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Name.
Towards which side
of
Wadi A seasonal or intermittent watercourse, or the valley in which it flows. Ma'awal.
Houses
and
inhabitants.
Remarks.
Wasit ..
East
70 houses of Bani
Filait.
Wadi A seasonal or intermittent watercourse, or the valley in which it flows. Ghariz joins the
main valley here.
Wasit forms a small
but rich oasis of date
c ultivation and is
about 10 miles from
Barkah. There are
20 camels, 70 don
keys-, 30 cattle and
200 sheep a,iid goats.
The valley also contains a plain called Na'aman between Hibra, Afi, Muslimat and
Tuwaiyah, and receives the drainage of Tuwaiyah. The trade of Wadi A seasonal or intermittent watercourse, or the valley in which it flows. Ma awal is with
Barkah. Wheat, barley, lucerne and beans are grown, and the date palms are estimated
at 100,000.
MABABISAH—-
A section of the Al Wahibah tribe [q. v.), of the Sharcfyah and Ja'alam districts of the
'Oman Sultanate.
MABAK—
A small oasis in the Jafurah desert (y. v.) of eastern Arabia.
MA 'BAR— . j ,
A small village in Yemen, on the road between Sana'a and Qa'tabah and situated abovit
19 miles to the north of Dhamar. Ma'bar stands at an elevation of about 7 500 feet
and consists of a collection of poor habitations built of sun -dried bricks with a little
masonry here and there. The water supply is good. These plateau villages, of the
type of Ma'bar, are mostly mean and dirty in this locality. There was formerly a sms
Turkish garrison quartered here.
MA'BAR— .
The site of some ruins in Hadrammaut, southern Arabia, situated in Wadi A seasonal or intermittent watercourse, or the valley in which it flows. Shirwan
some 6 miles inland from Qusai'ir. The ruins consist of a large fort, rounded on one
side and about 40 feet in diameter, the whole being built of round water -worn stones s^
in very strong cement. There is a running stream close by, the water of which is g o
and sweet. Tobacco and other things are grown, and round about are camel thorn trees.
Ma'bar lies under a big, pointed rock amongst hills.—(.Be^, ISdi.)
MABI'—
A bazaar in Hail {q. v.), Jabal Shammar.
MABIN SANAISAR—-
A creek in the Fao {q. v.) district,
MABlT (M ahaix-al)— a1 „ r .. , ai
The name of three helting places, in Hejaz on the rente between Al-Wej, and A -
Madinah. They are situated 230, 281 • 5 and 390 kilometres respectively from Al-Waj].
—{Egyptian W. 0. map of Pilgrims' Route*.)
M^BiyAH (Jabal)—
A hill to the eastward of Wadi A seasonal or intermittent watercourse, or the valley in which it flows. Sirhan (?. v.) y in north-western Arabia.