"دليل الجزيرة العربية المجلد I" [‎٩‎٦‎٥] (١٠٥٠/١٠٣٢)

JIS—JIZ
a hollow. Twenty-two miles to the west of Jirzawiyah the road from Qaslm to Al-Madl-
nah crosses Wadi-al-Mlyah.
JISASIMAH—
See 'Ataibah; Il5qah division.
JISHSH—■
See Qatif Oasis.
JISHSHAH—
See Hasa Oasis.
JISRA (A bu)—
A caravansarai, mid-way between Baghdad and Khanaqtn on the main route
between Mesopotamia and Persia. The sarai at Abu Jisra will accommodate 200 men
and horses, and there is plenty of camping space close by. The water-supply is from
canals and is good but muddy. There are quantities of sheep and goats; grazing is good
but luel is scarce. Supplies could be collected from neighbouring villages. Abu
Jirsa is not a usual halting place for caravans which generally go right through from
Ba qubah to Shahraban.
JISSAH (Bandar)—
An anchorage on the coast of the 'Oman Sultanate five miles south-east of Masqat
iaw i n: ^ 18 for med by a precipitous light-coloured island, 600 yards long and 140 feet high
WMich lies east and west across the entrance of a bay one mile in length and the same*
m depth. The entrance round the east end of the island is 280 yards broad with a depth
of 7 fathoms : the passage at the west end is nearly blocked by a flat rock which has only
1 2 fathoms on each side of it. The outline of the bay is indented, and there is an islet
towards the western side behind which, on the mainland, is a village of 60 houses of
Qawasim with a date grove: this village stands on a sandy beach at the mouth of
a valley and consists of a few stone houses and many mat huts. Hills rise all round the
harbour and at the back of the village to a height of some hundred feet. The harbour
is sheltered except from the north-east and would afford anchorage in 6 to 7 fathoms
for all classes of vessels except the largest: if proper moorings were laid down a fair
number of ships could be accommodated at the same time. The bottom appears to be
of sand throughout; there are a few detached rocks which could easily be removed.
The site is naturally adapted for fortification. Fresh water is somewhat scarce.
JISSAS—
See 'Oman Sultanate; Ghafiri Tribes.
JIZAH—
See Hejaz Railway.
JlZAH—
A small village in Syria lying roughly mid-way between Dera'a, on the Hejaz Rail-
way, and Bosra Eski Sham. Jizah is built on both sides of the valley, some 600 or 700
yards to the north of the road.
JIZAL (Wadi)—
A valley having its source in the southern highlands of the Hisma mountains It
trends roughly south-east and joins Wadi Hamdh south of Madain Salih.
In its upper reaches Wadi Jizal appears to be known as Wadi-al-Fara'. Doughty
describes it as a plain bottom, with some growth of cane reeds, receiving the drainage
of Jabal Jowla and Jabal Wuttid on the west and of the valleys and many breaches of
Jabal 'Awairidh on the east. This upper valley bottom just below Wadi-al-Fara' ia
called Wadi Najl (which receives the seyl waters from the Jau) and afterwards Wadi
Najid. Wadi Najid descends from a two-headed sandstone mountain, Shorafat-an-
Najid, and is crossed by the caravan route between Al-Wajj and Al-'Ali; it is two days