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they have long vanished from North Arabia. The area surrounding
al-‘Ula is now occupied by the tribes of ‘Anazah and Baliyy, with
the exception of al-‘Ula itself. The Baliyy, in fact, have, resided in
this region since early Islamic times.

Notes

1. See for example, Ezek. 27:20, 38:13; Isa. 21:13.
2. Al-Afghani, Sa‘id, Aswaq al-'Arab, Damascus, 1960, 194, and
al-Hamdanl, Sifat Jazirat al-'Arab, Geographie der arabischen Halbinsel,
ed. D.H. Miiller, Leiden, 1884, 180.
3. Al-MaqdisI, Ahsan at-taqasim, Bibliotheca Geographorum Arabi-
corum, Leiden, 1906, III, 97.
4. ‘Preliminary Survey of N.W. Arabia, 1968’, Bulletin of Institute of
Archeology, VIII, IX, London 1970, 199-204.
5. Ibn Manzur, Lisan al-'Arab I, Cairo, 1300 A.H. art. '.Kh-r-b\ 337.
6. W.F. Albright, ‘Dedan*, in Geschichte und Altes Testament. Fest­
schrift fur Albrecht Alt, Tubingen, 1953, 1.
7. C.M. Doughty, Travels in Arabia Deserta, London 1924, 145.
8. A. Musil, The Northern Hegaz, New York, 1926, 295.
9. A.J. Jaussen and R. Savignac, Mission Archeologique en Arabie, I,
Paris 1909, XI, Text and Atlas, Paris 1914.
10. See Preliminary Survey, 204.
11. F.V. Winnett and W.L. Reed, Ancient Records from North Arabia,
Univ. of Toronto, 1970.
12. P.J. Parr, G.L. Harding and J.E. Dayton, Preliminary Survey.
13. A. Ansarl, ‘A Critical and Comparative Study of Lihyanite
Personal Names, Unpubl. Ph.D. thesis, Leeds University, 1966, 21.
14. Winnett and Reed, op. cit., 176-8.
15. Preliminary Survey, 213.
16. Winnett and Reed, op. cit., 117.
17. Musil, 295.
18. Yaqut, Mu'jam al-Bulddn, Leipzig, 1868, III, 709; see also Musil,
218.
19. Musil, 295.
20. Ibid., 218, n.53.
21. Ibn Khurradadhbih, Al-Masalik wa-'l-Mamalik, Bibliotheca
Geographorum Arabicorum, Leiden, 1889, VI, 149-50.
22. Qudamah b. Ja‘far, al-Kharaj, B.G.A., VI, 190-1.
23. Ibn Rustah, Al-A 'Idq an-nafisah, B.G.A., 1891, VII, 183.
24. Al-IdrlsI, Opus Geographicum, ed. E. Cerulli et al., IV, Rome,
1971, 376, and see A. al-Wohaibi, The Northern Hijaz in the writings of
the Arab Geographers, Beirut, 1973,298.
25. Al-HarbI, Kitab al-Manasik, ed. H. al-Jasir, Riyadh, 1969, 650,
653.