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'Gazetteer of Arabia Vol. I' [750] (805/1050)
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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750
HARB
Tribe.
Sub-Tribe.
Wulud Salim.
Madwakh ibn Salim.
Auf.
8a? din
Above Medina on Derb el-
Hajj.
Kuwwad (half are Beni
Selim).
Clan.
Suioa'id.
Lehaha, 80 men.
Jebel Gharan.
Beni Sifran, 2,000 men,
Jidda.
Haib. In Lebanon.
Kanadira.
The following note on the Hrab, dated 1916, is int-eresting.
Muhsin al Firm owns property at A1 'Awail near Madinah. When he is in the Hijaz
his pasturing grounds are round Abu Mughair, 5 days from Madinah, marked in Hun'
ter's map. He is paramount over the powerful Masruh division of the Harb or at any
rate over a large part of it of which the leading sections are as follows (their present
position as stated):—
Bani 'Ali ,, ., Muhsin al Firm .,
Sa'id al Dhicheri
Maharib ibn Mujid
sa,,* J Saqr ibn Khurais
•' 'Ali al Milhis ..
Munwir ibn Muhammad
'Ibdah ibn Bajjal
Firidah .,
Mukh allaf
Wuhub ..
'Ali ibn Hammad
Huthun ibn Hudaib
Razi ibn Duhsimis
Sa'di
Dha'ar ibn Sa'dah
Al Hasamah.
East of Heja.
At Hanakiyah on Qasim road.
Desert between
and the Qasim.
Hijaz
all
near Ibn Sa 'ud on the
of the Qasim.
ditto.
ditto.
The 'Auf are exceedingly numerous. The Bajjal is one of the most powerful Shaikhs •
Muhanb ibn Mujid is rieh in fighting men and horses but has no camels. AH the others
are camel and sheep breeders.
All the Masruh are at present gom (at feud) with Ibn Rashid on account of Muhsin's
alliance with us. They look on Ibn Sa'ud as an ally. Ibn Rashid is apparently
making it pretty hot for the sections in the Hamad near the borders of his country and
the Qasim. He fell recently upon the Firidah and took chisab (booty) from them.
(We heard of his attackmg some of the Harb.) According to Nadhi, he is driving them
out of their accustomed pastures (" taradna " he said). Letters have passed between
Muhsin and the Shaikhs in the south, in which Muhsin has described the favourable
treatment he is receiving from the English Government and has urged them to come up
??tiT f They u a : e anxi0US t0 do 80 alld wil1 P robabl y move up with the first rains!
It looks as if we might expect a large migration of Masruh towards the frontiers of the
Iraq and the interesting question arises as to whether the Sharif will lay any claim
to their allegiance when here, or to Nikat. Nadhi is profuse in promises as to the sheen
and camels which they would at all times be happy to sell to us.
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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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- front, back, spine, edge, head, tail, front-i, i-r:iv-v, 1:312, 312a:312d, 313:456, 456a:456f, 457:460, 460a:460f, 461:572, 572a:572f, 573:586, 586a:586f, 587:634, 634a:634f, 635:662, 662a:662f, 663:858, 858a:858f, 859:910, 910a:910f, 911:974, v-r:viii-v, back-i
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