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'Handbook of Arabia. Vol. I. 1917' [217] (226/748)
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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DISTRICTS AND TOWNS
217
a market town, engirdled by fighting towers. Jiblat el-Qarn, near
by, is the stronghold of the El-Qarn branch, and is built on a little
knoll commanding the Hasani border.
3. Mijdah, in
Wadi
A seasonal or intermittent watercourse, or the valley in which it flows.
Ruqub, a tributary
wadi
A seasonal or intermittent watercourse, or the valley in which it flows.
of the Ahwar, is
a large village of some 600 inhabitants, mostly non-combatants,
and is situated on the south-western spur of the Maran ridge. The
shrine of Sidi 'Amr ibn Sa'id is close to the village and is a prominent
landmark and a centre of pilgrimage from all parts. A spring of
good water comes out near the shrine and runs through an artificially
covered channel past the village.
v. 'Audillah (or 'Audali). A tribe of predatory habits and abrupt
manners, under a Sultan, which inhabits the Kaur el-'Audillah, west
and north-west of the territory of the Oleh. The population is not
known with any exactitude, but the tribe is reputed to muster
4,000 fighting men (Bent). The people, the women in particular,
decorate their faces in a very grotesque manner with a red earth dye,
called hisn, and some of the women dye their faces red all over.
The chief town is Laudar (Loder), the capital, a white unwalled
town situated on the Sa'idi plain at the foot of the Kaur el-'Audillah,
and said to be ' more populous than Shibam '. It is an important
centre for the littoral and highland trade of a wide region. A
market is held every Wednesday, and is attended by all the outlying
tribes of the neighbouring confederations, who, though they may
be at feud, agree on that day to declare a truce.
B. THE HADHRAMAUT
Aeea
In its broader sense, this region may be said to extend inland
from the coast of the Arabian Sea to about lat. 17° N. ; and from
long. 47° E. to long. 53° E. Its frontiers are in no sense
defined, but roughly it is bounded on the W. by the Aulaqi
territory, N. by the great Ahqaf tract of desert, and E. by the
Dhofar province of Oman. Thus considered, the region measures
about 400 miles from E. to W. and has a depth N. and S. varying
from about 220 miles in the west to about 50 miles in the east.
In its more restricted sense, the term Hadhramaut refers to the
broad valley running for some hundreds of miles more or less
parallel to the coast, by which the waters of the many valleys in
a large portion of the southern Arabian tableland probably drain
into the sea, between Seihut and Qishn.
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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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