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'Gazetteer of the Persian Gulf. Vol I. Historical. Part IA & IB. J G Lorimer. 1915' [791] (946/1782)
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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which, with a very few exceptions, he put the crews to death ; in short,
he created a reign of terror in the Gulf. In May 1811 Rahmah
made a piratical cruise of some importance, on which he was accompanied
by a fleet from the town of 'Ajman; but the star of his Wahhabi patrons
was now temporarily declining, and events soon occurred which obliged
him to become more circumspect. < ™ i • *
In 1811, the power of the Wahhabis in Eastern Arabia having been th ^ 7 ®^ b 0 ig
greatly weakened by events upon the western frontier of their empire, f r om Qatar,
Saiyid Sa'id of Masqat attacked them in Qatar by means of a naval expedi
tion, expelled their garrisons from
Zubarah
18th-century town located 105 km from Doha.
and Khor Hassan, and des
troyed the former of those two places by tire. The result appears to have
been the evacuation by the Wahhabis not of Qatar only but also of Bahrain,
where their governor of Hasa, Qatar and Qatif was taken prisoner, and the
restoration of the sovereignty of the Al Khalifah. Kahmah who re
presented the Wahhabi power at sea in this part of the Gulf, Jought a
desperate action with the fleet of the ^Utub and sustained a decided
reverse; and about this time, or soon after, he seems to have trans
ferred his headquarters from Qatar to Dammam on the coast of Hasa.
In 1813 Rahmah, whose respect for the British name was as inalter
able as his hatred for the ^Utub of Bahrain, unwittingly committed a
piracy on a
Baghlah
Large trading vessel.
from Basrah freighted with horses belonging to the
East India Company ; but, on discovering the mistake, he made arrange
ments for forwarding the animals to Bombay, where they all eventually
arrived in safety.
Eemoval of Rahmah-bin-Jabir from Qatar and his proceedings until
the second British expedition against Ras-al -Khaimah, 1816-20.
In 1816, or possibly earlier, Rahmah somewhat suddenly disassociated Migration
himself from the Wahhabi cause and joined the tuler of Masqat. This
change of sides appeal 's to have been due not to inconstancy on h's Part.
but rather to the implacability of his resentment against the Utn b o 181tL
Bahrain, between whom and Saiyid Sa'id, formerly allies, enmity ha
now arisen; and Saiyid Sa 'id appears to have intended, had he been
successful in his attack on Bahrain in 1816, to set Rahmah-bm-Jabir in
the place of the Al Khalifah Shaikhs. The Wahhabis and the
Qawasim
One of the ruling families of the United Arab Emirates; also used to refer to a confederation of seafaring Arabs led by the Qāsimī tribe from Ras al Khaima.
,
as friends of the Al Khalifah, now became the enemies and the victims of
Rahmah; while the Wahhabi Amir, annoyed at Kahmah's desertion
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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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