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ADEN
was still there in February, and is said to have been promised by the Pasha An Ottoman title used after the names of certain provincial governors, high-ranking officials and military commanders. some 200 acres
of the cultivated land belonging to the Sultan of Lahez doubtless as a bait to other chiefs
who are still wavering.
The Fadli Sultan is in a favourable position, owing to the convergence of several
caravan routes from the rorthern and eastern district, to collect onerous transit dues
and hampur traffic generally. The cadet of his house in Abyan, which owes its
fertility to W. Bana, and other streams between the Fadli and Aden, have
always been independent of him, and bleed the unfortunate traders a second time
before they can pass.
The chief tribe is the Merkushi, who live round J. el Ures and the neighbouring hills.
The attitude of the Sultan in the present war has been Anglophile and lately he is re
ported to have cast into prison his grandson, of Abyan, who had quarrelled with him
and was intriguing with the Haidara Mansur to join the Turks. In 1916 the Turks were
reported to be marching against him with the Koteibi and Alawi whom they had won
over to their cause.
FADLI—
Sultan.
Tribes.
Round J. Ures.
Hussein ibn Hamed of Shukra ..
Merkushi.
Ahl Haidara Mansur
In Abyan.
'ADHADI^ T ribe—
See 'Ataibah (tribe); a fendy of the 'Asumah section of the Barqah division.
'ADHAH—
See Samail ( Wadi A seasonal or intermittent watercourse, or the valley in which it flows. ).
'ADHAIB ( Al B it)—
A section of the Bani Hasan, one of the rural tribes of Ir.iq {q. v.),
A'DHAIDAN (K hashm)—
A spur, or outlier, of Jabal Tuwaiq {q. v.),
ADHIM—
A stream joining the Tigris [q. v.), 65 miles above Kadhimain.
'ADHAM ( Umm-al)—
A Bedouifi camping-ground, with a well, in the interior of Qatar {q. v.).
A'DH AMI YAH—
An alternative name for Mu'adhdham {q. v.) in 'Iraq.
'ADHAMIYAT—
Some low hills in western Najd nearly 80 miles south-east by east of Taima; and south
of the ordinary caravan route between that oasis and ttzil—^Hunter's Map of Arabia),
ADHAN—
A village in the Jiri {q. v.) plain in Trucial 'Oman ; see alscTWadi Ham.
'ADHAR—
A village in Kharj {q, v.) in Southern Najd.