"دليل الجزيرة العربية المجلد I" [‎٢‎١‎٥] (١٠٥٠/٢٣٠)

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, Ara , —
A conspicuous ridge 4,020 feet high in western central Arabia, lying astride the Persian
Hajj route. This ridge runs practically due north and south, and is about 15 miles in
length, the centre of it being about 120 miles north-east of Mecca.
ARFA—
The name of a small stream in southern Arabia which flows into the Gulf of Aden, a
mile or so to the east of the town of Shihair.—(J5e^, 1894.)
'ARFAJ (T bibe)—.
See Bawasir (Tribe); Farjan sub-division of the Al Hasan-
'ARFAJlYAH—
See Kuwait (Principality).
'ARFAIYAH—
See Sirhan (Wadi).
ARFFAN ( Tbibe)—
See Mutair (Tribe).
ARG (A l)—
A hamlet near the town of Najaf, in north-eastern Arabia. It is situated near the
south-western edge of the Bahr-an-Najaf, and about 16 miles north-north-west of the
village of Rahabah past which runs the Darb Zubaidah.
ARGUBAN ( Jabal)—
A large hill situated 12 or 15 miles to the north-eastward of Kaf, in north-west Arabia.
ARH (Wadi)—
See Zabid (Wadi).
ARHAB—
A tribal district in southern Yemen lying immediately to the north-east of Sana'a.
ARHIYAH—
A hill in the Kuwait Principality, in north-eastern Arabia, situated nearly 14 miles
^est of the Jadidiyah wells, and rather more than 20 miles west-south-west from
Kuwait.
ARIATAIN (J abal)—
A small mountain in north-western Arabia, situated about 10 miles northward from
Qasr-al-Azraq.— {Butler and Aylmer, January 1908.) f
tfote.—This name is possibly a Syrian corruption of Qariaiain, meaning " Two villages C. G. R. M,
'ARIDAN (J abal).—
A hill situated from 20 to 25 miles south-south-west from Sija in south-western Najd,
the junction of the Hajj routes from Qasim and Riyadh.— {Doughty.)
'ARIDH (B ani)—
A tract in the Samawah Qadha {q.v.) in 'Iraq, and also a small section of the
Khaza'ii tribe inhabiting that tract.