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'Military Report on Iraq (Area 6 Lower Euphrates)' [132v] (269/452)
The record is made up of One Volume (421 pages). It was created in 1923. It was written in English. 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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248
AL MUJARRAH.
Constituents.
A1 Dujain.
A1 Hachcham.
A1 Hasan.
Khafajah.
Ahl al Kut.
A1 Muminin.
Mutarrat.
Al Nawwas.
Nuwashi.
Al Shaddud.
Shuwalish.
Thaminiyan.
Al Zayyad
The Mujarrah is a powerful confederation, which from time
immemorial has been at war with the Bani Khaiqan and which has
remained more faithful than the latter to ’Ajaimi and the Muntafiq
influence. The tribes are turbulent, well-armed and form a far
more dangerous confederation than the Bani Khaiqan. In the last
11 years of their administration the Turks made three unsuccessful
expeditions against them. Their wealth in dates and rice is remark
able, and yet the tribes living below the Hachcham had not paid
revenue to the Turks for the last eight years. The merchants of
Nasiriyah and Suq own much property in the Mujarrah territory
below Suq, but for over 14 years they have taken complete posses
sion and refuse to allow the owner to approach his property on pain
of death. The Mujarrah tribes fall mainly into three large groups,
Al Hachcham, Al Hasan and Al Shaddud.
Though the Mujarrah form a confederation of tribes closely
knit together, yet they acknowledge no paramount chief. The
Mujarrah, however, at the present are politically divided into two,
traceable to the hostility sh jwn to the paramount Shaikhs of the
constituent tribes, so that it is possible from a diplomatic point of
view to maintain a balance of power and not to allow the confedera
tion to act with one mind. Bach side of t is division assists the
other in private warfare and, though combining for the defence of
the Mujarrah as a whole, it would be bad diplomacy if the con
federation as a whole combined against Government. The division
is as follows :—
Al Shalawiyah
Al Sarah .
Mushairjah
Gharyafiyah
Albu Humaidi
‘idris versus Haji Husain.
Hammudah versus Albu Jasim.
Faisal al Yasir versus al ’Obaid.
Haji Shahuo versus Shinyar.
Yasir al Cholan versus Dukhaiyil al
Mozan.
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This volume was compiled as one of ten military reports to aid British military operations in Iraq published by the General Staff of British Forces in Iraq. It covers Area 6, or Lower Euphrates and contains chapters that cover the history, geography, climate, ethnography, natural resources, as well as the tribal makeup of region. The final chapters are devoted to important personalities, and communications infrastructure.
The volume is particularly detailed given that the area it covers was the site of a major anti-British insurrection in 1920. As such it is particularly detailed on the political and demographic makeup of the region and its people.
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Foliation: the foliation sequence for this description commences at the front cover with 1, and terminates at the inside back cover with 224; these numbers are written in pencil, are circled, and are located in the top right corner of the recto The front of a sheet of paper or leaf, often abbreviated to 'r'. side of each folio.
Pagination: the volume also contains an original printed pagination sequence.
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