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'Gazetteer of Arabia Vol. I' [‎96] (111/1050)

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The record is made up of 1 volume (523 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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96
ADEN
4 ushur' to Mohomed Bin Ali at Thuaren, a chief of the Ahl el Saidi, whose
grandfather was formerly Akil on condition of receiving ' ushur ' from the Ahl
Diyan, which was levied on land which they tilled, belonging to the Ahl el Saidi.
The Akilship passed from that family, but the./ ashuwar ' is still paid. The Ahl
Diyan muster bout 200 men and are an offshoot of the sub-tribe at Khaural,
but may now be considered as component part of the Ahl el Saidi Confederacy.'
(2) Ahl razaU—Living at el Dakhlah. They muster about fifty men.
There are three more actual sub-divisions of the Ahl el Saidi, but they barely muster
between them 100 men and are scattered throughout the neighbouring villages in most
confusing manner.
There is a settlement within their territory called Hafa, which is peopled by Sadah or
Bayeds, whose origin is from Waht (Abdali country), where is the shrine of a well-known
saint, Amr Abu Ali, who, it is stated, formed a friendship with Amr Abu Said (now
enshrined at el Migdah) and was granted by him a small tax on the land round el Dakhlah,
Which these Sadah collect. It is payable in kind as are all these ecclesiastical contribu
tions, and is about 5 per cent, on the year's crop. There is a shrine at Hafa (Fatima
B. Ahmed) and its attendants form the balance of the population.
ALAWI—
A small tribe whose chief village is at Salaik, about 55 miles north of Aden. They
live just south of the Koteibi tribe, with whom they are on friendly terms;
Early in January 1916 they were reported to have submitted with the Koteibi to the
Turks and to be marching against the Fadli Sultan.
AMIRL—
The Amiri occupy the country round and south-east of Dthala, their capital. They
are pastoral and agricultural and can raise about 1,000 fighting men of doubtful value
They claim suzerainty over the Koteibi, but cannot enforce it, nor do the latter admit
the claim.
The Emir is Nasir ibn Shaif ibn eif, who lives at Dthala and is the son of the Emir who
attended the Delhi Durbar A public or private audience held by a high-ranking British colonial representative (e.g. Viceroy, Governor-General, or member of the British royal family). during the Boundary Commission in 1902. He is a man of
36, good-natured, thriftless, easily influenced, and of no marked ability. He has two
brothers, Ali and Seif, the latter of whom is said to possess a considerable amount of
energy and character. The ruling house is unpopular with the tribesmen.
When the Turks appeared in 1915 they took from him some 14 or 15 hostages and
deprived him of his position. Towards the end of the year they summoned him to
Lahej and made a settlement by which they released the hostages, keeping his son in
their stead, and reinstated him with the gift of 50 rifles. It is, doubtless, owing to this
that the Koteibi and Alawi have been coerced into joining them. Sheikh Kasim of
Zubey, who accompanied him to Lahej, received a gift of 10 rifles.
Clans are Azraki, Mihrabi, Ahl Ahmed, Shairi (Sheikh) Sameh Salim.
AKRABI—
A small and peaceably disposed tribe, ranging north of Aden lagoon and west of Bit
Ahmed, the tribal capital. Here is the residence of the local Sultan, the tall mud tower
of which can be plainly seen from Aden harbour. The inhabitants are agricultural and
pastoral and can muster 500 fighting men-
It is now known what their recent attitude has been, but presumably pressure from
their powerful northern neighbours, the Subaihi, and from the Turks has brought them
in temporarily on the side of the latter.
AHL KARAB^—
The Ahl Karab is a nomad tribe ranging the desolate tracts north of Upper Aulaki and
penetrating as far west as Behan el Jibab and the Musabein country. They are a tribe
of marauders and robbers, and though nominally vassals of the Upper Aulaki Sultan,
are always at war with the Ahl Hammam.
Their Chief is Hamid Ibn Nasir Abu Kateyan, who lives at Shabwa, a town of about
3,000 inhabitants, some 55 miles north-east of Nisab, built on the ruins of an ancient
Himyarite city. They muster 400 men.

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Volume I of III of the Gazetteer of Arabia. The Gazetteer is alphabetically-arranged and this volume contains entries A through to J.

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 (523 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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