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'Handbook of Hejaz. Prepared by the Arab Bureau, Cairo.' [70] (86/198)
The record is made up of 1 volume (99 folios). It was created in 26 Feb 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.
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s Ali Sharkasi (Sheikh).
Of Mecca. Member of the Emir's Legislative Council
representing the secular element.
Anwar Eshji.
Of Medina; of a Turkish family long domiciled there.
Ka is el-Baladiyah.
Asa'd Dham Ibn Ahmed (Sheikh).
Of Mecca. A favourite Councillor of the Kina. A man
of medium height, pale round face with dark eyes^nd white
beard. About sixty.
'Asi Ibn Atiyah.
< 5 r T al T of . Sel ™ i ]bn Harb [q.v.) for chiefship of the Beni
Atiyah. Joined SherifFeisal in February 1917. Important.
Atas Hadhrami.
Of Jiddah. One of the chief 'ulema and a merchant,
owning dhows and trading in grain with Midi. Age about
forty. Anti-Turk.
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Audah Ibn Zuweid.
Is a Yambo c man, leader of the Kifa'i Juheinah (261
camel-men 836 infantry). Is about forty. An intelligent-
wokmg dark short man, with a goat-like chin-beard, long
mouth, thm hps, generally pursed, but often wrinkling into
a wise and contented smile. Eyes slant slightly upward,
and have a confirmed twinkle. Is greedy, friendly to
foreigners, and usually good-humoured, but liable to fits
o temper, during one of which he says he threw over to
,i e . s 0 Yambo harbour two German orderlies of
the Stotzmgen Mission. This is, in his opinion, his greatest
achievement; but Yambo r people are confident that the
mc'dent never occurred. He aided the escape of some of
the Mission by land, and robbed them half-way to Umlej.
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Second edition of the Handbook of Hejaz. The first edition was compiled by Lieutenant Commander David George Hogarth, Director of the Arab Bureau, in June 1916, however the development of events in Hejaz, along with improved knowledge of the area and a large number of errors in the first edition resulted in a second edition being produced so soon afterwards.
The contents of the handbook include:
- Area
- Physical Character (Relief, Climate)
- Population (Oasis Life, Urban Life, Beduin Life)
- Districts and Towns (Northern, Central and Southern Districts)
- Tribal Notes (Huweitât, 'Atîyah, Moahib, Billi, Juheinah, Harb, 'Ateibah, Ashrâf, Hudheil, Faham, Juhâdlah, Mahdi; Sa'd, Thaqif, Mâlik, Nasri)
- Political (Government, Recent History and Politics)
- Personalities (Ruling Family, Others)
- Pilgrimage
- Trade and Industries (Export and Imports, Currency, Weights and Measures)
- Communications (Northern Coastal Routes, Southern Coastal Routes, Inland Routes, Central Routes)
- Routes (Akaba-Mâ'an, Akaba-Mecca, Muweilah-Tebûk, Wejh-El-'Ala, Wejh-Medina, Jiddah-Mecca, Jiddah-Lîth, Medina-Mecca (Darb-es-Sultâni), Medina-Mecca (Darb esh-Sharqi), Tâ'if-Mecca, Mâ'an-Medina (Hejaz Railway), Mu'adhdham-Teima; Medina-Mustajiddah (Hâ'il), Medina-Rass (Qasîm), Mecca-Mustajiddah-Hâ'il, Mecca-Qasîm and Riyâdh)
Folio 4 contains an outline map of Hejaz and Folio 38 of the handbook contains a genealogical table for the Ruling Sheifial Family of Mecca from 1827 onwards.
- Extent and format
- 1 volume (99 folios)
- Arrangement
A contents page is located on folio 7.
- Physical characteristics
Foliation: The handbook has been foliated from the front to back covers using a pencil number enclosed in a circle located in the top right hand corner of the recto The front of a sheet of paper or leaf, often abbreviated to 'r'. of each folio. The folio number for folio 4 has been written on the verso The back of a sheet of paper or leaf, often abbreviated to 'v'. of the folio.
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- English in Latin script View the complete information for this record
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- Title
- 'Handbook of Hejaz. Prepared by the Arab Bureau, Cairo.'
- Pages
- front, front-i, i-r:iii-r, 1:6, 1:60, 60b, 61:180, back-i, back
- Author
- East India Company, the Board of Control, the India Office, or other British Government Department
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