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'Arabia. Handbooks prepared under the direction of the Historical Section of the Foreign Office - no 90' [21] (36/148)
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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Arabia] EMIRATE OF JEBEL SHAMMAR 21
vassals during the dark days of Egyptian occupation.
By 1847 a sheikhly house of the Abdah Shammar, the
Beni Rashid, had thrown off all external allegiance, and
constituted an independent Emirate in Hail. Though
thus derived from Nejd.and owing, perhaps, to Nejd its
idea of Emirate, as it certainly did its Wahabism, the
Jebel Shammar principate rests on a different social
and economic basis. It holds, and has organised, a
district which has been for ages the metropolitan yied
a terre of a great Beduin society, now Shammar, but
once Tayi; and it has focussed that society on itself at
a point which is a necessary halt on the shortest road
from the Shia holy cities and Baghdad to Medina or
Mecca. Since the first century of Islam the Persian
Haj caravans have emerged at Hail from the Northern
Desert, and there gathered their forces to face
the fatigues and dangers of the other half of their
road. Their passage gives Jebel Shammar a political
relation with the outside world and an economic re
source which the Emirate of Nejd envies and has tried
again and again, but with no lasting success, to divert
to itself by forcing the Ha j is to take longer routes to
southward.
The rivalry of these Emirates of the south and the
north has made history in central Arabia for more than
half a century past. Hail naturally tends to look for
any extraneous support to the lords of Irak; Riad
faute de mieux to the lords of the
Persian Gulf
The historical term used to describe the body of water between the Arabian Peninsula and Iran.
.
The power of the Emir of Nejd is based on the larger
territory, but one so poor and savage that he must
always seek to extend his sway to richer Gulf lands.
The Emir of Jebel Shammar is better assured of
his revenue, but not of home-grown food. In the
geographical interval between the two lies their chief
bone of contention, the oases of Kasim, strung out along
the middle course of the
Wadi
A seasonal or intermittent watercourse, or the valley in which it flows.
Rumma on the easiest
trans-peninsular route from the head of the Persian
Gulf. Given to commerce, the home of the Ageyl
carriers who travel all northern and central Arabia
and Syria as well, rich and progressive in comparison
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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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- East India Company, the Board of Control, the India Office, or other British Government Department
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