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'Handbook of Arabia. Vol. I. 1917' [325] (334/748)
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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ISLANDS
325
4. Nebi Sdlih, Jezlrah
Ihis island, lies in the inlet of K;ibb on the E. side of Bahrein
Island; it measures only I mile in each direction, and is practically
one large date-grove, said to contain 16,000 trees. There are two
villages inhabited by Bahdrinah cultivators, pearl-divers, and
fish.ei men , one, JvCijidn, with 40 houses, the other, with
35, owning about 10 boats. Two copious springs, es-Safdhiyah
and l Ain el-Khadhra, supply abundant fresh water. The island is
under the jurisdiction of Sheikh Khalid, brother of the Sheikh of
Bahrein.
About 200 yards to the N. is a still smaller i;sland, 'Jezeijyivulb,
covered with date-palms, now belonging to Sheikh Khalid, but
formerly to a Shiah mosque of which only the ruins remain.
5. U mm
This island lies about 2 miles off the W. coast of Bahrein Island,
and measures less than 4 miles in length from N. to S. by about
2^ miles in breadth ; it is uninhabited. Though low, it contains
two peaks of inconsiderable height, and furnishes the best building-
cement in Bahrein. There is a freshwater spring near the W.
coast. The Dawasir of Budayya' and Zallaq villages on Bahrein
Island send their cattle to Umm Na'asan in the hot weather for
grazing.
D. EL-QATAR
Area
Ll-Qatar is a peninsula running N. and S. with a maximum
length of 80 miles and a breadth, at the base, of 40 miles ; it projects
from the Arabian coast about midway up the
Persian Gulf
The historical term used to describe the body of water between the Arabian Peninsula and Iran.
, and
forms the eastern side of the Gulf of Bahrein. Its S., or land
boundary, is not clearly defined. Beginning at the foot of the bay
called Dohat es-Salwa on the SW., it runs SE. to the wells of Sakak,
continuing thence to the E. coast, either ENE., to the N. end of
the Naqiyan sand-hills, which run parallel with the sea for 30 miles
from a point 10 miles S of Wakrah, or E. by S., to the S. end of
the same hills, and the shore at the N. end of the Khor el-'Odeid.
The Sheikhs of El-Qatar claim territory even to the S. of this ;
but the British Government has recognized Khor el-'Odeid as
belonging to the Trucial Sheikh of Abu Dhabi (see p. 337).
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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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