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writer of the Hasseri "Fars-nameh" mentions the date of
this incident as A.E. 1210 adding that Sheikh Nasser Khan
¥Jent to Bushire from Bahrein with marksmen from Bashtistan^
0?he writer of the "Persian Galf" states that the
Waliahis occupied towards the "beginning of the nineteenth
century Lahsa and Bahrein and a part of Oman and menaced
Mesopotamia and Syria* They occupied Qatif in the year
AoH»1215 (1800 AoBo)•
The writer of the "Maf at ih-ul-Adab" states on page 9
that Saiyid Said, the imam of unseat, went to Bahrein
in the year AoH. 1215 and captured the islands after long
and hard fighting,, Salman "ben Ahmad fled to Qatar and
Ziara and Saiyid Said entrusted the Government of the
islands to his brother<, Salem, and appointed Ifnhammad ben:
Khalifeh as his Yazir leaving 200 Nubian gholams of valour
with them 0 He left the vessel Karlin anchored in the
Vicinity to patrol the islands and returned., Sheikh
Nasser went from Bushire to Bahrein where he entered the
service of Salem. Salman gathered a great number of
followers and suddenly attacked Bahrein in the year A.H.
1216 and took it® Salem and his men went to Muscat and
Sheikh Nasser to Bushire,, ilien the troubles of Rah^ameh
{ and the imam of Ne^d were settled, the two
brothers Salman and Abdullah divided the islands between
themselves but before long there occurred between them
such dissension that they avoided each other for some
years.