'Gazetteer of Arabia Vol. I' [‎171] (186/1050)

ANA—ANA
171
expelled from the township. In case of a military expedition the lists for service were
made up by the Amir, only the better-off classes being required to service ; those who
were called out were obliged to send a camel and back-rider each, the front place on
the animal being filled either by the sender or, if he preferred it, by an efficient substitute^
The poorer classes remained at home for the defence of the town, and on such occasions
it was customary to discontinue the morning market, to prohibit the killing of butchers'
meat, and to close by order all places of business except small general shops. A typical
expedition sent out by the town in 1878 against Bedouins consisted of 400 men with 20
mares and 200 camels.
It is probable that, after the liberation of Qasim from the yoke of Jabal Shammar
in 1902, the old order of things was in most respects re-established under the present
Amir, 'Abdul 'Aziz-bin-'Abdullah-bin-Yahya ; nor does it appears that it has been
seriously modified since the nominal Turkish occupation of Qasim in 1905. The sole sign
of Turkish influence in 1906 was a Nuqtah or military post garrisoned by a detach
ment of less than 100 Turkish oldiers under a Yuzbashi; this detachment occupied a
house belonging to the Amir of 'Anaizah in the Umm Himar quarter, it seemed to have
no police or other duties in the town, and according to the accounts received its pre
sence was virtually ignored by the Arabs. The Amir held the honorary rank of MudTr,
but he drew no salary and maintained no relations with the Turks. He was understood
to profess allegiance to Ibn Sa'ud alone and to pay him occasional tribes.
'ANAJID—
A section of the Shaul tribe {q. v.) of southern Najd.
'ANANAH—
A village in the Khawas Nahiyah of the Hillah Qadha{g. v.). It is situated on the
right bank of the river Euphrates opposite to the ruins of Babylon, and was formerly
the seat of a Mudlr. It is said to be 1| hours from Hillah.
ANA'S TOMB—
A tomb, with a mosque, in the desert west by south from the town of Basrah, at a
distance of about 12 miles (crowfly) west by south from the 'Ashar Bridge aid 7 miles
north-west from the town of Zubair. It is situated at the northern end of a low,
bomerang-shaped ridgo and near the flood-limit of the new bed of the Euphrates.
ANAS (Halat-bin)—
See Bahrain (Island).
ANAT (Al)—
A small settlement in Jabal Druz, in north-western "Arabia, situated about 15 miles
south-south-east from the important village of Salkhad.—(iMiter and Aylmer, January
'ANAZ (Jabal)—
A small hill situated between the eastern border of the ' Awairidh district of Hejaz and
the Hejaz railway. It forms part of a low broken range of hills rising out of an open
sandy plain strewn with volcanic drift, through which the Syrian Hajj route passes.
It lies from 18 to 20 miles north-west by west from Qal'at Dar-al-Hamrah.
'ANAZAH (Tribe)—
Singular 'Anizi; there is also a plural 'Aniiz a great Arab tribe of Northern and
Central Arabia, descended from the Qahtan.*
Distribution, —Their original seat is believed to have been a little to the north of
Madinah on the water-shed between the Red sea and the basin of Wadi A seasonal or intermittent watercourse, or the valley in which it flows. -ar-Rummah,
but the Dlrah of their Bedouins now extends from Q^slm and Madinah on the south to the
• Palgrave. Doughty however (I. 331) treats the 'Amarat as a sub-division of the Bishr and does not
mention the Dahamishah and Hilban worn our Kuwait authority treats as important.
NOTE.—Doughty mentions the following additional fendies
Bdur, Bduz, Bejaija, Belais, Deraan, Dogman, and Farujia. C, C, i?. M*
z2.