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'Handbook of Arabia. Vol. I. 1917' [367] (376/748)
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
367
Mohammed ibn Rashid in 1891. The gardens are small for the
size of the place, the wells being deep (60 to 70 feet), though unfailing
even in droughts. Leachman found it a better built, cleaner, and
more prosperous place than any other in Nejd, and its governor (of
a local Beni Zeid family) an enlightened, hospitable man. There
is a large su(/ where Indian currency and weights are in use.
At one time the place did a considerable export trade in horses
with India. It was captured by the Egyptians in 1818 and visited
by Sadlier a year later. The latter was more impressed by its
gardens than the most recent visitors have been.
2. Tharmidah, south-east of Shaqrah, is a considerable place
much ruined by the punishment meted out to it in 1903 by the
present Emir of Riyadh, after it had sided with Ibn Rashid. It
has now 1,000 inhabitants, a large fort, a small and many well-
built houses. The gardens, watered by deep wells (50 to 60 feet)
are extensive.
3. Mudhnib, in the north centre on the main road from Shaqrah
to Qasim and, strictly, not in Woshm but in a separate district of its
own name, is an agglomeration of villages rather than a town, but
of considerable population (2,000). It is an undesirable place with
salty wells and surly inhabitants, having scattered plantations and
qasrs dependent on it. It is poor in camels and other stock,
4. Washeiqir, a town reported to lie in the eastern part, between
the central nefdd strip and the face of Toweiq, and a few miles NE.
of Shaqrah. It has not been visited, but is said to be walled, to
have three mosques, a small siiq, and large plantations, watered by
wells 50 to 60 feet deep.
VIII. Sedeir
The northernmost district of Nejd proper. It has on the N. and
NW. Qasim, the boundary lying in desert about 20 miles S. of the
Rummah valley between Zilfi and Shamasiyah or Mudhnib ; on the
W. is Woshm, the boundary being either at the foot of Jebel Toweiq
or on the edge_of the nefud strip some distance out on the west ;
on the S. lies 'Aridh, the boundary being Sha'ib el-'Ajsh, south of
'Audah and W. of Thadiq; on the E. extends the Dahanah desert.
The whole area may be estimated roughly at about 100 miles N.
to S. by about 90 W. to E.
Physically Sedeir is the northern part of the Toweiq system,
including the beginning of the range which forks towards SE., with
the intramontane region and the desert for a short distance on either
hand. Its main part is the single elevated plateau in the north above
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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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