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'Gazetteer of the Persian Gulf. Vol I. Historical. Part IA & IB. J G Lorimer. 1915' [772] (915/1782)
The record is made up of 2 volumes (1624 pages). It was created in 1915. It was written in English. The original is part of the British Library: India Office The department of the British Government to which the Government of India reported between 1858 and 1947. The successor to the Court of Directors. Records and Private Papers Documents collected in a private capacity. .
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son's right by arms. At a meetinor held at Samaih near Khor-al-
Ghanadhah, however, he was induced, by the advice of the Shaikhs of
Dibai and 'Ajman and of his friend Muhammad, the chief Na'aimi
Shaikh of Baraimi, to abandon forcible measures. About the same
time he proved the strength of his influence in the Baraimi neighbour
hood generally by obliging the Bani Qitab to pay blood money for two
citizens of 'Ibri town in Dhahirah, whom they had slain.
f* 116 ?! After the attack on Abu Dhabi town in 1856 the internal history of
1907 tlie Principality was, apart from the affairs of 'Odaid and Baraimi
described above^ wholly uneventful. The wars of the Bani Yas
with the Al Thani Shaikhs of Dohah will be more appropriately related,
though the interior of the Abu Dhabi Shaikhdom did not entirely
escape their effects, in the history of the Qatar promontory. Shaikh
Zaid performed the Hajj in 1880-81, and in 1904 he received a fine mare
with trappings from the Sharif of Makkah.
ANNEXURE No. 8.—INTERNAL HISTORY OF THE DIBAI
PRINCIPALITY.
Of the early history of Dibai town little is known. It existed
already in 1799 ; and in 1825, as appears from the general historv of
Trucial 'Oman,* its possession was an object of ambition to the ruler of
Masqat. _ Notwithstanding the separate signature on behalf of its chief
Hazza-bin-Za al, then a minor, of the General Treaty of Peace in
1820, Dibai appears to have existed until 1833 as a dependency of the
Abu Dhabi Shaikhdom ; but in that year, as related elsewhere,t on the
arrival of a body of 800 seeeders from Abu Dhabi belonging to the Al
Bii lalasah section of the Bani Yas tribe, it attained indisputably to the
status of a separate principality.
Acce«sion
Shaikh
Maktum to
sole power,
1836.
•Admiuistra
tion and
character.
Shaikh Maktum-bin-Buti, 1833-52.
of The leaders of the exodus of the Al Bu Falasah from Abu Dhabi
\\eie Obaid-bin-Sa'id and Maktum-bin-Buti, who seem, according to a
piactrce common among the Bani Yas, to have been recognised as joint
chiefs; but on the death on the 9th of June 1836 of 'Obaid, who was
regarded as the senior of the two, the undivided power devolved upon
Maktum, at that time a haughty and inexperienced youth.
The new principality was exposed for a time to considerable danger,
both from the jealousy of the Shaikh of Abu Dhabi, the former
suzerain of Dibai, and from the ambition of the Qasimi Shaikh of
laijah, between whom a combination was more than once formed for
its suppression ; but the personal courage and the ability of Shaikh
* Vide page 686 ante.
t Vide page 765 ante.
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Theses two volumes make up Volume I, Part IA and Part IB (Historical) (pages i-778 and 779-1624) of the Gazetteer of the Persian Gulf The historical term used to describe the body of water between the Arabian Peninsula and Iran. , ’Omān and Central Arabia (Government of India: 1915), compiled by John Gordon Lorimer and completed for press by Captain L Birdwood.
Part 1A contains an 'Introduction' (pages i-iii) written by Birdwood in Simla, dated 10 October 1914. There is also a 'Table of Chapters, Annexures, Appendices and Genealogical Tables' (page v-viii) and 'Detailed Table of Contents' (pages ix-cxxx), both of which cover all volumes and parts of the Gazetteer .
Parts IA and IB consist of nine chapters:
- 'Chapter I. General History of the Persian Gulf The historical term used to describe the body of water between the Arabian Peninsula and Iran. Region' (Part IA, pages 1-396);
- 'Chapter II. History of the ’Omān Sultanate' (Part IA, pages 397-629);
- 'Chapter III. History of Trucial ’Omān' (Part IA, page 630-Part IB, page 786);
- 'Chapter IV. History of Qatar' (Part IB, pages 787-835);
- 'Chapter V. History of Bahrain' (Part IB, pages 836-946);
- 'Chapter VI. History of Hasa' (Part IB, pages 947-999);
- 'Chapter VII. History of Kuwait' (Part 1B, pages 1000-1050);
- 'Chapter VIII. History of Najd or Central Arabia' (Part 1B, pages 1051-1178);
- 'Chapter IX. History of Turkish ’Iraq' (Part 1B, pages 1179-1624).
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- 2 volumes (1624 pages)
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Volume I, Part I has been divided into two bound volumes (1A and 1B) for ease of binding. Part 1A contains an 'Introduction', 'Table of Chapters, Annexures, Appendices and Genealogical Trees' and 'Detailed Table of Contents'. The content is arranged into nine chapters, with accompanying annexures, that relate to specific geographic regions in the Persian Gulf The historical term used to describe the body of water between the Arabian Peninsula and Iran. . The chapters are sub-divided into numbered periods according, for example, to the reign of a ruler or regime of a Viceroy, or are arbitrarily based on outstanding land-marks in the history of the region. Each period has been sub-divided into subject headings, each of which has been lettered. The annexures focus on a specific place or historical event. Further subject headings also appear in the right and left margins of the page. Footnotes appear occasionally at the bottom of the page to provide further details and references.
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Foliation: The foliation sequence is circled in pencil, in the top right corner of the recto The front of a sheet of paper or leaf, often abbreviated to 'r'. of each folio. The sequence runs through parts IA and IB as follows:
- Volume I, Part IA: The sequence begins on the first folio with text, on number 1, and ends on the last folio with text, on number 456. Total number of folios: 456. Total number of folios including covers and flysheets: 460.
- Volume I, Part IB: The sequence begins on the first folio with text, on number 457, and ends on the last folio with text, on number 878. It should be noted that folio 488 is followed by folio 488A. Total number of folios: 423. Total number of folios including covers and flysheets: 427.
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- front, back, spine, edge, head, tail, front-i, i-r:iii-v, 1:130, 1:778, iv-r:iv-v, back-i, front-a, back-a, spine-a, edge-a, head-a, tail-a, front-a-i, v-r:v-v, 779:1098, 1131:1146, 1099:1130, 1147:1484, 1489:1496, 1485:1488, 1497:1624, vi-r:vi-v, back-a-i
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