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'Gazetteer of Arabia Vol. I' [‎670] (725/1050)

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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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670
HAD—HAD
HADARI (A l B u)—
A section of the Bani Hasan residing in Hor-ad-Dukhn ; see rural tribes of 'Iraq.
HAD ASH—
See Mistal ( Wadi A seasonal or intermittent watercourse, or the valley in which it flows. ).
HADAYAT—
See Qatar; interior of.
HADBAH—
A halting-place in the Hadhramaut on the Mukalla Shibam route. It is a very small
settlement and situated some ten miles inland from and to the north-east of the port of
Mukalla.— {Bent, 1894.)
HADBAH—
In the Hodhramaut, but to be distinguished from the other halting-place of the same
name near Mukalla. The Hadbah now under consideration is situated on the Shibam-
Shihair route, rather nearer to the latter than to the former, and a few miles south-east
from Sufalah.— {Bent, 1893.)
HADD (1)—
A village in the Sultanate of 'Oman, situated at the foot of Khor-al-Hajair, and about
one mile inland in a south-westerly direction from Ras-al-Hadd, the low sandy point
which marks the entrance of the Gulf of 'Oman and is almost the easternmost point in
Arabia. Hadd is 16 miles east by south of Sur and may be reckoned as belonging to the
coast of the Eastern Haj jar District.
The village stands in a sandy plain and consists of over 200 habitations, some of which
are of mud but most of date branches : it boasts a stone fort, three or four round towers,
and some date trees. The water-supply is fairly good but not very abundant. The
inhabitants of Hadd are civil, and belong to the Muwalikh tribe ; they live by fishing and
possess 8 badans and 15 small boats ; about 30 sheep and goats constitute the whole of
their livestock. The cod and other other rock-fish here are of the largest size, sometimes
almost gigantic.
The authority of the Sultan of 'Oman at Hadd is marked by the presence of a detach
ment of 15 'Askaris, commanded by a Jama'dar under the orders of the Wali of Sur;
and for purposes of revenue and taxation Hadd is treated as subordinate to Sur.—((rc^e-
teer of the Persian Ghilf.)
HADD (2)—
A town on the south-eastern point of Muharraq Island in Bahrain. It covers the
narrow promontory for a distance of about J of a mile, and at high tide is only connected
with Muharraq Island by a neck of land 400 yards wide. There are a number of well-
built massonry houses, perhaps 200, and a very much greater number of mud and stone
houses and mat huts, perhaps 700 of each. The water supply is from wells in a date grove
called Zimmah | a mile to the north. The people are Sunnis, chiefly Sadah (150 houses)
and Al Bin-'Ali and Al Bu Falasah (Bani Yas) (200 houses), after each of whom a quarter
is named ; there are also 20 houses of Huwalah, 10 of Al Bu Kuwarah, 10 of Sudan,
10 of Manana'ah and 1 or 2 of Al Musallam, and a fourth division of the town is called
Fariq-al-Musallam. The total population is estimated at 8,000 souls. Shops only
number 5 or 6. Next to Muharraq Town this is the greatest pearl diving place in Bahrain
and to it belong 167 pearl boats ; vessels of all sorts are 3 Batils, 42 Baqarahs, 183
Shu'ais and Sambuks and 21 Mashuwahs and jollyboats. There are 2 horses, 110
donkeys and 35 cattle. No dates are grown, there being no space for plantations, but the
grove at Zimmah belongs to Hadd. The islet and spring of Abu Shahin lie 1 mile south
east of Hadd.— {Gazetteer of the Persian Gulf The historical term used to describe the body of water between the Arabian Peninsula and Iran. .)
HADD {or Musa)—
See Fao.

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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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