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'Handbook of Hejaz' [‎8v] (23/204)

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The record is made up of 1 volume (98 folios). It was created in 1917. 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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HANDBOOK OF HEJAZ.
I.—AREA.
When it was a vilayet of the Ottoman Empire, " Hejaz"
meant the north-western littoral province of Arabia, from
the head of the Gulf of Akaba to a point between Lith and
Qunfudah, about half-way down the east Red Sea coast,
i .e. from 30° north latitude to 20°. Its inland boundary
was not defined, being dependent on the distance to which
the Turkish power had been able to make itself felt, at
different periods, in the direction of Jebel Shammar and
Nejd. Under the Ottoman theoretic arrangement, both
these latter districts were included in the vilayet of Basra,
and Hejaz was understood to be bounded by a line drawn
vertically from north to south through the desert and
steppe east of Teima. But really the limit of effective
Turkish authority, and therefore of the vilayet of Hejaz,
was never pushed east of the Kheibar Oasis. The province
measured, therefore, about 700 miles from north to south
by some 250 miles west to east (175,000 square miles).
The term Hejaz," however, in strict Arab usage,
especially when the Holy Land is thought of. is not applied
so widely, the northern limit being a line drawn inland
from the Red Sea coast, just south of Wejh to El- ! Ala and
across the steppe-desert to the northernmost point of the
Harrat Kheibar, Midian and its hinterland (Hismah) being
excluded.
But, for the purpose of this Handbook, which is to include
all the northern littoral on the east of the Red Sea, Hejaz
will be understood in its wider signification as reaching from
Akaba to lith and including Midian. Inland, however,

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The volume is Handbook of Hejaz. Prepared by The Arab Bureau, Cairo , 2nd edn, 26 February 1917 (Cairo: Government Press, 1917).

The handbook comprises information about Hejaz under the following headings:

  • Area;
  • Physical Character;
  • Population;
  • Districts and Towns;
  • Tribal Notes;
  • Political;
  • Personalities (including Royal Family, and Others);
  • Pilgrimage;
  • Trade and Expenses;
  • Communications;
  • Routes.

The prefatory note states that the handbook was originally compiled by Lieutenant Commander D G Howarth, RNVR; and although the information contained in the second edition had been greatly improved, much about Hejaz 'remains uncertain or unknown'.

The volume also contains an 'Outline Map of Hejaz' (f 4) and a table of the 'Ruling Sherifial Family of Mecca' (f 38).

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1 volume (98 folios)
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The volume contains a table of contents on folio 7.

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Foliation: the foliation sequence commences at 1 on the front cover and terminates at 100 on the inside back cover. The numbers are written in pencil, are enclosed in a circle, and appear in the top right hand corner of the recto The front of a sheet of paper or leaf, often abbreviated to 'r'. page of each folio. This is the system used to make reference to the contents of the volume. Folios 4 and 38 need to be folded out to be examined.

Pagination: the volume also contains an original printed pagination sequence, numbered 2-179 (ff 8-98).

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English in Latin script
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