"دليل الجزيرة العربية المجلد II" [‎١‎٤‎٥‎٨] (٦٨٨/٥٣١)

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QALAIB—
Some wells in the Jafurah desert {q. v.) in eastern Arabia.
QALAILAH (A bu)—
A Bedouin camping ground in the interior of Qatar {q. v.), eastern Arabia.
QALAISIYAH—
A group of wells in the Qra'ah tract {q. v.) of the Kuwait Principality.
QALAIYIB—
One of the quarters of the large and scattered village of Paid {q. v.), in Jabal Sham mar,
central Arabia.
QALALI—
_ A Vllla g e o n the north-east coast of Muharraq Island in Bahrain. It consists of about
mud and reed huts with two good masonry houses, of which the one nearest to the sea
resembles a square tower and is a good mark for mariners. On the ground near the
square house lie three old iron guns, relics of former times but of uncertain origin. The
inhabitants of Qalali are all Sunnis, chiefly of the Manana'ah tribe (100 houses), engaged
in peail-dealing, pearl-diving and sea-fishing. About 60 sailing vessels belong to the
\ illage, viz., 55 Shu'ais and Sambuks and 4 Mashuwahs and jollyboats ; out of these 21
are used for pearling. There are ro dates nor cultivation : livestock are 12 donkeys and
2 cattle. The islet and spring of Jurdil ie off Qalali.
QALAM (B ait-al)—
One of the tribes of the 'Oman Sultanate {q. v.) of which the faction is indeterminate or
has not been ascertained. There are a few househoods of Bait-al-Qalam at Murbat, in
Dhufar, southern Arabia.
QAL'AT-AL- 'ASKAR—
One of the quarters of the town of Dohah {q. v.), the chief town of Qatar, eastern Arabia.
Before the explulsion from Qatar in 1913 the Turks used to call this quarter Qasr Kuna-
rah. It was in this suburb of Dohah that the Turkish troops used to be quartered
hence the name Qal'at-al-'Askar. '
QALBI ('Ain-al ; also Ardh-al)—
See Ma'an.
QALHAT.—
Or Kalhat (q.v.) ; a village on the coast of the 'Oman Sultanate.
QALIDDI* (Wadi-al)—
The name also appears in the forms Al-Qaldi and Liqladdi. A valley in the hills of
the Oman Promontory withm the limits of the Shaikhdom of Sharjah ; the route from
lias-al-Khaimah Town to Dibah lies up it. The pass from which Wadi-al-Qaliddi
apparently descends in a west-north-westerly direction to the neighbourhood of Khatt
in the J in plain seems to form the watershed between the two coasts and to be situated
about 11 miles m a straight line to the west-north-west of Dibah ; and the Qaliddi hill,
and KhS y I,am<! ' iS Said t0 0ce,,r ab ° ut
•Thb valley is shown in the map Route of Lieutemnt-Colonel Herbert DuUrouie, etc., 1865. "
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