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'Gazetteer of the Persian Gulf. Vol I. Historical. Part IA & IB. J G Lorimer. 1915' [1052] (1207/1782)
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 obliged him to transfer the scene of his activities to the neighbour
ing town of Dara'ijah ; but all authorities concur in stating that his
later and more influential years were passed at Dara'ijah. He is said to
have been married twenty times and to have had eighteen children. The
14th of June 17^7 is mentioned as the day of his death.
Wahhabism Wahhabism was at first a purely religious movement; afterwards^
ouso/origi- through force of circumstances, it acquired a s«cular and political
nal aspect. character. In the beginning it was a reformation of Muhammadan
doctrine and practice, inspired by the ideal of a return to the pristine purity
of Islam, and took the form chiefly of a protest against superstition and
luxury in the Muhammadan world. That the Wahhabi belief, if tried
by the standard of the Quran and the best accreditee traditions of Islam,
will be found strictly orthodox seems to be generally admitted; and the
difference between the true Wahhabi and the ordinary Muhammadan
appears to be due to the declension of the litter from the spirit
of his own religion rather than to any eccentrbity on the part of the
former. .
SpoUticnJ The adliesion of llumbers of converts to the reformed faith in Central
or secondary A labia, together with the failure of that laith to find acceptance elsewhere,
aspect, goon invested the movement in Najd with a political, a national, and even
a military importance. Community of belief first paved the way for sub
mission to a common administrative authority; by this authority indivi
duals were compelled to obey the law and warring townships and districts
were welded together into a solid and well-ordered principality ; and, once
internal unity had been established, a militant enthusiasm for the propaga
tion of their religious principles abroad, not unmingled perhaps with a
patriotic desire to cast off the hegemony of the Red Sea districts of Hijaz
and Yaman, awoke in the hearts of the people. For the sharp conflicts
between the Wahhabis and their neighbours which soon began, and
which continued so long as the Wahhabis retained their religious fervour,
neither party can be held solely responsible. The Wahhabis on their
part displayed great intolerance, especially towards the Turks, whose
morals they regarded as lax and non-Muhammadan ; while their opponents,
conscious of the logical soundness of Wahhabi doctrine and exasperated
by the phansaism of Wahhabi virtue, had recourse to calumnies and
misrepresentations. The result was that each side virtually placed the
other outside the pale of Islam, and that the Wahhabis, who were the
more warlike, declared the lives and property of their antagonists to have
been forfeited by religious infidelity and applied themselves to execute the
sen ence. On the one hand it must be admitted that the opposition to
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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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