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'Handbook of Arabia. Vol. I. 1917' [54] (63/748)
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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54
THE BEDOUIN TRIBES
palm gardens at Rumadi, and can 5 therefore, be coerced into good
behaviour. He is not a man of much intelligence, and prefers, to
any active share in politics, a.quiet life and the peaceful enjoyment
of the position left him by his father, Suleiman esh-Sharqi, who was
a commanding figure in the 'Iraq. Ibn Qu'ad camps mostly on the
east bank of the Euphrates.
DULEIM
Suh-Trihe.
Tribe.
3,000 tents
'Ali Suleiman esh- Sharqi
Ibn Qu'ad
Clan.
Mahdmidah
Abu 'Isa
Qureit
Abu Alwdn
Abu Fahd
Abu Redmi
Abu 'Ubeyyah
Abu Nemis
3. The Jebellyah (or
The JEBELIYAH are a loose confederation of independent tribes
acknowledging no common Sheikh, but united by common interests
and conditions. They are known either as the Jebeliyah or by the
older name of Zobeid (Zubeid). They inhabit the volcanic districts
to east and south of the Jebel Hauran and the Lejah between the
Hauran hills and Damascus. They own a little cultivated land,
mainly in the Ruhbah, and flocks of sheep, but few camels. They
are, as a whole, poor and of bad reputation ; like all tribes on the
frontier of the desert they rob and pillage their neighbours, the
settled inhabitants, but they usually escape unpunished ; for the
Sultan's writ fails a few miles out of Damascus, and the stony
camping grounds of the Jebeliyah are difficult of approach.
The Ghiyadh used to plunder the desert post when it travelled
fortnightly across the desert to Baghdad. Since its cessation, in
1912, they have occupied the outlying Turkish station, the
east of Dhumeir, which was abandoned by the gendarmerie. The
Jebeliyah are close allies of the Druzes, of whom they stand in awe.
They pasture the Druze flocks in the low-lying Safa during the
winter, and in summer come up into the foot-hills of the Jebel
Hauran. They are usually on bad terms with the Anazah, and
steal the sheep and camels of the Wuld 'All and Hasanah whenever
an opportunity offers; and they are always at feud with the Beni
Sakhr, who are the foes of the Druzes. •
The Masa'id are said to be the most numerous of the Jeheliyah
tribes ; the Ghiyadh are next in importance.
The 'Isa, though they range Jebel Duruz and are classed vulgarly
as Zobeid, are of Sakhr stock and acknowledge the kinship. The
tribes of Jebel Duruz and the Lejah are only a part of the Zobeid.
Another large group is found east of the Tigris and is Shiah. The
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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)
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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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- 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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