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'Gazetteer of the Persian Gulf. Vol I. Historical. Part IA & IB. J G Lorimer. 1915' [992] (1147/1782)
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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poses ; but, having been driven on shore shortly afterwards by adverse
winds, the boat was recovered by an armed party from Saihat. On the
4th of August Ahmad succeeded in carrying off another boat from
Sanabis on the island of Tarut ; and, after crossing on the same day to
the island of Umm Na'asan in the Bahrain principality, he seized a
Bahrain boat of 28 tons burden, which he took over to Dhahran along
with its crew and cargo. On the 12th of August, he utilised his new
pi ize to capture another Bahrain vessel off Dha^ain in Qatar and
returned to his base of operations, which was now at Dohat Dhalum,
with plunder worth Ks. 5,400, chiefly in pearls. Up to this time Ahmad'
had retained some connection with Qatar, where his family in September
1902 were still living at Sumaismah, and he had disposed there of part of
the proceeds of his Umm Na'asan raid ; but the fruits of his second
piracy were bestowed in Turkish territory, and his family soon followed
him thither. In October 1902, on representations made by the British
authorities to the \\ ali of Basrah, Ahmad seems to have been captured
by the Mutasarrif of Hasa. That official, in response to a request made
direct and not through British intermediary, returned a slave taken in
the second piracy to the owner at Bahrain, and intimated that the rest of
the stolen property was being recovered.
In July of 1J03 news was received that Ahmad, who had meanwhile
been released or allowed to escape, was encamped with four'Amair
companions at 'Anik, and subsequently at Saihat, waiting for an oppor
tunity to recommence his depredations. The fart was brought to the notice
of the Ottoman authorities, who professed in reply that an effort had been
made to arrest him and that he had escaped along the coast in the direc-
Kuwait, but the worthlessness of their assertions was soon demon
strated by Ahmad's reappearance in Hasa, where on the 15th of August he
made an unsuccessful attempt to seize a boat at Dammam. He was then
tried in his absence by the Hasa courts and was said to have been con
demned - par contumace - to fifteen years' imprisonment.
Nothing more was heard of Ahmad until the summer of 1904, when,
ear y m August, he commandeered a boat on the Qatif coast near Safwa;
ew ays later, with 14 companions, he boarded a Qatar vessel
nc ore on the tasht-ad-Dibal and carried off plunder to the
value of Rs. 3,642. This was the only piracy in connection
T rfh ^ \ ^ ^ Specifica % mentioned in 1904; but the
1 on i 1 p COn ^ lnUe(1 Un8afe ' and ' 0n the of 4tL of December
1904, a Persian Bum lying at Qatif was entered by robbers who killed
le crew and carried off property worth §52,000. In this case
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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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- 'Gazetteer of the Persian Gulf. Vol I. Historical. Part IA & IB. J G Lorimer. 1915'
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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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