"دليل الجزيرة العربية المجلد II" [‎١‎٠‎٩‎٧] (٦٨٨/١٤٠)

LAI—LAM
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L ATM UN (W adi)—
The largest and most important tributary of Wadi Fatimah {q .v.) in Hejaz. Doughty
suggests that this name is a corruption of Wadi-al-Aiman, the right-hand valley.
LAIYAH—
A detached quarter of Sharjah town {q .v.) in Trucial 'Oman.
LAJAL (W adi)—
A valley coming down from the Western Hajar in the 'Oman Sultanate and reaching
the Batinah coast near Rumais. In the upper part of its basin are two villages, Lajal
to the west and Halban to the east, about 4 miles apart, with a third village Fara' between
them : Lajal contains about 100 mud houses of the Bani Na'ab tribe; it is built in two
fortified quarters upon the hills, overlooking dategroves and other cultivation in the
valley below. Halban stands at the foot of the Hajar hills and consists of 30 mud houses
and a tower belonging to the Bani Jabir; lucerne is grown here. The village of Fara'
consists of only 1 or 2 houses. The livestock of this group of villages compries 100
camels, 50 donkeys, 50 cattle and 700 sheep and goats ; and wheat, barley and sucerno
are cultivated. The trade of Wadi Lajal is with Barkah.
LAJAL—
A village in the valley of the same name {q .v.).
LAJAM—
One of the villages in the Qatif oasis {q.v.).
LAJAM (Al)—
One of the sections of the Al Shibil, one of the rural tribes of 'Iraq {q .v.).
LAJJ—
A long reach of the river Tigris {q .v.), extending above and below the mouth of the
Nahr-ash-Shahail canal, between Ctesiphon and 'Aziziyah. Lajj is also the name of a
riverside tract, in the same locality, on the left bank of the river ; the Lajj tract comes
next below that of Khannasah and above that of 'Owain.
LAJJ—
A reach and also a tract on the left bank of the Tigris {q .v.) between those of
Khannasah and 'Owain.
LA'LA (Jabal)—
A hill, in the Qararah quarter of Mecca, on which are the ruins of a strong fort built by
Sharif Ghalib.— {Burckhardt, 1815.)
LALYAH—
A well and date plantation in Barr-adh-Dhahran {q. v.) in the Hasa district of eastren
Arabia.
LAM (Bani)—
A numerous and important Shiy'ah tribe on the Tigris. Boundaries : on right bank
from Umm-al- 'Uruq, ten miles above Shaikh Sa'ad, to Dujailah Canal, six miles above
Kumait. On left bank, from Sanna'iyat, 14 miles above Shaikh Sa'ad, to 'Amarah,
and extending to the Persian frontier from neighbourhood of a Badrai on west to Hawizeh
on east.
The sections of the tribe are;—
1. Bait Madhkur.
2. Bait 'Ali Khan.
3. Bait Jindil.
4. Bait Arar.
5. Bait 'Abdul Khan.
6. Al Baji.
7. Khasraj.
8. Lawaimi.
9. Sarkhah.
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