"ملف ‏19/109 II (C 17)‎ البحرين: علاقات الحاكم مع القوى الخارجية الأخرى" [و‎‎٩‎٢] (٥٣٤/١٨٩)

HOTS on history of Zubarah
and
Claims of Shaikh of Bahrain on Zubarah,
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From the old. Residency files I have extracted and
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precised the following: , ,
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in 1766/a 1 Khalifa Section of the ulab emigrants from
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Nejd, migrated from Ko.¥eit and settled in Zubarah, By 1^82
the A1 Khalifa has succeeded in establishing their supremacy
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over the whole of the Qatar peninsula, and in this year
attacked the Persian Gover ;or of Bahrain and captured the
i slands.
From this year to 1342 there was continued fighting
and confusion.
in 1B42 Shaikh lbdullah of Bahrain quarrelled with his
grand nephew one Moh amed bin Khalifa and drove him out of
Bahrain,, Mohamed bin Khalifa went to Qatar and rebuilt the
town of Zubarah which had been deserved since 1811.
* In 1847 Shaikh Abdullah at the.invitation of Shaikh Esa
bin Tarif of it the A1 bin Ali made an abortive attempt to
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reduce Shaikh I'^hamed bin Khalifa and died the following
year. ' ,
Apparently one Shaikh Mohamed bin Thani succeeded
Shaikh Esa bin Tarif as head of the A1 bin Ali tribe during
the next decade, and rose to power in the Qatar peninsula,
in 1067 and 63 a series of raids and counter raids
^ between Bahrain and El Qatar ensued in which the Resident
interfered and deposed the Shaikh of Bahrain Shaikh Mohamed
and fined others heavily and Shaikh Ali };ii3 brother who had
commanded the-forces of the Shaikh of Bahrain-was installed.
Shaikh Mohamed bin Thani in 1369 signed an agreement with
the Resident promising to pay Shaikh of Bahrain 9000 Krans
w Zakat w a year,'to refer all disputes to the Resident and
to maintain with Shaikh Ali bin Khalifa the same relations
which had existed between himself and the former Shaikh of
Bahrain,
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