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'Gazetteer of Arabia Vol. I' [886] (947/1050)
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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Tribe.
Yasar
Zagarlt ..
Zaiyad (Al)
Zaraij (Bani)
Zoba • •
Zubaid «•
Location.
On the right bank of the
Husainiyah canal at
Qurtah and westwards
of Karbala Town in the
direction of Razazah,
but chiefly at Mahanna-
wiyah between Tawairlj
and Hillah, in the ne'gh-
bourhood of Hillah,
and on the Harqa reach
(left bank) of the Shatt-
al-Hindiyah.
In the Karbala Sanjaq ..
In the Qadhas of Diwanl-
yah, Samawah and
ShamTyah.
R emarks.
This is a scattered tribe: they are
generally at feud with the Mas'ad
and usually have the better of them.
The Yasar are estimated at 8,033
souls. They are exempt from cons
cription for the Turkish military
service.
Sunnis. Divided into several sections.
The Al Zaiyad are supposed to
number about 11,000 persons of
whom 9,000 are in the Qadha of
Shamtyah: in religion they are
Shl'ahs; they cultivate rice,
keep cattle, own about 1,500 horses,
and live in tents and huts. Among
their sections are the Adaim, Asaidah,
Bahlah, Darawishah and Hassan.
In the Qadha of Samawah A large
many
In the Qadha of Khadhi-
main.
Baghdad City, Bghailah,
the Dagharah district
and Musaiyib are ap
proximately the 4 points
within which the Zubaid
range, between the
Tigris and Euphrates
rivers. One sub-section
is represented in the
Najaf Qadha and two
are found in the Qadha
of Samawah.
Shi'ah tribe of
sections, all settled and
engaged in cultivation and cattle-
breeding.
This tribe sometimes have an en
campment on the left bank of the
Euphrates at Khan Maqdam. The
Sha'ar and Shiti above are subject to
the Shaikh of the Z5ba\ The num
ber of the Zoba' and their subor
dinate tribes is large. Some of
the Zoba' are Sunnis.
See article Zubaid.
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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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