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BlTINAH 405'
Place.
Position.
Houses
and
Inhabitants.
Remarks.
^bbasah
On the sea 1J miles
east Of Khaburak
150 huts of Bam
Khalid and Al Bu
Rashaid.
There are 500 date
palms: the people
also fish and have
many small boats.
Warli-al-Hawasinah
falls into the sea be
tween this place and
Khaburah.
Khaburah
....
....
See article Khaburab.
Qasaf .,
One hour inland
from Khaburah on
the right bank of
W adi-al-Hawasinah.
40 houses of
Hawasinah.
livestock are 14
horses, 20 camels, 40
donkeys, 20 cattle
and 1,000 sheep and
goats : and there are
8,000 date palms.
The number of date palms has perhaps been generally underestimated in the above
table.
The following places in Batinah have not been exactly located:—
Place.
Position.
Houses
and
inhabitants.
Remarks. £ .
Ohalil ..
Uncertain
Masa'id and Hinadis.
Firewood is exported
to Masqat Town.
Sabaikhi
Do.
50 houses
The people are fisher^
men and cultivators
owning 1,000 date
palms.
BlTINAH—
See Badi'.
BATINAH (Jazirat-al)—
See Biyadh.
BlTINAH (Maqta'-al)—
An arm of the sea which cuts off Jazirat-al-Batinah {q.v.).
BATINlYAH—
According to Palgrave, this is the name of a number of sects, originating in 'Oman
and widely diffused through Al-Hasa, whose tendencies are a bitter and resolute oppo
sition to Islam especially in its Wahhabi form. It seems, however, that the Batiniyah
were Ibadhis who objected, not to Islam, but to what they considered the heresy of
Wahhabism. There is now no particular sect called Batiniyah, and the feeling has cer^
tamly died out in Al-Hasa if not in 'Oman also. The term Batiniyah was perhaps first
applied in a general way to the people of the Batinah coast.— (Murvhy )
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