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Updated: May 14, 2025
The most considerable place in Kasym is Aneyzy, said to be equal in size to Siout in Upper Egypt, which contained, according to the French computation, three thousand houses. Aneyzy has bazars, and is inhabited by respectable Arab merchants.
The road from Derayeh to Baghdad leads through the provinces of Kasym and Djebel Shammar, taking a western direction, because in a direct line no water is found in the Desert. The road continues two days in the cultivated parts of this province as far as the well of
The neighbourhood of Rass produces the most corn; and that part of Kasym about Dat and Rass lies nearest to Medina. In time of peace, regular caravans arrive every month at Medina from Rass. Tousoun Pasha's army found plenty of provisions in the few villages of Kasym which they occupied.
Great numbers of them frequented this territory in spring, and kept off all the other tribes, except the powerful Meteyr, who reside in the Desert between Kasym and Medina. These strengthened their party by an alliance with the Kahtan Arabs, while the Aenezes were assisted by the Beni Shaman.
I believe that the Zeyds are divided into different sects. Those of Yemen and Mekka acknowledge as the founder of their creed El Imam el Hady ill el Hak Yahyn ibn el Hosseyn, who traces his pedigree to Hassan, the son of Aly. He was born at Rass, in the province of Kasym, in A.H. 245, and first rose as a sectary at Sada, in Yemen, in 280.
Caravans going from Medina to Kasym visit the following stations: Medina. Near this is a well, named Byr Rasheyd. 3 hours from thence is El Hafna, with the bed of a torrent. 19 hours. Soweyder. The road from Hafna to this place is rocky, with two ascents, difficult for camels, and wholly without water.
7 hours, to Dat, the first town of Kasym. In all, one hundred hours. From Dat to Rass, one of the chief towns of Kasym, is four or five hours. From Rass to a place called Khabara, five hours; and from Khabara to Shebeybe, four hours. According to the night journies of the Bedouins, one hundred hours are equal to ten or eleven marches by day.
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