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'Handbook of Hejaz. Prepared by the Arab Bureau, Cairo.' [102] (118/198)
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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— 102 —
and still more the Dhawi Hasan further to the south,
render it unsafe.
3.—Inland Routes.
Three tracks, at least (with variants), are used by pilgrims
between Medina and Mecca :—
(а) Darb esh-Skarqi, lying farthest inland, and crossing
patches of harrah (Route No. 10).
(б) Gaha and Fura group, mountain tracks with regular
wells ; fairly safe ; and the most direct, but not winter
routes. Little used (Route No. 9).
(c) Darb es-Sultani, the most travelled, but longest route
(Route No. 9).
The tura and Gaha tracks appear as pendants to Route
No. 9.
All three routes traverse much mountainous country,
but little or no sand desert.
Ihe Dath es-Sulta/ii (Route No. 9), is the only one
protected at points by blockhouses, and supplied with
roadside markets and coffee-shops. Between Medina and
Rabugh the same line is not always followed, it being often
advisable to avoid this or that clan of the Harb, which holds
the country along two-thirds of the route. Not infrequently
all roads between Medina and Mecca have been closed by
the action of this tribe.
^ I^arb es-Sultani rims through rugged hills from Bir
' Ali to Wasta and through oases in
Wadi
A seasonal or intermittent watercourse, or the valley in which it flows.
Safrah; but for
the rest, it lies in the main in thin sandy, but not unfertile,
country, until W adi Fatimah is reached. On or near its
line was'to run the projected extension of the Hejaz
railway, whose construction the Harb tribesmen have
successfully frustrated hitherto. The Harb fear the loss of
the gains, legitimate and illegitimate, which they derive
from the passage of pilgrim caravans, while the Emir of
Mecca used to fear the rivetting of the Ottoman hold on
Hejaz.
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- Content
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.'
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- 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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