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3. I have been assured that in Qunfidhah on the Red Sea coast hajar
al-babr or bajar babrl arc used for coral aggregate, but the term kashur is
also employed.
4. In the Gulf the word danshah is used for windows.
5. This is true of all ground-floor rooms (A, B, D, E, F, G, I, and J)
with the exception of rooms C and H, whose light source was formerly
filtered through corridors D and G respectively.
6. The original impression which the rooms of Bayt al-Mu’ayyad must
have given is still preserved in the house on Tarut at Darin, Manzil Jasim
b. ‘Abd al-Wahhab.
7. The movement of the occupants to the upper storey of a traditional
house in the Bastakiyyah quarter of Dubai is mentioned by Anne Coles
and Peter Jackson, ‘A Windtower House in Dubai’, London AARP, 1975,
13-14.
8. H. R. P. Dickson, Kuwait and her Neighbours, London 1968, 37 and
a note.
9. H. St. J. Philby, The Heart of Arabia, London, 1922, I, 35. (For a
discussion of barabah, see BSOAS, London, 1968, XXXI, III, 491. Eds.)
10. F. S. Vidal, The Oasis of al-Hasa, Dhahran, 1955, 78.
11. H. St. J. Philby, op. cit., I, plan of Riyadh, facing p. 70.