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'Handbook of Arabia. Vol. I. 1917' [55] (64/748)
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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NORTHERN TRIBES 55
Aqeidat, Duleim, and Jubur all claim Zobeid origin. All Zobeid
tribes claim a common Qahtan ancestor and therefore are Ahl
Qibli.
JEBELlYAH (ZOBEID)
Adhamdt. 500 tents. J. Duruz
Masd'id
500-600 tents. E. part of J. Duruz
Ibn 'Ayyash en-Na'air
and Ibn Lafi
Ghiyddh.
500-600 tents. In the Ruhbah and
Safa
Sherdfdt. 500 tents. „
Hadiyah. 400 tents. „
Sulut. 400-500 tents. In the Lejah
Hasan, 400 tents. Ibn Mutla 4 , Ibn
Khudeir. Jebel Dxiraz
'Isa, 400-500 tents. Rat'anibnMad-hi.
Jebel Duruz
4. Beni Sakhr.
The BENI SAKHR, usually known as Ahl esh-Shimal,' People of the
Northare of the northern Arabian stock, and reckon their descent
from Mudhar, either through 'Abs or through Tamim. Legend gives
varied accounts of their origin, one being that the eponymous
founder of the tribe was a certain Sakhr who came from the east;
another that their ancestor was a child abandoned in the desert ;
he was adopted by a Bedouin called Dahamsh, who gave him his
daughter in marriage, and was nicknamed Toweiq (Tuweiq) on account
of a small ring which he wore round his neck ; for this reason the
whole tribe is sometimes known as the Tauqah. It is also occasionally
named, after the foster-father of its founder, the Dahamshah. All
traditions agree, however, that the Beni Sakhr spring from a common
ancestor whose tomb is venerated at Bir Ba'ir. This cenotaph,
built in an ancient caravan-station on the road from Damascus to
Teima, which fell into disuse in the early Abbasid period, is covered
with small votive offerings, and the great Sheikhs of the tribe, when
they move down to summer quarters here, would not venture to enter
the
Wadi
A seasonal or intermittent watercourse, or the valley in which it flows.
Ba'ir without sacrificing a camel in honour of the
The sub-tribes of the Sukhur are all descendants of Toweiq, the
genealogical tree being as follows :
Toweiq.
Ghufl. Sehim. Ghubein. Qa'ud.
'Amr. Heqeish. Hamid. Muteirat. Fa'iz.
Zeben.
The territory of the Beni Sakhr stretches from the Jebel Duruz
in the north to the depression of Jafar, near Ma'an, in the south;
it is bounded on the east by the
Wadi
A seasonal or intermittent watercourse, or the valley in which it flows.
Sirhan, and on the west by
the Jordan. It is a rolling country, sparsely covered with grass.
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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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