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'Gazetteer of Arabia Vol. I' [690] (745/1050)
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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690
HAF-HAI
HAFlT—
See Jau.
HAFIT (Jabal)—
See Jau.
HAFIYAH (W adi)—
One of the external valleys of Jabal Salmah (q.v.), in northern Arabia.
HAFNAH—
See Shammar (Jabal).
HAFE—
A locality on the left bank of the Tigris (q almost opposite Baghdadlyah.
HAFR—
The name of a locality on the right bank of the Tigris between Kut-al-Amarah
and Shaikh Sa'ad.
HAFR—
A village in Sadair, in Central Arabia ; it is described by Palgrave as being a large vil-
lase situated between Tuwaim and Tamair, with battlemented walls and a square
mediaval-looking castle. Hafr is said to have been at one time as large as Tuwaim,
but when Palgrave passed through in 1862-63 it was declining.
HAFR MA'AD— , . ^
Pasture lands, some distance from Hail, where Ibn Rashid's stud was kept when
Palgrave visited Jabal Shammar in 1862.
HAFTAH (T ribe)— , f - -d n.
See Mutair; Aulad Wasil sub-division of the J5rain.
HAI QADHA—
A division of the Muntafik Sanjaq of the Basrah Wilayat in 'Iraq.
Position and boundaries.—^ Qadha of Hai is situated on both sides of the Shatt-al-
Gharaf, the river which connects the Tigris transversely with the Euphrates m theupper
half of its course. The district is apparently enclosed between the Qadha of Kut-al-
Amarah on the north, that of 'Amarah on the east, that of Shatrat-al-Muntafik on the
south and that of Diwaniyah on the west. , „ . , ^ r n r„+
Topography and inhabitants.—Bastdes the town of Hai and the viUages ofQalat
Sikar and Mhairijah, the two first of which are the subjects of separate articles while the
lasHs noticed in the article on the Shatt-al-Gharaf, there are no placcsof importance
the Qadha The only conspicuous natural feature is the Shatt-al-Gharaf. The dominant
tobes are the Muntafik in the southern and Bani Rabi'ah in the no^em part oUho
district • and the tribe of Bani Hashim are found m the neighbourhood of Qal at Sikar.
Population. —The total fixed population is estimated 44 000 soul \ 0 ^ 0
42 000 are Shi'ah Arabs, while about 1,500 are Sunms, and there Me perhaps 500 Jews,
ne last two classes are found in any number outside the town of Hai.
Besources. —The district is dry and healthy, and the crops and hvestock are sucli
ca i flourish without a superfluity of moisture. The staples of production and tr
wheat, barley, millet, maize, sesame, dates, ghi, wool skins and hides. M1
Administration. —The Qadha of Hai is subdivided into 3 Nahiyahs, namely the Markaz
Nahiyah of Hai, that of Qal'at Sikar, and that of Mhainjah.
HAI (Shatt-al)—
The alternative name for the Shatt-al-Gharaf {q, v.).
HAI (Town ; or Kut-al-Hai)—
A town situated on the left bank of the Shatt-al-Gharaf, about 30 miles from its head
opposite Kut-al-Amarah; it is the chief place in the Qadha of the same name m
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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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