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'IRAQ AND THE PERSIAN GULF' [173r] (350/862)
The record is made up of 1 volume (430 folios). It was created in 1944. 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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THE ARAB CALIPHATES 241
of the Shia sect, and their tombs at Najaf and Karbala became the
centres of the Shia faith (p. 328).
Numerous Moslem tribesmen settled and multiplied in Iraq, where
the great Arab centres were Basra and Kufa. These originated at the
Fig. 54. The eastern provinces of the Omayyad and Ahhasid Caliphates
time of the conquest as military camps in which the Moslem Arabs
were supposed to be segregated aloof from the mass of the population,
owning no land and supported by the tribute of their subjects. The
detailed administration of the empire was carried out in Byzantine
or Persian forms and was left in the hands of Byzantine or Persian
minor officials. This segregation gradually broke down. The main
changes took place in the Caliphate of Abd al Malik (685-705), who
made Arabic the language of public business instead of Pahlavi or
Greek and created an Arabic coinage. Hajjaj, his viceroy in Iraq,
took the notable step of abolishing the exemption from land-tax
(kharaj) hitherto enjoyed by converts to Islam among the subject
peoples. This, however, caused a rift between the converts and the
true Arab Moslems. Converts were regarded as clients, Mazvali, and
in desire for equality tended to support unorthodox sects.
The immigrant Arab population increased until Kufa and Basra
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The volume is titled Iraq and the Persian Gulf The historical term used to describe the body of water between the Arabian Peninsula and Iran. (London: Naval Intelligence Division, 1944).
The report contains preliminary remarks by the Director of Naval Intelligence, 1942 (John Henry Godfrey) and the Director of Naval Intelligence, 1944 (E G N Rushbrook).
There then follows thirteen chapters:
- I. Introduction.
- II. Geology and description of the land.
- III. Coasts of the Persian Gulf The historical term used to describe the body of water between the Arabian Peninsula and Iran. .
- IV. Climate, vegetation and fauna.
- V. History.
- VI. People.
- VII. Distribution of the people.
- VIII. Administration and public life.
- IX. Public health and disease.
- X. Irrigation, agriculture, and minor industry.
- XI. Currency, finance, commerce and oil.
- XII. Ports and inland towns.
- XIII. Communications.
- Appendices: stratigraphy; meteorological tables; ten historical sites, chronological table; weights and measures; authorship, authorities and maps.
There follows a section listing 105 text figures and maps and a section listing over 200 illustrations.
- Extent and format
- 1 volume (430 folios)
- Arrangement
The volume is divided into a number of chapters, sub-sections whose arrangement is detailed in the contents section (folios 7-13) which includes a section on text-figures and maps, and list of illustrations. The volume consists of front matter pages (xviii), and then a further 682 pages in the original pagination system.
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Foliation: the foliation sequence (used for referencing) commences at the front cover with 1, and terminates at the inside back cover with 430; these numbers are written in pencil, are circled, and are located in the top right corner of the recto The front of a sheet of paper or leaf, often abbreviated to 'r'. side of each folio.
Pagination: the file also contains an original printed pagination sequence.
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- 'IRAQ AND THE PERSIAN GULF'
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- front, back, spine, edge, head, tail, front-i, 2r:253r, 254r, 255r:429v, back-i
- Author
- East India Company, the Board of Control, the India Office, or other British Government Department
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