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'Gazetteer of the Persian Gulf. Vol I. Historical. Part IA & IB. J G Lorimer. 1915' [1111] (1282/1782)
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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British war-vessels in the previous year; for the place in question was
described as lying within the territory of " Faisal Bey, the Qaim-Maqam
of Najd and as forming "part of the hereditary dominions of the
Sultan. At the close of Faisal's reign, the tribute rendered by him to
the Porte was merely nominal and seems to have been paid through the
Sharif of Makkah.
So long as 'Abdullah, the first Mahfudh, continued to rule Jabal
Shammar, the loyalty of that province to the Wahhabi Amir remained
unquestioned; and Faisal, on his return from Egypt, seems to have been
assisted by his old dependent to recover his position in Najd. Talal,
the son of Abdullah, married a daughter of Faisal and continued, until
his death in 1867, to pay a yearly visit to Riyadh, where he was
accustomed to deliver his tribute of horses in person. About 1848,
however, Qasim, which had hitherto been directly dependent upon the
AVahhabi Amir, aj^pears to have obtained the protection of the Sham mar
chief as a sort of an intermediate overlord.
About 1851, as we have seen, the Amir Faisal maintained an agent
at Kuwait; and it was ascertained that in 1863 his relations with that
place were friendly, although no tribute was paid him by the Shaikh.
When Faisal came to the throne of Najd, a contest between 'Abdul
lah and Muhammad, the two rival Shaikhs of Bahrain, was in progress.
The Amir availed himself of their mutual opposition to assert his own
authority; and, but for the opposition of the British Government, who
had determined to confine Wahhabi influence to the mainland, it is
not improbable that he would have succeeded in reducing the Bahrain
Shaikh to a position of strict dependence on himself.
The Amir at first sided with the younger claimant, Muhammad-bin-
Khalifah, who had lately been driven out by 'Abdullah-bin-A hmad ; and,
when the latter was in his turn displaced, it was principally by a Wahhabi
force that, early in 1844, he was deprived of the fort of Dammam, his
last remaining possession, of which the Wahhabi Amir considered himself
to be the rightful owner.
For some time after this the Wahhabis, having achieved their princi
pal object in the recovery of Dammam, remained quiescent; but in 1845,
on Muhammad-bin-Khalifah becoming intractable and refusing to pav
an annual tribute with arrears to which he had agreed on the fall of
Dammam, 'Abdullah-bin-Sa'id, the Wahhabi governor of Qatif, began
to arrange an attack on Bahrain, and Muhammad, anticipating his
designs, placed the Wahhabi coast under blockade. An invasion of
Bahrain from Hasa by a stratagem was then planned by the ex -Shaikh
Relations
with Jabal
Sham mar,
1843-66,
Relations
with Kuwait,
1843-65.
Relations
with Bahrain,
1843-65.
1843-44.
1845-47,
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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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