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'Gazetteer of Arabia Vol. I' [‎283] (298/1050)

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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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283
They are said to number 15,000 men, and their paramount Shaikh is Mu 'addi Ibn
Khair. The whole tribe is strongly in favour of the Idrisi, and pay him taxes. They
are equally strong in their feelings against the Turks, who in spite of their proximity
have not ventured to interfere with them for years. Their chief enemies are the Ban i
Shihir, but they dislike end despise the Bani Zaid. With the Dhuwwi Barakat, the
Ghamid, and Zahran, they are friends. The Zubaid go in for gun-running to a certain
extent, buying their rifles from Ruwais, near Jiddah north from Birk, and selling
them chiefly to the Zahran.
Paramount Shaikh ; Mua'ddi Ibn Khair. 15,000 men.
• • Hasan Ibn Muhammad.
'Ali Ibn Halim.
.. Mubarak Ibn Bakhlt.
,. Mihi Ibn Muhammad. '
.. Yahya Ibn Salim.
.. Ahmad-al-Hayyani.
.. Hanaish Ibn Qarawish.
. • Musaibikh Ibn Mufarrih.
.. Hadi Ibn-ar-Rabh.
.. Mizhir Ibn Sihman.
Ahmad-al-Humrani.
A1 Khair
Bani Zibda
Al-as-Sa'ida
Al Imlahi
Bani Atma
Al Sulaba
Al Difra
Al Mashaf
Al Jamil
Jadraimah
Al- 'Ajalain
'ASIRAH—
A section of the Habus tribe {q. v. ).
'ASIRAH—
A section of the Hirth tribe {q. v.),
ASIRIYIN—
A family of Ma'adhld admitting relationship with the Al Bin 'Ali; see Ma'adhid and
also Al Bin 'Ali.
ASIS ( Badd-al)—
A tract in the Sanjaq of Hasa, immediately to the north-west of the Hasa Oasis; it
is about 30 miles in length, stretching from Jabal-ad-Dam on the north to the border
of the Ghuwar tract on the south, and its average breadth between Jau-as-Sa'adan on
the west and Jauf on the east is about 18 miles. Its boundaries are further defined by
the Gharaimil hill on its east side, by the Qarat-ar-Rukban hill at its south-east corner
where it meets the, oasis of Hasa, by the ;Ghar-ash-Sliuyakh hill at its south-western
extremity, and by the Baraim hill on its western border towards the north end. Badd-
al-Asis is described as a plain of sand interspersed with undulating rocky ground; the
sand is reddish and the rocks are dark-brown in colour. Grazing consists of Thamam
grass and of 'Arfaj and Rimth bushes, of which the last is particularly favoured by
camels. The only well in Badd-al-Asis is Shatqam, about 5 miles north-west of Qarat-
ar-Rukban, which is 2 fathoms deep, and contains good water. It should be noted that
according to some authorities the district described is mostly a part of Ghuwar, and that
Badd-al-Asis is"merely the name of a track leading across Ghuwar in the direction of
Taff and Wadi A seasonal or intermittent watercourse, or the valley in which it flows. -al-Miyah.
ASITAH—
A small spring in the Wadi A seasonal or intermittent watercourse, or the valley in which it flows. -al-Bardan {q. v.), in the Shamiyah tract of north-eastern
Ara bia. — {Leachman).
ASKAIY a N (I bn)—
1
A section of the Bani 'Abdullah division of the Bani Mutair (q. v.).
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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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