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'Handbook of Hejaz' [27r] (60/204)
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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— 88 —
sectional and sub-sectional arrangement, given below, can
only be provisional. No sub-section, however, is named
upon whose existence and relation to a section two good
authorities, at least, do not agree. Sheikhs' names are given
with all reserves.
The Hejaz Harb include all the Beni Salim, most of the f Auf
and Zobeid sub-sections of the Masruh, and most of the Beni
'Amr. These are cultivators, fishermen, and carriers for the
greater parfc, and not camel breeders; but they include many
nomads, e.g. the bulk of the Subh sub-section of the Beni Salim,
and several f Auf clans, notorious for predatory instincts and
life. The Zobeid as a whole are settled along the coast
from near Yambo' down to Serom, south of Jiddah, their
centre being at Rabugh ; and there is also an Asir section
south of Lith {see " Asir Handbook," p. 29).
The Harb of the North-east are mainly c Auf and Beni 1 Amr.
The latter own most of the date gardens near Medina, and
one of the sub-sections of the former, the Beni 'AH (a
turbulent lot of Shiahs), cultivate those about Kubah in the
'Awali plains.
The total strength of the Harb may be over two hundred
thousand souls. The tribe recognizes no one paramount
chief, and the Turks used to employ various persons to deal
with the clans in different districts. Of these the most
influential seems to have been, and to be, the " Emir el-
Harb," Ahmed el-Mansiir, whose vague authority is accepted
(under the King) more or less throughout the western
part of the Harb country, if not more widely.
Taking the Harb as having only two main sections, we
arrange the clans as below. But it must be stated empha
tically that the sub-sections, even if here assigned to their
proper relations, are not to be assumed to form political
unities because so grouped. The same caution applies also
to the clans. It is very doubtful indeed how far any sectional
and sub-sectional arrangement is valid in the case of
the Harb ; and probably, for practical purposes, it would
be more useful to regard the tribe as a collection of clans
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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).
- 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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- 'Handbook of Hejaz'
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- 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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