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'Gazetteer of Arabia Vol. I' [709] (764/1050)
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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HAJ-HAJ 709
The total fighting strength of the Bani Hajir is thus about 1,500 men, of whom 650
belong to the Makhadhdhabah and 850 are of the Al Muhammad section ; and the number
of the^ whole tribe probably amounts to some 5,000 souls.
x P ° lit ? cal condition. The two great divisions of the Bani Hajir, namely, the Mukhadh-
dhabah and the Al Muhammad, are ordinarily at enmity with one another, and this is
the case at the present time ; there is consequently no paramount Shaikh of the whole
tribe. It is understood that the leading men of the Bani Hajir, receiving as they do allow-
ances from the Turkish Mutasarrif of Hasa and presents from the Shaikh of Kuwait
and the Al Tham Shaiks of Qatar, are inclined to regard themselves as independent of all
authority ; but the payment by them of Zakat to the Wahhabi Amir is regarded as a not
impossible contingency of the future. About 1865 the value of their annual contribu-
tion to the Riyadh treasury was estimated at $3,000.—(Gazetteer of the
Persian Gulf
The historical term used to describe the body of water between the Arabian Peninsula and Iran.
:
Leachman, 1912.)
HAJIS (T bibe)—
See Dawasir (Tribe); Farjan sub-division of the Al Has-an.
HAJIYAH (A l)—
Also known as Garat-al-Hajaj; a hill in Washam, lying between Shaqrah and Thar-
imdah, on the western route from 'Anazah to Riyadh. Upon it are some ruins of stone
building and cloumns.—<£0^%.) 0
HAJJAJ (Tbibe)—
See Lam (Bani), Sarkhah division,
HAJJI (R ak-al)—
. ^' arge f® ef
Persian Gulf
The historical term used to describe the body of water between the Arabian Peninsula and Iran.
, lying off the coast of Trucial 'Oman. It is situated
^ ? it ^ ' e 'slet known as Halat-al-Mubarraz which is about 53 sea miles
rhnlTo , [ JU :Dhabl - ^ hls r ee f has not yet (1915) been surveyed, but it is probably
about 9 miles long east and west, and 7 miles broad. There are one or two sandbanks
reef irXnt U M Bashabar the channel between Rak-al-Hajji and the Bazam
!i miles wide from 4 to 8 fathoms of water. The tidal streams setting
east and west through it are strong at springs. •>
Khor Halj is the name given to the clear channel between Bu Tini and Rak-al-Haiji
and between the former and Radaim, the northern portion of the Bazam reef. It a^
pers to have a minimum width of about 5 miles with a depth of from 5 to 8 fathoms.
HAJJUR (Jabal)—
TT^rnh 0UP if in northern Hejaz, lying between Harrat Khaibar
Wadi
A seasonal or intermittent watercourse, or the valley in which it flows.
fhetv^ of wlT'S - S/S 10 4 0f ab0Ut 4 ' 5y0 feet and fol1 w »hia
HAJJI 'ABDULAH (1)
HAJJI 'ABDULLAH (2)
HAJJI RASHlD I Creeks and hamlets in Fao (j.v.).
HAJJI SULAIMAN
HAJJI SULTAN
hajnawi—
See Qasim.
HAJRAH—
See Shamin (Jau).
HAJRAH—
A hamlet in Yemen ; it is situated on a commanding knoll some 600 yards to the north
of the pass of the same name through which the Hodeida-Sana'a road leads. The
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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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