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'Handbook of Arabia. Vol. I. 1917' [379] (388/748)
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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RECENT HISTORY AND PRESENT POLITICS 379
another court intrigue, and with him wisdom and sobriety of judge-
^ 1 ment are said to have vanished from the immediate counsels of the
Hid Emir. His post as the Emir's adviser was taken by the distant
cousin who had instigated the murder, Sa'ud ibn Salih es-Subhan,
a man of bad reputation and little ability. Sa'ud himself has
a reputation for irresponsible violence.
Notwithstanding these internal dissensions, the policy of the
mar Rashid house has held to the lines laid down a generation ago by
the the great Emir Mohammed, though the authority of the ruler of
lift Jebel Shammar has suffered considerable diminution. Mohammed
eof instituted friendly relations with the Turks, which have been con-
i 'M tinued unbroken. Erom 1888 until his death in 1897 he maintained
the a supremacy over Riyadh, which was lost by his nephew and suc-
Iziz, cessor, 'Abd el-'Aziz. In fact, since 1897 the Rashid have been
the almost continuously at war with Ibn Sa'ud, Emir of Riyadh, and
heir fortune has been mainly on the latter's side. On several occasions,
isof notably in 1904 and 1905, Ottoman forces were called in to help
'Abd el-'Aziz in his struggle against Ibn Sa'ud and the Sheikh of
stic- Koweit; but in an eight years' campaign, which impoverished his
two own territories, he did not succeed in unseating his rival. The inter-
jrief vening oases of Qasim have thrown off their allegiance to Ha'il. Of
the their chief towns, Aneizah is now ruled, under Ibn Sa'ud's suzerainty,
pre- by an independent Sheikh, and Boreidah pays tribute to Riyadh. It
mir, is true that for the last two years, since Ibn Sa'ud has been engaged in
ens- the Hasa, Ibn Rashid has been able to maintain his position against
to him ; the latest pitched battle between the Emirs, fought at Mejma'
nth early in 1915, left honours easy. There have been rumours that the
ting Sherif of Mecca, with whom Ibn Rashid is on friendly terms, has
In attempted, through the mediation of his second son, 'Abdullah (see
jon p. 355), to bring about a reconciliation between the two ; but his
y efforts do not seem to have been attended with any success ; nor,
!a ie in any case, is a lasting peace within the bounds of probability.
Ibn Rashid still holds the oasis of Teima and exacts a yearly
in( l tribute from the group of Bishr tribes,' Awajah, Wuld Suleiman, and
ged Euqara (Eejr), who roam over the southern and western borders
y of the Nefud and over the desert up to the Hejaz Railway; but to
the north the Sherarat have slipped from his hands into those of the
Huweitat, and to the south the Harb no longer give him obedience,
[in The Huteim offer open resistance, raiding the Teima road up to
the the gates of Ha'il. The oasis of Jauf el-'Amr, on the northern edge
1]lt | of the Nefud, an important station on the caravan road from Ha'il
nar to Damascus, was seized four years ago by the Ruweilah Sheikh,
[0 f Nuri esh-Sha'lan, and is administered by his sonNawwaf ; nor has
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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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