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'Gazetteer of Arabia Vol. II' [‎1258] (307/688)

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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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1258
muh—muh
Between Ras Muhammad and these harbours there is no anchorage on the coast;
the mountains are close to the sea and present a grand range, from 3,000 to 5,000 feet
high, extending both north-eastward and north-westward.
MUHAMMAD 'ABD-UD-DAIM—
A creek in the Fao {q. v.) district.
MUHAMMAD-AL-HABI—
See Hamar Lake, river Euphrates.
MUHAMMAD-BIN-'ALI (H AEAT)—
One of the wards, or quarters, of Baraimi village (q. v.), in independent 'Oman.
MUHAMMAD-BIN-HAMAD (AL)—
A section of the Al Kathir tribe (q. v.) of Dhufar, southern Arabia.
MUHAMMAD-BIN-SALIM ('Ain)—
A fine spring of fresh water in Muharraq Island (q, v.), Bahrain.
MUHAMMAD GUDAYAN—
A creek in the Fao (q. v.) district.
MUHAMMAD MUHIBB 'ALI—
A creek, with a household or two on it, in the Fao {q. v.) district.
MUHAMMAD SALIH—
A creek in the Fao (q. v.) district.
MUHAMMAD SULAIMAN—
A creek in the Fao {q. v.) district.
MUHAMMADI—
A stretch of cultivated groiind in Kharj (q. v.), in southern Najd.
MUHANNA ('A IN B IN)—
A Bedouin camping ground in the interior of Qatar {q. v.), eastern Arabia.
MUHARIB—
One of the tribes forming the general body known as the Bani Khadh r ( q v ) of south
ern Najd. *
MUHARRAM (H AL)—
•OmanSanate! A ' Wah!bah trib6 ^ V ^ ) • Shar W ah and districts of the
MUHARRAQ ISLAND—♦
After Bahrain Island this is the most important island of the Bahrain group u lies
north-east of Bahrain Island and is separated from it only bv a strait H ,
of which the greater part is extremely shallow. Its ^ ^ br0ad '
north-west to south-south-east, is about 4 miles • butthVar^a nf f j !™ 0 -T' rom nort h
relatively very small,-in fact only 5} Pr0per i3
much indented form, somewhat resembling a horse shoe wi+h fu 011 " 0 -j 8 irr0 § u ^ ar anc ^
Muharraq consists of a low strip of sand, bu^WrronS K K 0 P en /^e to the south,
which almost triple its superficies at low tide • and a rockv en f" 7 ^ eCfS of ( : 0raI
which runs out nearly four miles toseawardfrom the now^ ' Ras-al-Khasaifah,
constitutes the chief danger to vessels entering Manamah harbour™ ThT 6 ^ iSland '
or Kaukabs speoifled in the first table below L oneTth^malhlXCr,
•Po, authorities, . tort8 , e fe ,

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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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