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'Gazetteer of Arabia Vol. I' [172] (187/1050)
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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'ANAZAH
JIauran in Syria on the north, while on the east it reaches to the main route between
JSail and Najaf and, further north, to the Euphrates valley. Some of the Bedouin
'Anizah occupy the neighbourhood of Musaiyib in 'Iraq for about two months in
4;he year, and make their annual purchases of .food and clothing there and at Aawairij.
The greater part of the Syrian desert belongs to the 'Anizah, and they come in contact with
•the
Persian Gulf
The historical term used to describe the body of water between the Arabian Peninsula and Iran.
basin chiefly to the west of the Euphrates between Karbala and Najaf
and further south on the borders of Jabal Shammar, where they camp in Hajarah and dis
pute the possession of Batn with the Shammar tribe. The frequent Wadyan and the
Nafud ; in the latter Jubbah is one of their chief centres. The Bedouins around Taimah
are 'Anizah, and numbers of the tribe collect during the date harvest at Khaibar, which
•formerly belonged to them and where they still own plantations. Besides these Bedouins
a very considerable proportion of the sedentary population in the districts of Southern
Najd and in Qasim appear to be of 'Anizah blood.
Divisions and numbers of the Bedouin 'AnizaJi.—Ths internal organisation of the
Ainzah tribe is a subject of great difficulty, and comparison of the various authorities
who have written on the subject yields no clear or consistent result.
According to information collected recently at Kuwait, the more southern 'Anizah
■all into two main divisions, Ihe 'Amarat and the Bishr.
The Amarat are sub-divided into Dahamishah and Hiban, and these again into the
sections and sub-section below:—
Dahdmishah sub-division of the J Amarat.
{ Adalat
'Ayash
Dhuwaidah
Sumair
Suwalim
Tawatihah
Dahdmishah sub-section of the ^ Amardt —contd.
Suwailmat.
Bakr.
Diyadibah
| Muhaisin.
Munahirah.
Mutair.
Rubdhat.
Zibnah.
Bisaisat*
Ghashum.
Hayazah.
Matarifah.
Midhyan.
Hilbdn sub division of the 'Amardt,
Salqah.
Saqur.
i Khamis
j Mahuwwis
> Marwan
J Mirabidah
f Qahus
I Shtaiwi.
Balaliz.
Ohirrah.
Mahainat.
Qamaishat.
Rika'an.
Sahabih.
Salatm.
Shilkhan.
'Awasi.
Kasib.
Dhala'in.
Marzuq.
Mutair.
The sub-division of the Bishr are the Fida'an, Sabaah or Saba'ah, and Wald Sulaiman
and the following table shows their section :—
Fida'dn sub-division of the Bishr,
Hadaib. Mizahlif.
Jidalm. and
MahaicL Shatiwai.
Sabd'dh sub-division of the Bishr.
Misaribah
Faqqat.
Haraimis.
Mirshid.
'Awajlyah.
Faqarah.
Wald Sulaimdn
and
Qa'aishish.
sub-division of
Khumishah.
Yidyan.
the Bashr.
Of the large Bishr division generally it may be stated that, except their Saba'ah sub
division, they adjoin the Shammar tribe on the its south-west frontier and that their
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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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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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