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'Gazetteer of Arabia Vol. II' [1013] (50/688)
The record is made up of 1 volume (341 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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KAT -KAT
1013
Wali of Puslit-i-Kuh. The relations of Shaikh Farhan Asad are with the Persian officials
at Shushtar and those of Shaikh Haidar with the authorities at Dizful; consequently the
tribe may be regarded as divided between the t wo districts of Northern ' Arabistan. It
is a remarkable fact that of the Shaikhs—who are distantly related to one another—•
neither really belongs to the Kathir tribe, but both are of Bait Sa'ad extraction.
KATHlR—
A small tribe which once belonged to the Bani Khalid tribe, but now associated with
the Dhaflr {q. v.) of the right bank of the Euphrates about Samawah and Suq-ash-
Shuyukh.
kathir—
A section of the Fadhul tribe (q. v.) of Najd j they are probably identical with the
Kathran.
KATHIR (Al)—
Singular Kathiri. The principal tribe in Dhufar Proper where all the villages except
Taqa belong to them ; they are represented in the Samhan hills also by several sections,,
who act as a partial counterpoise there to the uncivilised Qaras. A few emigrants of
the tribe are settled at D5hah in the Masqat District near Masqat Town. The follow
ing table explains the sub-divisions and distribution of the Al Kathir :
Section.
Number of families.
Habitat.
Remarks.
'Ali-bin-Badr (Bait),
150
In the lower Samhan
hills immediately
behind Salalah.
Nil.
'Amr-bin-Muham
mad (Bait).
Fadhil (Al)
40
120
Salalah, etc.
At 'Auqad-al-Fadhil
and Dahaiiz.
Do.
Do.
Ghawwas (Bu)
150
At Salalah, and in
the Samhan hills.
Do.
Marahin
or
Marhun (Bait-al).
60
All at Salalah, except
a few at 'Auqad-al-
Marhun.
Do.
Muhammad- bin-
Hamad (Al).
150
In the Samhan hills
Do,
Shanafirah
225
At Hafah, etc.
This section are loyal
to the Sultan of
'Oman. Their
present Shaikhs
are Bakhit and 'Ali-
bin-'Umr. The
Shanafirah are
said to have been
originally 'Awamir
but they are now-
reckoned to the Al
Kathir.
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Volume II of III of the Gazetteer of Arabia. The Gazetteer is alphabetically-arranged and this volume contains entries K through to R.
The Gazetteer is an alphabetically-arranged compendium of the tribes, clans and geographical features (including towns, villages, lakes, mountains and wells) of Arabia that is contained within three seperate bound volumes. The entries range from short descriptions of one or two sentences to longer entries of several pages for places such as Iraq and Yemen.
A brief introduction states that the gazetteer was originally intended to deal with the whole of Arabia, "south of a line drawn from the head of the Gulf of 'Aqabah, through Ma'an, to Abu Kamal on the Euphrates, and to include Baghdad and Basrah Wilayats" and notes that before the gazetteer could be completed its publication was postponed and that therefore the three volumes that now form this file simply contain "as much of the MSS. [manuscript] as was ready at the time". It further notes that the contents have not been checked.
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- 1 volume (341 folios)
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Foliation: This volume's foliation system is circled in pencil, in the top right corner of the recto The front of a sheet of paper or leaf, often abbreviated to 'r'. of each folio.
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- front, back, spine, edge, head, tail, front-i, i-r:ii-v, 975:1092, 1092a:1092f, 1093:1110, 1110a:1110f, 1111:1328, 1328a:1328f, 1329:1386, 1386a:1386f, 1387:1446, 1446a:1446f, 1447:1448, 1448a:1448f, 1449:1542, 1542a:1542f, 1543:1600, iii-r:vi-v, back-i
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