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'Handbook of Arabia. Vol. I. 1917' [359] (368/748)
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 359
hamlets with small central fort than a town proper, and it has about
800 inhabitants. It is reputed unhealthy. It is far-famed for a
broken free-standing column three feet in diameter and about 20 feet
high, supposed to be pre-Islamic, and inscribed on the lower part
with two Greek crosses. It was thrown down by the Wahabites
after 1865, but has been set up again.
4. Hareimlah, in a considerable oasis about 12 miles NNW. of
Sedus, is also in Toweiq but almost on the watershed and at the
head of the Abu Kithadah depression which drains to
Wadi
A seasonal or intermittent watercourse, or the valley in which it flows.
Wutar.
Shakespear found it a considerable place of about 2,500 inhabitants,
who cultivate large fields and fruit gardens in the depression,
irrigating from deep wells by donkey-traction. A large ruined fort,
built by the Egyptians early in the last century within the walls
at the lower end of the town, is now ruined, and the place contains
much other ruin and seems to have declined. There is a small
suq. The main road N. from Riyadh to Sedeir passes this way.
5 and 6. Jarinah and Malham are townlets beyond (E. of)
Hareimlah on the eastward slope of western Toweiq, the last being
at the foot, 15 miles from Hareimlah. They hold, respectively, 1,250
and 1,500 inhabitants. Both have considerable, but not luxuriant,
date gardens. Water is obtained at both places at depths from
50 to 90 feet according to season. Malham consists of two separate
villages about a mile apart, largely inhabited by settled Beni
Khalid, and owns the larger area of cultivation.
7. Thadiq (pronounced Thddij or a small town of about
1,500 inhabitants, lies in a large oasis in a side valley of the west
ward Toweiq slope NW. of Hareimlah.
II. Khahj (or Yemamah)
The district SE. of 'Aridh, into which
Wadi
A seasonal or intermittent watercourse, or the valley in which it flows.
Hanifah runs away,
is called by one of the above names and its capital by the other ;
but there is some doubt which is which. The mediaeval geographers
and all moderns until lately regarded Yemamah as the district name,
but the most recent authorities transpose the two.
The district extends, in any case, from the right bank of
Wadi
A seasonal or intermittent watercourse, or the valley in which it flows.
Hanifah, just below Riyadh, to the Great South Desert, and from
the borders of Hariq and Hautah (q. v.) on the south-west to the
Eastern Desert. Its habitable area may be about 80 miles N. to
S., by 50 W. to E. Except the extreme north, no part of it has
ever been seen by a European. We know only that it includes
grazing country where the Emirs of Riyadh keep their stock, at
about two days' march from their capital. It is also said (both
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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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