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'Handbook of Arabia. Vol. I. 1917' [458] (467/748)
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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458 SETTLED TRIBES OP THE WEST
The Rijal el-M'a are foes with the Beni Hilal, Beni MushpiH
Rabxah wa Rufeidah, A1 Musa, and Munjahah. With the TW
Thuwwah, 'Alqam, and Beni Shi'bah they are allies Thev W p !
once good friends of the Bahr Ibn Sekeinah, but relations hav
been strained since the Seyyid Mustafa episode. Before the Idrisi
arose they were under the domination of the Turks, but since Ms
revolt they have entirely thrown off their yoke. During the last
few years the road to Muha'il from Ibha, Athalif, has been
closed to the Turks, and frequent dashes are made to the main
Muha il-Ibha road when news is received that a Turkish convov is
passing through.
They support the Idrisi as equals, rather than as subjects, and
will neither consent to pay him taxes nor suffer his officers to rule
them.
They have a code of justice amongst themselves which is fairly
rough and ready, but is rigidly enforced. Murder is severely
punished, sometimes by death, sometimes by the payment of
blood-money ; theft, after two warnings and when proved by
witnesses on oath, by the loss of a hand. There is a fixed dowry,
both for rich and poor, of P 120, and plurality of wives is the excep
tion. There is a strong feeling against divorce without adequate
reason. A man is considered justified in taking a second wife if
the first fails to bear him children, but such a failure is not a suffi
cient excuse for a divorce.
Paramount Sheikh : Ibrahim ibn Muta'ali and his son, Ahmed
ibn Muta'ali. 17,000 men.
1. Beni Qutahah. Chief Sheikh : Ahmed ibn Mufraj. 2,500
men in
Wadi
A seasonal or intermittent watercourse, or the valley in which it flows.
'Us.
Chief villages :—
Beit Shaji' Mohammed ibn Shaji'.
A1 Umm Shabi Mohammed ibn Musallat.
A1 Umm Mas'am 'AH ibn 'Amr.
A1 'Amr 'Amr ibn 'Ali.
Ghanmah Ahmed ibn 'Amr,
Umm Jiza' Mohammed Abu Rubah.
. Umm Dhaharah Mohammed el-'Askari.
Beni 'Abidin Ibrahim Abu Rubah.
Sha'bein Sherif 'Abdillah.
Athalif Ibrahim el-Hufdhi.
Ashraf gherif 'Abd ibn Abdullah.
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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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- '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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