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'Handbook of Arabia. Vol. I. 1917' [60] (69/748)
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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60
THE BEDOUIN TRIBES
B. T ribes op the C entral W est
1. TheHuweitdt
The HUWEITAT are a stout and warlike tribe whose country
extends from near Teima in the south to Kerak in the north, and
on the east to the Nefud and the
Wadi
A seasonal or intermittent watercourse, or the valley in which it flows.
Sirhan. On the west it is
scattered down the Gulf of Akaba and through Sinai into Egypt.
Huweitat are nomads in the desert north-east of Cairo, and settled
as cultivators round Tanta. The Huweitat of Akaba, Sinai, and
Egypt have no political link with the Sheikhs whose head-quarters
are at or near Ma'an ; but they recognize certain claims of kinship,
and if a Huweiti of the Tawayah or Beni Jazi got into difficulties
with the Ottoman Government, he would seek refuge, if he could
escape, in Sinai or in Egypt. The Huweitat have, however, an
exceptionally bad name for treachery. They are divided among
themselves, and do not respect their own blood-ties. One clan will
set upon a caravan under the convoy of a of another clan,
shoot the rafiq, and rob and murder the merchants.
On the Syrian side the leading sub-tribe is the Beni Jazi, and
'Arar ibn Jazi is nominally the paramount Sheikh ; but he is not
recognized by the Abu Tayy, and the two groups are frequently
at feud. The Tayy are an offshoot of the Jazi, and owe their
position to the restless energy of their Sheikhs. The late chief,
'Audah, was one of the most famous raiders of his time, and did not
hesitate to carry his expeditions across the Hamad to the Euphrates,
where he raided Ibn Hadhdhal of the' Amarat. On one occasion, when
he was out against the Siba', he pushed almost as far north as Aleppo.
The Huweitat are on close terms of friendship with the Beni
'Atiyah, and are at liberty to camp through all the 'Atiyah country.
The Sheikh Ahmed ibn Tuqeiqah occupies the Red Sea coast between
Muweilah and Dhaba, with his head-quarters at Dhaba. They are
at war with the Shammar, except the clan of the Rammal, which
is connected by marriage with the Tayy ; and they are usually on
bad terms with the Wuld Suleiman and the Euqara. With the
Sukhur relations are always delicate, and the two tribes often break
into sharp conflict. In 1914 the jealousy between Ibn Jazi and Abu
Tayy led to continuous raids between the sub-tribes. Ibn Jazi
took refuge with the Sukhur, and the Tayy with the Ruweilah. But
the outbreak of war between Great Britain and Turkey filled
tribes with a common fear that their camels might be requisitioned
by the Ottoman Government for transport purposes ; the Huweitat
made up their differences, and together with the Sukhur retired
east into the Anazah dira, where the Government could not reach
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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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