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[-be-]{+Dr. Wallin’s Route in Northern Arabia.
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be+} that of the present Makna,* and I am not aware of any other
place on the coast to which they would he applicable. If it be
suggested, notwithstanding what is stated in ‘ Awdah,’ that the
author of ‘ Al-Kanoon ’ might have intended to place Median on
the Sina peninsula, which wouldabe compatible with “ Tebook
being in the desert opposite to it,” I reply, that the distance of
Tebook from the coast seems to render such an interpretation
improbable. Ahmed al-Dimashky relates, in his work of ‘ Akhbar
al-Duwal,’f that Sultan Suleiman Khan J built the castle in
Tebook, and placed in it a garrison of twenty janisaries to guard
the spring against the Bedooins. Ibn Ay its, in the ‘ Nashk
al-Azhar,’ § states “ Tebook to he a pleasant village, with date-
gardens and corn fields, and with a strong castle.......The
prophet,” continues the author, “ undertook a warlike expedition
against the inhabitants of Tebook, || and vanquished them; and
this was one of the celebrated expeditions in which the prophet
himself was present, and in which he personally assisted in the
slaughter. Various events took place in that war. To Tebook
are assigned the tribes of Lakhm, Gulieine (Juhe’ineh), Gudliam
(Judham), and other Bedooins.” The same tribes are by Ibn
al-Athir, in the ‘ Tuhfat al-’Agaib,’ If stated to dwell in the land
between “Tebook (Tebuk) and Wadi al-Kura (Wadi al-Kura)
and Eile (Eileli).” There is not., so far as I know, at the present
day any Bedooin tribe bearing the name of Lakhm ; but I think
that the present wide spread and much despised tribe of
al-Sherarat arc to be regarded as descendants of Lakhm. Amongst
the numerous clans of the Sherarat in Wadi Sirhan (Wadi Sirhan),
and in the neighbourhood of al Gawf (al Jauf), I met with one
called al-Da’giioon, after the name of the family of its sheikh,
Ibn Da’ge; and that clan is, in ‘ Al-Kal 1<ashendy,’ stated to he a
branch of the Beni Sakhar, of the tribe of Tay, living in the land
between Teima (Te’imah), Kheibar, and Syria. Other Bedooins
* Much uncertainty has prevailed regarding the site of the ancient Madian.
D’Anville (Compend., &c., London, 1810) says: “ The position of Madian (called
by Ptolemy Modiana, 1. iv. c. 5) not far from the sea, is called by tlie Arabs
Megar-el-Shuaib, or the grotto of Shuaib.” I tliink that this should be
Mugheir-al-Sho’aeib, as in Mr. Walker’s last map upon the authority of Dr. Wallin: it will then
rather mean the garden of Sho’aeib. Mr. Forster, in his late interesting work on
the geography of Arabia (vol. ii. p. 11G) merely says, without fixing the site of
Madian, “ that the Modiana of Ptolemy identifies itself with the Madian of
Abu-1-Fedft and the Midian of Scripture, at the mid-coast, on the Arabian side of the
gulf of ’Akaba.” Niebuhr, without examining the question, assumes Muweilah to
be the ancient Madian..(Descrip, de 1’Ar. p. 325.) Makna, so spelt by Dr. Wallin,
is written Makn’a on Captain Moresby’s chart.—A.
f Anglice, Tidings of changes of fortune.—A.
| Suleiman I. ascended the throne in 11320, and died in 156G A. d.—A.
$ Anglict!, Smelling of flowers.—A.
|| Tebook was then subject to the Greek Emperor Heraclius. (See note § p. 28.)
% Anglice, Precious gift of wonders.—A.
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