'Personalities, Arabia'

Holding institution:
British Library. India Office Records and Private Papers
Data provider:
Qatar National Library
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Title:
'Personalities, Arabia'
Date:
1917/1917
Description:
Abstract: The volume is Personalities, Arabia(Admiralty War Staff Intelligence Division, April 1917).The volume is an official report on prominent Arab individuals and Arab tribes in the Arabian Peninsula and other parts of the Middle East. The volume contains personal, historical and genealogical information on ruling families, individual members of ruling families, and other prominent individuals (including commercial firms and merchants) within the regions numbered I-VII below; and ethnographic information on the Bedouin tribes and sedentary tribes (divided into four geographical groupings). The regions and groupings are as follows:I Hejaz (folios 4-13);II Asir (folios 13-23);III Yemen (folios 23-32);IV Aden and Hadhramaut (folios 33-37);V Gulf Coast (folios 37-43);VI Central Arabia (folios 44-50);VII Syrian Desert and Sinai (folios 51-53);The Bedouin Tribes (folios 53-76);Sedentary Tribes of The North-West (folios 77-80);Sedentary Tribes of The West (folios 81-125);Sedentary Tribes of The South (folios 125-165);Sedentary Tribes of The Centre (folios 166-169).The volume includes a 'Tribal Map of Arabia' on folio 184.Physical description: Foliation: the foliation sequence commences at 1 on the front cover and terminates at 186 on the last folio before the back cover. The numbers are written in pencil, are enclosed in a circle, and appear in the top right hand corner of the recto page of each folio. The following folio needs to be folded out to be examined: folio 184. This is the system used to determine the order of pages.Pagination: the volume also contains an original printed pagination, numbered 4-362 (folios 4-183).
Language:
English
Type:
Archival file
Type (Narrower):
Other Texts
Type (Broader):
Text
Subject:
Tribes
Ethnology
Rulers
Geographic region:
Arabian Peninsula
Rights:
رخصة حكومة مفتوحة
Identifier:
81055/vdc_100000000884.0x000164_ar
81055/vdc_100000000884.0x000164_en
IOR/L/PS/20/C131
IOR/L/PS/20/C131
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