'Handbook of Hejaz' [29r] (64/204)
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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— 42 —
3, 'Abud.
Sub-Sections:—
Jibdrah, Al Khalad, Dawaniyah, Al Ashdshamah,
Dihasah, Hitamah.
4. Dara in.
Hamud Ibn Daran.
Sub-Sections:—
Muheyya, Jasafin, Dhawi Khalifah, Dhawi * Abdullah.
5c Nafarin.
Sultan Ibn Sanhut.
Sub-Sections:—
Jidah, NiJchdshah, Nifa.
8.—ASHRAF.
The Ashraf in general are the descendants of Hasan,
who was son of f Ali and Fatimah, and through the flatter
grandson of the Prophet. There are said to be twenty-one
clans of this descent scattered over Arabia, of which fifteen
live wholly or in part in Hejaz or North-west Asir, and
chiefly in and near Mecca. For the most part numerically
small, they derive importance from the consideration which
their individual members enjoy throughout Arabia. The
Emirs (Grand Sherifs) of Mecca have been derived from
one or another branch of the descendants of Abu Numeyi
(who was of the Qatadah stock) for so many centuries, that
succession to this office is, in practice, as much confined by
prescription to two or three only of these clans, as the Sul
tanate of Turkey is to the House of Othman.
The mutual affinities, the interconnection, and the present
condition of the Ashraf clans, are not well known ; and
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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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