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Publications, Newspaper Cuttings, Photographs and Correspondence about Persia and the Persian Gulf [358v] (721/879)
The record is made up of 1 file (436 folios). It was created in 14 Oct 1891-Sep 1911. It was written in English, French and German. 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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- were .ucL on nue genius, more or less egotistical and
passionate votaries of the godde s of pleasure. But the Arab
poet having lived to a good old age was able to bequeath to
the world the luscious and tempting fruits of his ripened
genius, and perhaps, came to believe that the “ greatest
happiness of the greatest number ” is probably the greatest
happiness an individual can enjoy on this earth. He was
nicknamed the “ Straying Prince, ” the “ Old Sinner,” etc.,
and his poetry, though not of a grossly sensual charac
ter, and highly admired for its varied beauties, is still
fought shy of by the pious and the prudent, and, like that of
Byron, is “ pas pour la jeune filled The ancient poetry
of Arabia was divided into various kinds more or less deve
loped in the following order: Impromptu verses in self-praise
recited on the field of battle before the adversary and other
war songs, verses composed in praise of one’s own hospitali-
ty, fidelity, etc.; eulogy, satire, elegy, etc. on another; moral
reflections, and love songs : praise of one’s mistress, com
plaint of her cruelty or infidelity, one’s exploits and con
quests among the fair sex, etc. All or most of them were
afterwards amalgamated in odes, which were generally
divided into three parts : the prologue or introduction, in
which the poet almost invariably spoke of his mistress and
the happy hours he had enjoyed in her company and the pain
he suffered on separation from her in bygone times, all of
which reminiscences were usually recalled on seeing the ruins
or traces of her people’s former encampment in the desert.
The poet, riding on a camel in company of two real or imagi
nary companions, suddenly comes across a half-obliterated
narrow ditch which is dug around an encampment to keep
out water from entering into the tents, a few blackened
stones of reddish hue which had once served as tripods or
fireplaces. These signs of a former occupation of the place by
his beloved mistress and her relations conjure up before him
a vivid scene of former times, and the poet-lover, overpowered
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by his emotions and unable to dismiss this ghostly scene
from his mental vision, entreats his companions to stop,
alights from his camel and, sitting down on the spot, waters
the place of sacred memory with copious draughts of his tears.
After this introduction, which is called ‘ Tashbib ’ or re-
memberence of youth, comes either a description of the poets’
adventures in love, war, or travels (not unfrequently mixed
with long-drawn encomiums on his riding camel or horse)
praise or censure of some individual. The third and the
art of the ode usually contains moral reflections, some
magery or praise of his tribe or of himself.
al-Qais is especially noted for his love poems and
of beautiful women. His famous ode ending in
m’ is rightly placed at the head of the match-
called the ' Seven Hangers,’ which for their
ie beauties stand unrivalled up to this day.
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walls of ' Kaba,’ then an idol tem-
ts of Arabia, (who used to gather
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The file contains miscellaneous papers, mostly printed publications, newspaper cuttings and photographs, relating to Persia and the Persian Gulf The historical term used to describe the body of water between the Arabian Peninsula and Iran. .
It includes a few items of correspondence, including letters to George Nathaniel Curzon relating to the Trans-Persian Railway, and Russian influence in Persia, and handwritten notes by Curzon on topics including arms traffic in the Persian Gulf The historical term used to describe the body of water between the Arabian Peninsula and Iran. , and the Trans-Persian Railway.
The file also includes copies of printed publications relating to Persia, including: three pamphlets on Lake Urmi [Urmia] in North West Persia, by Robert Theodore Günther (two of which include duplicate copies of a map of the Lake Urmi Basin, Mss Eur F111/356, f 132); a paper entitled ‘Paper to be read before the Indian Section of the Society of Arts, Thursday, May 8th. 1902. The Past and Present Connection of England with the Persian Gulf The historical term used to describe the body of water between the Arabian Peninsula and Iran. . By Thomas Jewell Bennett.’; and an article from the Journal of the Asiatic Society of Bengal (Volume 5, Number 8, August 1909) entitled ‘Some Persian Folk-lore Stories concerning the Ruins of Persepolis.’ by Captain Charles Monk Gibbon, Royal Irish Fusiliers.
It includes in addition: two issues of a French pamphlet entitled Bulletin de l’Union des Associations des Anciens Élèves des Écoles Supérieures de Commerce (Reconnues par l’État) [ Bulletin of the Union of Associations of Former Students of the Higher Schools of Commerce (Recognized by the State) ], dated 20 January and 5 February 1904, which include articles by M E Peschier on the Baghdad Railway; and a German bookseller’s catalogue entitled Indica et Iranica Teilweise aus der Bibliothek von Viggo Fausböll Professor der indischen Sprachen an der Universität Kopenhagen I. Literaturen und Sprachen Indiens und Persiens [ Indica et Iranica Partially from the Library of Viggo Fausboll Professor of Indian Languages at the University of Copenhagen. Literatures and Languages of India and Persia ].
Folios to 250 to 370 of the file mostly consist of cuttings relating to Persia and the Persian Gulf The historical term used to describe the body of water between the Arabian Peninsula and Iran. from various newspapers and other publications, including: The Times , The Morning Post , The Spectator , The Civil & Military Gazette , The Times of India , and The Standard . The cuttings concern topics including: British interests in Persia; the Russian influence in Persia, including the Persian Government signing a concession to a Russian company for the construction of a cart-road between Kazvin, Resht and Enzeli, and Anglo-Russian rivalry in trade with Persia; the cholera epidemic in Persia; and the events of the Persian Constitutional Revolution of 1905-11.
Folios 386 to 433 of the file consist of black and white photographs, including:
- Three photographs in an envelope entitled ‘Photos of Koweit [Kuwait]’, of Mabarak-bin-Subah [Shaikh Mubārak bin Ṣabāḥ Āl Ṣabāḥ], Shaikh of Kuwait, and his youngest son Naser (f 387), the foreshore of Koweit (f 388), and the residence of the Shaikh of Koweit (f 389)
- Two photographs in an envelope labelled ‘Photos by Parkin (assistant at Brit[ish] Resid[ency] Bushire / of Koweit Muscat. Bushire. Sent to me by Col[onel] Meade. April 1899.’ of Seyed Faisal bin Turki [Sayyid Fayṣal bin Turkī Āl Bū Sa‘īd], Sultan of Muscat (f 392), and Seyed Mohamed bin Turki, half-brother of the Sultan of Muscat (f 391)
- A set of photographs of the following: the South entrance of the Governor’s house, Bushire (f 395); the Political Agency An office of the East India Company and, later, of the British Raj, headed by an agent. and British Consulate, Muskat [Muscat] (f 396); the watch tower on Samana (f 397); Major and Mrs Leigh in Camp in Samana (f 398); Major and Mrs Leigh and Lieutenant Creagh [possibly George Washington Brazier-Creagh] at Mastar [Māster, Persia] (f 399); entrance of Muskat Harbour (f 400); town of Muskat from the harbour (f 401); Fort Jelali, Muskat (f 402); Fort Mahrani [Fort Al-Mirani], Muscat (f 403); and the British Vice Consulate at Mohamerah [Khorramshahr] (f 404)
- Printed images of the following: the British Agency An office of the East India Company and, later, of the British Raj, headed by an agent. , Manamah, Bahrain (f 407); Shaikh Khaz’ al of Muhammareh [Shaikh Khaz‘al bin Jābir bin Mirdāw al-Ka‘bī] (f 408); the view at Haz’-adh-Dhabi, Trucial Oman A name used by Britain from the nineteenth century to 1971 to refer to the present-day United Arab Emirates. (f 409); salt rocks on Qishm Island near Namakdan (f 410); the Hindiyan River near Zaidan (f 411); a parade of British and Persian troops at Rishehr, 1905 (f 412); two views of Muhammerah Town (f 413); a creek near Basrah [Basra] from the Shatt-al-’Arab (f 414); a crowd at Ras-al-Khaimah (f 415); the Foreshore, Kuwait (f 416); the Hanaini well, Bahrain Island (f 417); ancient tumuli, Bahrain Island (f 418); Kumzar (f 419); Lingeh (f 420); the Tis Valley in Persian Makran (f 421); the West end of Masqat Town [Muscat Town] with the Sultan’s Palace and Fort Mirani (f 422); and the Eastern end of Masqat Town, with the British Consulate on the left, and the Sultan’s palace on the right (f 423).
- Extent and format
- 1 file (436 folios)
- Arrangement
The folios from folio 4 to folio 251 are arranged in rough chronological order. The newspaper cuttings are mostly between folios 249 and 359, and the photographs are at the rear of the file (folios 386 to 433).
- Physical characteristics
Foliation: the foliation sequence (used for referencing) commences at the front cover with 1, and terminates at the inside back cover with 436; 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.
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- Mss Eur F111/356
- Title
- Publications, Newspaper Cuttings, Photographs and Correspondence about Persia and the Persian Gulf
- Pages
- 251r:251v, 253r:253v:264v, 269r:269v, 271r:271v, 275r:276v, 298r:298v, 316r:316v, 322r:322v, 330r:330v, 343r:345v, 348r:349v, 353r:354v, 356r:360v
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