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The Arabian poets make frequent allusions to Shab Aamer; thus Ibn el Faredh says: "Is Shab Aamer, since we left it, still inhabited? Opposite to this building, a paved causeway leads towards the western hills, through which is an opening that seems artificial.
Classic Name Esdraelon. Tribe Issachar. Country Canaan. Scriptural Reference Judges, vi. 33. No. of Map. ix. Modern Name Merdj Ibn Aamer. Distance and bearing from Jerusalem 40 N.b.E. Lat. North 32.27. Long. East 35.25. Quarter Asia. Country Palestine. Province Akka.
Of these dates a considerable part is brought to Medina from distant quarters, and especially from Fera, a fertile valley in the possession of the Beni Aamer tribe, where there are numerous date-groves: it is three or four days' journey from Medina, and as many from Rabegh in the mountains.
As numbers of the public women reside at Shab Aamer, this quarter is not ranked among the most respectable in Mekka. Sherif Ghaleb imposed a regular tax upon those females, and required an additional payment from such of them as, in the time of the pilgrim-age, followed the hadjys to Arafat. A similar tax is levied at Cairo, and in all the great provincial towns of Egypt.
I have seen many who had come by that route; they appeared to be men of a much better and more vigorous character than the gene-rality of Indians. Opposite to this quarter El Soleymanye, on the eastern mountain, and adjoining the Ghazze and Shab Aly, is a half-ruined district, called Shab Aamer, inhabited by Bedouin pedlars of the Thekyf and Koreysh tribes, and by a few poor sherif families.
THE different mountains forming the southern chain of the valley of Mekka are: Djebel Fadeh, on the lower part of Djebel Kobeys, nearest to the town El Khandame, likewise part of Djebel Kobeys Djebel el Abyadh, called among the Pagan Arabs Mestebzera, belonging also to Djebel Kobeys Mozazem Korn Meskale, lower ridge of Shab Aamer Djebel Benhan, ibid.
The Bedouins of this coast are active fishermen, and bring hither from the more distant ports their salted fish; a quantity of which may always be found in the market, where it is bought up by the Arab ships' crews, who consume a great part of it, and carry the rest to Egypt or Djidda. The inhabitants of Rabegh are of the above-mentioned Harb tribes of Aamer and Zebeyd, principally the latter.
From such pollution, however, the encampments of the Arabian Bedouins are exempt; although their ancestors were not, in this respect, immaculate, if we may credit some scandalous anecdotes recorded by Eastern historians. I have already observed that the quarter called Shab Aamer was the residence of the poorer class; those of the higher order are dispersed over the town.
Djebel Yakyan, on the side of Shab Aamer Djebel el Aaredj, near the latter Djebel el Motabekh, or Shab Aamer; so called because the Toba kings of Yemen, when they invaded Mekka, established here their kitchen Shab Abou Dobb Shab e' Szafa, or Djebel Raha, Shab Beni Kenane Shab el Khor Shab Athmen.
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