'Handbook of Asir'
- Holding institution:
- British Library. India Office Records and Private Papers
- Data provider:
- Qatar National Library
- Title:
- 'Handbook of Asir'
- Creator:
- Author: Cairo Intelligence Department, Arab Bureau
- Date:
- 1916/1916
- Description:
- Abstract: The volume, marked 'For Official Use Only', is a first edition Handbook of Asir, prepared by Captain K Cornwallis of the Arab Bureau, Cairo, and printed by the Government Press, Cairo, 1 June 1916.The volume opens with a prefatory note on compilation and sources and is then divided into seventeen chapters (I-XVII), as follows:I - AreaII - ReliefIII - Physical Character and ClimateIV - PopulationV - Domestic Apparatus and ManufacturesVI - AgricultureVII - Live-stockVIII - TradeIX - CurrencyX - Weights and MeasuresXI - TaxesXII - Recent History and Present PoliticsXIII - Military Organization and ResourcesXIV - Tribal NotesXV - PersonalitiesXVI - Roads and CommunicationsXVII - Route ReportsThe majority of the volume focuses on tribes, personalities, and route reports.Physical description: Foliation: the foliation sequence (used for referencing) commences at the front cover with 1, and terminates at the inside back cover with 95; these numbers are written in pencil, are circled, and are located in the top right corner of the recto side of each folio.Pagination: the file also contains an original printed pagination sequence.
- Language:
- English
- Type:
- Archival file
- Type (Narrower):
- Other Texts
- Type (Broader):
- Text
- Subject:
- Human geography
Physical geography
Tribes - Geographic region:
- Asir
- Publisher:
- Publisher: Government Press
- Rights:
- رخصة حكومة مفتوحة
- Identifier:
- 81055/vdc_100000000831.0x0001d3_ar
81055/vdc_100000000831.0x0001d3_en
IOR/R/15/5/382
IOR/R/15/5/382