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IOR/L/PS/20/C131
- Record Id:
- 040-000564567
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 036-000564257
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000000884.0x000164
- LARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100023622552.0x000002
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- IOR/L/PS/20/C131
- Title:
- Personalities, Arabia
- Scope & Content:
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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.
- Collection Area:
- India Office Records and Private Papers
- Project / Collection:
- India Office Records
Qatar Foundation Partnership Programme - Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-000538283
036-000564257
037-000564506
040-000564567 - Is part of:
- IOR/L/PS : Political and Secret Department Records
IOR/L/PS/20 : Political and Secret Department Library
IOR/L/PS/20/C : Political and Secret Department Library: 'C' Books
IOR/L/PS/20/C131 : Personalities, Arabia - Hierarchy:
- 032-000538283[0020]/036-000564257[0003]/037-000564506[0044]/040-000564567
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: IOR/L/PS
- Record Type (Level):
- File
- Extent:
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1 volume (185 folios)
- Digitised Content:
- https://www.qdl.qa/en/archive/81055/vdc_100000000884.0x000164
- Thumbnail:
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- Languages:
- English
- Scripts:
- Latin
- Start Date:
- 1917
- End Date:
- 1917
- Date Range:
- 1917
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
-
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- User Conditions:
- Physical Characteristics:
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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).
- Former External References:
- C131
- Arrangement:
- There is a list of contents on folio 3v. There is an index to the volume on folios 170-183.
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Public Record(s)