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'Gazetteer of Arabia Vol. I' [851] (906/1050)
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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HUSAIN (M ashhad)—
An alternative name for Karbala (g.r.).
HUSAIN (Bani)—
An Arab tribe of Hejaz ; anciently they were much more numerous and such was their
power that for centuries they retained charge of the Prophet's tomb. The Bani Husain
of Al-Madinah have their headquarters at Suwairkiyah ; the former place contains six:
or seven families, the latter ninety-three or ninety-four. They subsist principally
on their landed property, for which they have title-deeds extending back to Muhammad's
day, and also upon religious bequests. At Al-Madinah they live chiefly at the Hosh Ibn
Sa'ad, a settlement outside the town and south of the Darb-al-Janazah. There is,
however, no objection to their dewelling within the walls, and they are taken to the
Harim after death if there be no evil report against the individal. Their burial place is
the Bakia cemetery.
The Bani Husain are spare dark men of Bedawi appearance and they dress in the old
Arab style still affected by the Sharifs; in public they always carry swords even when
others leave weapons at home. The town of Suwairkiyah belongs to the Bani Husain,
They are said to claim the allegiance of the Bedouin tribes around, principally the
Mutair, and their fealty to the Sharif of Mecca is merely nominal. — {Burton, 1853.)
HUSAIN (Qal'^t-al).
See Dhahran (Barr-adh).
HUSAIN (S h A khat zair)—
See 'Abbadan.
HUSAIN (Wilad) (Tribe)—
See Ruwahah (Bani).
HUSAIN AHSHAMARI—
See Fao.
HUSAIN 'ALI (Al B^) (Tribe)-—
See Hillah (Qadha).
HUSAIN ^LI (Al Bu) (Tribe)—
See Sultan (Al Bu).
HUSAINI—-
A locality on the right bank of the Tigris {q. v.) between Bghailah and Kut-al-
Amarah.
HUSAINI—
The north-western ward, or quarter, of the town of Jauf-al-'Umr in the Jabal
Shammar dominions.
HUSAINI (A l)—
A sister tribe of the Fuqarah of whom is said to be the family of Ibn Sa'ud ; in Doughty'a
time they lived near Aleppo. Doughty was informed that the Husaini are a sub-section
of the Bishr, and that there is also a sub-section of the Ruwalla of the same name.
HUSAINlYAH—
See Samawah (Qadha).
HUSAINIYAH (H or-al)—
Or Hor-as-Sulaimaniyah ; see the village of the latter name in the article on the Shatt-
al-Hindiyah.
HUSAINIYAH (N ahr-al)—
A large canal in 'Iraq; it takes off from the right bank of the Euphrates at
Musaiyib and runs to Karbala Town where it divides into two branches. 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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- 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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