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'Handbook of Hejaz' [23v] (53/204)
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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the Imaret. The city is divided into thirteen quarters: on
the east 3 Maabda, Sheib 'Amir, Suq el-Leil, Qushashryah,
Jiyad, Masfalah ; on the west, Suleimaniyah, Naqa, Qarara,
Shamiyah, Shobeikah; on the north, Haret el-Bab, Jarwal.
The public buildings include a court house, post office,
and other Government offices ; there are also baths, a hos
pital, and hospices for poor pilgrims from India, Java, etc.,
three schools and ten Jcuttabs, and a public library. The
royal residence in known as the Imaret. Slaves are still
exposed for sale in certain Khans. The city receives from,
rather than pays to, the Grovernment, as it did also in the
time of the Turks. Military service is not obligatory, but
there is a good deal of " compulsory volunteering." A
petroleum engine for a flour mill, turning out about 1| tons
of flour daily, was set up in 1909, and in January 1912 two
others of the same size had been imported and were being
set up ; they are all of British manufacture. Telegraph to
Jiddah and Ta'if, and telephone to Jiddah.
Ta/if is a walled town, situated in a sandy plain sur
rounded by low hills, on the high plateau about seventy-five
miles south-east of Mecca, at an elevation of about 5,000 feet.
It is the summer residence of the King, his palace standing
within the Bab es-Seil with an open space before it. The
citadel is on the west side of the town. The houses are
built of stone, the larger ones covered with plaster. The
town is fully inhabited only in the summer months, when
the more wealthy Meccans remove there from the capital.
It is much cooler than Mecca, and has a plentiful water
supply. Both in climate and physical character the dis
trict resembles the highlands of Asir and Yemen, the
monsoon or tropical rains, which are unknown elsewhere in
Hejaz, falling heavily in the early autumn. Water is
obtained from abundant springs and brooks, the principal
stream, the Sell, being beautifully clear but lukewarm.
Beyond the reach of the brooks irrigation is carried on
from shallow pits, the water being drawn by small Arabian
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- Content
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).
- Extent and format
- 1 volume (98 folios)
- Arrangement
The volume contains a table of contents on folio 7.
- Physical characteristics
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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- Title
- 'Handbook of Hejaz'
- Pages
- front, back, spine, edge, head, tail, front-i, 2r:3v, 5r:99v, back-i
- Author
- East India Company, the Board of Control, the India Office, or other British Government Department
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- Open Government Licence