'Handbook of Hejaz. Prepared by the Arab Bureau, Cairo.'
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Second edition of the Handbook of Hejaz. The first edition was compiled by Lieutenant Commander David George Hogarth, Director of the Arab Bureau, in June 1916, however the development of events in Hejaz, along with improved knowledge of the area and a large number of errors in the first edition...
Genealogical Table showing the members of the ruling Sherifial Family of Mecca from Mohammed Ibn 'Abd el-Mu'in Ibn 'Aun, Emir 1827-1851 and 1856-1858 through to Husein Ibn 'Ali el-'Aun, who succeeded to the Emirate in 1908, and had assumed the title of King 29 October 1916. The table gives bir...
This volume is A Handbook of Arabia, Volume I, General (Admiralty War Staff, Intelligence Department: May, 1916) and contains geographical and political information of a general character concerning the Arabian Peninsula. The volume was prepared on behalf of the Admiralty and War Office, from so...
This genealogical table of the Āl Rashīd family of Ḥā’il in Jabal Shammar appears in a section titled 'Recent History and Present Politics' of Jebel Shammar [Jabal Shammar] of Chapter 11 in volume one of A Handbook of Arabia (Admiralty War Office, Intelligence Department: May 1916). The table in...
This genealogical table of the Subhān [Subḥān] family appears in a section titled 'Recent History and Present Politics' of Jebel Shammar [Jabal Shammar] of Chapter 11 in volume one of A Handbook of Arabia (Admiralty War Office, Intelligence Department: May 1916). The table includes 26 named and ...