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'Gazetteer of Arabia Vol. I' [‎354] (373/1050)

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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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354
BAHRAIN
Name,
Number
of
houses.
Where located.
R emarks.
Maqla (A1 Bin-)
Manana'ah
100
120
Halat Abu Mahur
Qalali, Muharraq Town
and Hadd.
Belong to the Maliki sect of
Sunn's.
Ditto.
Mu'awadah
20
Muharraq Town .»
Ditto.
Muraikhat
15
Halat Umm-al-Baidh ..
Ditto.
Musallam (Al)
25
Muharraq Town, Hadd
and Halat Abu Mahur.
Ditto.
Na'im
Fluctuat
ing.
Mostly nomad, but 154
settled families are
found at Halat-an-Na'-
im, Umm-ash-Shajar,
Umm - ash- Shajairah,
Halat-as-Sulutah and
Rifa'-al-Gharbi.
Ditto.
Negroes (free)
Negroes (slaves, but
living separately
from their masters.)
860
«
1,160
Manamah, Muharraq
Town, Budaiya', Halat
Abu Mahur and Rifa'-
ash-Sharqi
Budaiya 1 , Muharraq
Town, Halat Abu
Mahur, Manamah and
Rifa'-ash-Sharqi.
There are free negroes in
other places also, but
in the lists of villages
they have been treated
as of the tribe or class
among whom they dwell.
Only about 50 of the
free negroes in Bahrain
formerly belonged to
Shi'ah masters and are
now themselves Shi'-
ahs.
Negro slaves at places
other than those men
tioned have not been
distinguished in the
tables of villages from
the tribe to which their
masters belong. Only
about 20 of the negro
slaves in Bahrain are
owned by Shi'ahs and
are Shi'ahs themselves.
Qumarah .,
10
Muharraq Town
Belong to the Maliki se(!t
of Sunnis.
Rumaih (Al Bu)
115
Jau, Busaitm and
Muharraq Town.
Ditto.
Sadah
150
Hadd
Belong to the Hanafi and
Shafi'i sects of Sunnis.

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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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