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'Handbook of Arabia. Vol. I. 1917' [53] (62/748)
The record is made up of 1 volume (371 folios). It was created in 1916. It was written in English and Arabic. 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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Tribe.
1,800 tents
NORTHERN TRIBES
SIBA'
Sub-Tribe.
Qumussa, 800 tents
Githwan ibn Murshid
53
'Ubida, 1,000 tents
Burj as ibn Hudeib
Tribe.
800 tents
Sajir er-Rafadi
Clan.
Ressalln
Hamad ibn Aida
Khumsdn
Sagr ibn Museirib
^Anurah
Shinan ibn Sheteiwi
Rahammah
Mohammed ibn Sa'id
Musika
Mubarak ibn Qiladan
Muwd'iqah
Fadhil ibn Muweini'
Duwwdm
'Uqeil el-Fiqlqi
SELQA
Sub-Tribe.
Shimldn
Madhydn
'Uqeil ibn Madhyan
Metarafah
Buneyyah ibn Wuteif
2. The
The DULEIM are of mixed blood. According to their own tradition
they came out of Nejd into the Syrian Desert. They say that Thamir,
jidd of the Duleim, and his brother Jabbar, jidd of the Jubur,
guided by a man of the Sulubba, occupied the wells of Muheiwir in
the
Wadi
A seasonal or intermittent watercourse, or the valley in which it flows.
Hauran.
They wander over the desert on either side of the Euphrates
from Fellujah almost to Anah, sharing the Eastern Shamiyah, the
Syrian Desert, with the 'Amarat, with whom they are in close
alliance. They have cultivated ground in the Euphrates valley,
and rear large flocks of sheep which supply the Damascus market.
Every winter the dealers come out across the Hamad, and, staying
each with his own Sheikh, purchase the season's lambs, and drive
them home across the grassy steppe in the spring. The Duleim
are not camel-breeders ; their supply is little more than sufficient
for their own needs. The Shammar of the Jezirah are their enemies,
and there is constant feud between them and the Shiah tribes of
'Iraq, such as the Beni Hasan, who pasture their sheep in the desert
round Kerbela. They are noted thieves, and have always given
trouble on the Euphrates high road, where they hold up every
unprotected caravan. In 1910 Nazim
Pasha
An Ottoman title used after the names of certain provincial governors, high-ranking officials and military commanders.
repressed them with
a stern hand, and during his brief administration at Baghdad
travellers and merchants journeyed in security. 'Ali Suleiman, the
paramount Sheikh of the Duleim, was on terms of friendship with
Jemal
Pasha
An Ottoman title used after the names of certain provincial governors, high-ranking officials and military commanders.
, who succeeded Nazim, and he has continued to court
the favour of the Ottoman Government. He owns a house and
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This volume is A Handbook of Arabia, Volume I, General (Admiralty War Staff, Intelligence Department: May, 1916) and contains geographical and political information of a general character concerning the Arabian Peninsula. The volume was prepared on behalf of the Admiralty and War Office, from sources, including native information obtained for the purpose of compiling the volume, since the outbreak of the First World War. Separate chapters are devoted to each of the districts or provinces of the Arabian Peninsula and include information on the physical character, as well as social and political surveys.
The volume includes a note on official use, title page, and a 'Note' on the compilation of the volume. There is a page of 'Contents' that includes the following sections:
- Chapter 1: Physical Survey;
- Chapter 2: Social Survey;
- Chapter 3: The Bedouin Tribes: A. Northern Tribes, B. Tribes of the Central West, C. Tribes of the Central South, D. Tribes of the Central East, Supplement: Non-Bedouin Nomads;
- Chapter 4: Hejaz;
- Chapter 5: Asir;
- Chapter 6: Yemen;
- Chapter 7: Aden and Hadhramaut: A. Aden and the Interior, B. Hadhramaut;
- Chapter 8: Oman: A. The sultanate of Oman, B. Independent Oman;
- Chapter 9: The Gulf Coast: A. The Sultanate of Koweit [Kuwait], B. Hasa, C. Bahrain, D. El-Qatar, E. Trucial Oman A name used by Britain from the nineteenth century to 1971 to refer to the present-day United Arab Emirates. ;
- Chapter 10: Nejd;
- Chapter 11: Jebel Shammar;
- Chapter 12: The Northern Nefūd and Dahanah Belts;
- Chapter 13: Settled Tribes of the North-West;
- Chapter 14: Settled Tribes of the West;
- Chapter 15: Settled Tribes of the South;
- Chapter 16: Settled Tribes of the Centre;
- Appendix: Note of Topographical and Common Terms;
- Index;
- Plates.
The front of the volume includes a 'List of Maps' and a 'Note on the Spelling of Proper Names'. Maps contained in this volume are:
- Map 1: Arabia: Districts and Towns;
- Map 2: Orographical Features of Arabia;
- Map 3: Land Surface Features of Arabia;
- Map 4: Tribal Map of Arabia.
The volume also contains fifteen plates of photographs and sketches by Captain William Henry Irvine Shakespear, Douglas Carruthers, Captain Gerard Leachman, Dr Julius Euting, George Wyman Bury, and Samuel Barrett Miles.
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- 1 volume (371 folios)
- Arrangement
The volume is arranged in chapters. There is a contents page, list of maps, alphabetical index, and list of plates.
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Foliation: There is a foliation sequence, which 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. It begins on the front cover, on number 1, and ends on the last of various maps which are inserted at the back of the volume, on number 371.
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- 'Handbook of Arabia. Vol. I. 1917'
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- front, back, spine, edge, head, tail, front-i, i-r:i-v, 1:381, 384:726, ii-r:ii-v, ii-r:ii-v, back-i
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