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'Handbook of Arabia. Vol. I. 1917' [341] (350/748)
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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£72
THE PRINCIPALITIES 341
broken from control under the influence of the sheikh of Eujeirah.
The town of Dibah, the appanage of another relative, who enjoys
the title of Vali, in like manner adds nothing to the exchequer of
the Sheikh.
The principality, in its undiminished state, consisted of four
districts, Ras el-Kheimah in the N., Shameiliyah on the E., Dheid
in the interior, and Sharjah proper on the W. The island of Sirri is
claimed by Persia, and is no longer effectively occupied by the
Sheikh of Sharjah. The districts are described in the following
sections :
i. Ras el-Kheimah is divided from the Ru'us el-Jibal district of
the Oman Sultanate on the NE. by a line running obliquely from
Ras esh-Sha'am on the W. coast of the promontory to a point
between the villages of Dibah and Bei'ah on the E. coast ; on the
W. its boundary is the sea ; the S. boundary follows a line drawn
from Jezirat el-Hamra to the S. extremity of the Jiri plain, from
which point a line to Dibah forms the limit on the SE. The district
consists of low sandy desert near the sea, rising to the hill country
of the Oman promontory. Its chief subdivisions are the plain of
Sir, a cultivated strip on the coast, extending from about 3 miles S.
of Rams to about 7 miles S. of Ras el-Kheimah town, with a length
of about 12 miles and an extreme breadth of about 5 miles in the S.;
and J iri, immediately S. of Sir, a cultivated plain of dark soil between
the Oman hills on the E. and sandy desert on the W. The upper
part of the
Wadi
A seasonal or intermittent watercourse, or the valley in which it flows.
Ham, dividing the district from Shameiliyah,
belongs to Ras el-Kheimah. Several islands are also connected with
the district. Jezirat el -Hamra (also called which
is low and sandy, lies 12 miles WSW. of Ras el-Kheimah town; it
runs for 2 miles parallel to the coast, with which it is nearly joined
at low water. BuMiisa, in the Gulf, about half-way between
Sharjah town and Lingeh on the Persian coast, has a maximum
length of about 3 miles ; it also is low and sandy, with occasional
isolated hills, possessing about 20 wells and a small date plantation.
There is a permanent population of about 20 households from
in Sharjah, owning pearl-boats and live stock, and a shifting popu
lation composed of fishermen from the mainland of Oman and
Persians who work deposits of red oxide of iron for a Lingah con
tractor. Sir Bu Na'air lies about 70 miles from the coast, a little
S. of W. ; it is 2| miles by 2 miles, uninhabited, with hills of volcanic
rock, a low sandy point in the SE., and neighbouring pearl-banks ;
it possesses brackish wells and salt deposits in the hills.
about 32 miles NE. of Bu Musa, with a few permanent inhabitants
and a well on the S. side, is about 2^ miles in diameter, and rises
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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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