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NA'ASAH—
The name of a locality on the left bank of the Tigris (/. ?.) opposite Shaikh Sa'ad.
NA'ASAN (UMM)—
A low desert island of the Bahrain group, lying about 2 miles off the west coast of
Bahrain Island and measuring less than 4 miles in length from north to south by about
2h miles in breadth. It has two rather remarkable peaks of inconsiderable height and
furnishes the best cement used for building in Bahrain. There is a fresh-water spring
near the west coast of the island. The Dawasir of Budaiya' and ZaIIaq on Bahrain
Island send their cattle to Umm Na'asan in the hot weather to benefit by a little grazing
which exists at that season,— (Persian Out/ Gazetteer )
NA 'AT—
A village in Yemen on the route from Sa'dhah to Sana'a, and situated 28 miles north by
west from the latter.
KA'ATHIL—
One of the three large wards of Hofuf town {q. p.) in the Hasa district of eastern Arabia,
NABA' (Q asr)—
Shown on certain maps as Qasr Xabah ; in the Euphrates valley, on the edge of the
Shamiyah desert, 31 miles from Khamisiyah on the route to Samawah. There is a
qasr here, now in ruins, the property of the Sa'adun family. Standing in the same
depression is a pond of good water, only slightly brackish. The water supply could
be greatly increased by digging water-pits. Qasr Naba 1 is about 10 miles north-west
ward from Abul Ghar.—( Leach man,)
NABA'AH—
The name of a locality on the left bank of the Tigris {q. v.), between Kut-al-Amarah
and Shaikh Sa'ad.
NABA'AH—
A Bedouin camping ground, with water, in Biyadh [q. v., Part III), in Hasa, eastern
Arabia,
NABAHINAH or NABHAN (B ani)—
Singular Nabhani. A tribe of merely historical importance, who furnished the rulers
of 'Oman at the end of the 16th and beginning of the 17th century. They are now few
in numbers, and are found at Sharqatain in Wadi Samail, at Hammam-al -A 'li and
Sunub in Wadi Boshar and at Nakhl, having been expelled from their original
seats which were in Western Hajar about Yanqul and Maqniyat. The surviving
remnant are Ibadhis in religion and belong to the Ghafiri political faction ; they number
about 600 souls.— {Persian Gulf Gazetlces.)
NABAQ (A n)—
Some wells in Wadi Sirhan {q. v.), north-western Arabia.
NABAR—
A village in the Liwa sub-wilayat {q. v.), 'Oman Sultanate.
NABATAEANS—
A people of ancient Arabia, whose settlements in the time of Josephus gave the name
of Nabatene to the borderland between Syria and the Syrian desert, and Arabia proper,
from the Euphrates to the Red Sea. The history of the Nabataeans cannot be carried
back beyond 312 B. C., at which date they were attacked without success by Antigen' 3
I in their mountain fortress at Petra. They are described as being at this period a strong
tribe of some 10,000 men, pre-eminent among the nomadic Arabs, eschewing agriculture,
fixed abodes, and the use of wine, but adding to pastoral pursuits a profitable trade with
the seaports in myrrh and spices from Arabia Felix as well as a trade with Egypt in bitum* n
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