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'Arabia. Handbooks prepared under the direction of the Historical Section of the Foreign Office - no 90' [16] (31/148)
The record is made up of 1 volume (69 folios). It was created in 1919. It was written in English. The original is part of the British Library: India Office The department of the British Government to which the Government of India reported between 1858 and 1947. The successor to the Court of Directors. Records and Private Papers Documents collected in a private capacity. .
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16
POLITICAL HISTORY
communities, settled, half-settled, and nomadic, which
give effective allegiance to none of the above, but only
to their own chiefs. These are to be found mainly in
the hinterland of Yemen, in the Asir highlands, in)
the interior of Oman, and all round the northern fringe
of the Nefud Desert, which divides Arabia proper
from the " Syrian Desert " or Hamad. In this last
region account must be taken of three tribal groups
especially, whose activities tend to encroach on parts
of Arabia proper—the Saadun chiefdom among the
Muntafik, the Hadhdhal chiefdom among; the Amarat,
and the Shaalan chiefdom of the Ruwalla. The last
is established in the oasis of Jauf, on the northern edge
of the Nefud, and has designs on Jebel Shammar to
the south. The other two belong to the great Anaize
group of tribes, which dominates the Syrian Desert,
and makes it one in general social character with
central Arabia.
This parcelling of the peninsula among many
autonomous States is of immemorial antiquity. The
peculiar geographical conditions of the country hardly
admit of settled life, except in oases isolated by desert,
or in wadis divided by rugged and comparatively
barren ridges; and it is only by virtue of some peculiar
source of wealth, some spiritual idea, or, lastly, some
external strength, that larger territorial dominions
have been established and maintained here and there.
To understand the position and claims of thos^
existent to-day, it is necessary to review very briefly
a long period stretch ino- back to the thirteenth cen
tury. By that epoch the whole peninsula had come
to accept, in theory, the one religion of Islam, but with
much variety of dogma and practice. Shia tenets had
prevailed in highland Yemen and its back hinterland,
as well as among some Beduin tribes of the centre, in
Hasa, and even, to some extent, in Hejaz and Medina
itself; and Oman had become mainly Ibadhi The
overlordship of the Abbasid Caliphs of Baghdad had
become ineffective: and with its decline two of the most
important princedoms, which survive to this day, had
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This volume contains information on the geography, political history and economic conditions of Arabia and was published by the Historical Section of the Foreign Office in April 1919.
It is divided into four sections: 'Geography Physical and Political'; 'Political History'; 'Political Conditions' and 'Economic Conditions'. There is an Appendix, containing tables regarding trade in Aden, Muscat and Bahrein, 1909-1917.
There is a map 'Sketch Map of the Persian Gulf The historical term used to describe the body of water between the Arabian Peninsula and Iran. and Arabia', compiled by the War Office on June 1914.
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- 1 volume (69 folios)
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Foliation: There is a foliation sequence, which is circled in pencil, in the top right corner of the recto The front of a sheet of paper or leaf, often abbreviated to 'r'. of each folio. It begins on the first folio with text, on number 1, and ends on the map on a sleeve on the inside back cover, on number 70.
Pagination: There is also an original pagination, iv-vi, 2-127.
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- 'Arabia. Handbooks prepared under the direction of the Historical Section of the Foreign Office - no 90'
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- front, back, spine, edge, head, tail, front-i, i-r:i-v, 1:6, 1:130, ii-r:ii-v, back-i
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