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542
DHUFAR PEOPEB
the sardine, may be seen drying near villages. Gazelle, hysenas and foxes are met with
where there is cover.
Administration. —Dhufar Proper is the only part of the Dhufar District which is
effectively controlled by the Wali. The late Wali had his headquarters in the Hisn or
fort upon the shore between Salalah and Hafah, a country residence and fort at EizSt
and a house and gardens at Hamran.
Topography. —The following are the principal places in Dhufar Proper :—
Name.
'Auqad ..
Bilad* or
Balad-al- Qadimah
or
Balaid.
Position.
The westernmost
village in Dhufar
plain, 4 miles west
of Salalah, four
miles north-east
of Risut, and
about one mile from
the sea.
On the coast
J a mile east
of Hafah, from
which it is divided
by cotton fields and
groves of cocoanut
palm.
Nature.
A village of about 75
occupied mud houses
divided into two
quarters with an in
terval of half a mile
between. The quar
ter to the west is
'Auqad Bait Fadhil
and has 60 houses ;
the other is ' Auqad
Bait Marhun which
has now only 15 oc
cupied houses.
The quarters are
named from the
sections of the Al-
Kathir tribe who
inhabit them.
A ruined site cover
ing an area two
miles in length by
600 yards in breadth
The fortified por
tion of the ancient
town, at its east
end, stretched for
1,240 yards along
the sea, had a depth
inland of 500 yards
and was encircled
on the three land
ward sides by a
great ditch of fresh
water. The citadel
at the north-west
corner of this quar
ter-still rises 30 feet
above the plain.
The ruins of the
unfortified part of
the town are exten-
K emarks.
The inhabitants culti
vate maize and bajri
and collect frankin
cense. The water-
supply is from wells
two or three fathoms
deep. There are no
boats. Cattle num
ber about 600 and
sheep and goats the
same. Midway
between Salalah and
'Auqad a stream be
ginning in a fresh
water spring runs
down with a zigzag
course to the sea ;
its banks are marshy
and abound in
fowl. Half a mile
north of 'Auqad are
the ruins of a fort.
The ruins contain
many sculptured re
mains, some Muham
mad an, some pos
sibly pre-Islamitic :
among the former,
near the north-east
corner of the ruins,
is the marble tomb
stone, admirably
preserved and bear
ing the date 710
A. H., of Malik
Ibrahim-bin- Mud-
haffar, who accord
ing to tradition was
the first Arab ruler
of Dhufar. Not far
from Bilad is the
shrine of 'Abdul-
lah-as-Samiri, a
saint from Malabar,
whose intercession
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Volume I of III of the Gazetteer of Arabia. The Gazetteer is alphabetically-arranged and this volume contains entries A through to J.
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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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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