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HAM—HAM
H AMD AH (1l Bt) (T ribe)—
See Hillah (Qadah).
HAMDAH (A l B u ) (T ribe)—
See Sultan (Al Bu.)
HAMDAN—
A town in 'Iraq on the side of the Shatt-al-'Arab, about 2-7 of the way from
Basrah to Muhammareh Town; it is situated 2J miles up a creek of the same name,
of which the entrance is GJ miles by river below the old British Consulate at Basrah
and opposite to YSmin on 'Ajairawlyah island.
The town stands on both sides of the creek, the portion on the north-western bank
being, however, J a mile distant from it. The population of Hamdan is about 11,000
souls, of whom the majority are Muhaisin of the Bait Kana'an section. There are 30
to 40 houses well built of bricks and mud, but the rest of the dwellings are huts. Grazing
is good and cattle numerous. Date palms are estimated at 150,000 trees, and livestock
at 2,500 cattle, 1,000 sheep and goats, 40 horses and 200 donkeys.
Within the Hamdan creek, and so not visible from the Shatt-al-Arab, are a tomb
visited by Shi'ahs and a shrine respected by Sunnis ; the former appears to be a cenotaph,
as it is admitted that the Imam Hamzah whom it commemorates neither lived nor died
at Hamdan.— (Gazetteer of the Persian Gulf.)
HAMDAN (T ribe)—
See Dawasir (Tribe); Farjan sub-division of the Al Hasan.
HAMDAN (A l)—
One of the sections of the Fuqarah tribe [q.v.).
HAMDAN (A l B u ) (T ribe)—
See Sa'ad (Bait.)
HAMDAN (A l B u ) (T ribe)—
See Turuf (Bani).
HAMDAN-AJ-SAGHIR—
See 'Arab (Shatt-al); right bank from Basrah to Muhammareh.
HAMDH (W adi)—
One of the largest and best known watercourses in western Arabia. It rises in the water
shed which extends south-east from the Harrat Khaibar towards the Hazam-ar-Raji
plain, and appears to have its actual source some miles to the south-west of Abu Mughair
on the Hail-Mecca section of the Persian Hajj route. The course of the Wadi Hamdh,
which is very winding, is about 400 miles in length and has a general direction of west by
north.
The Wadi Hamdh passes close to the city of Al-Madmah, and between it and Jabal
Ohod ; and nearly 100 miles lower down it is crossed by the Hejaz railway near Hadiyah.
It reaches the coast at a point about 32 miles south of Al-Wajj, but its mouth is not
well-defined and is scarcely discernible from the sea. Except after heavy rain it is dry
almost throughout its entire length. The principal tributaries of the Wadi Hamdh are
Wadi 'Aqlq, near Al-Madlnah, and Wadi Jizl which joins it about 30 miles to the west
of Hadiyah; and in addition it receives the drainage from the western portions of the
Harrat Khaibar.
HAMDI (A l Bti) (T ribe)—
See Ka'ab; Khanafireh division.
HAMI—
A small coastal vUlage in southern Arabia, lying about 16 miles east of Shihair It is
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