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'File: E/4. Turkish mudirs of Wakra and Zubara on the Qatar Peninsular'

Title	'File: E/4. Turkish mudirs of Wakra and Zubara on the Qatar Peninsular'
Author	a member of the Āl Bū ‘Aynayn tribe at al-Wakrah in December 1907
Publication Date:	16 Jan 1902-26 Nov 1910 (CE, Gregorian)
Type	Document
Language	ara,eng
Digital	Yes
Manuscript	No
Pages Count	102
Library:	Qatar Digital Library
Library Asset ID	IOR/R/15/2/27
Record ID	vdc_100000000193.0x0002fa
Library Location	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.
Date	16 Jan 1902-26 Nov 1910 (CE, Gregorian)
Notes	This file contains correspondence between British officials at Bushire and Bahrain, Dr Samuel Zwemer of the Arabian Mission, and Captain Kemp aboard HMS Phoenix . These correspondence primarily concern the presence of Turkish local governors ( mudīr s) in the Qatar peninsula, in particular Yūsuf Beg at al-Wakrah and al-‘Udayd, as a part of a Turkish plan to establish a series of guardhouses along the eastern coast of Arabia. The file contains details of John Calcott Gaskin's visit to Shaikh Jāsim bin Muḥammad Āl Thānī in retirement at Lusayl in 1903 (folio 47), as well as relations between Shaikh ‘Abd al-Raḥmān bin Jāsim and Aḥmad bin Muḥammad Āl Thānī. There are also details concerning the attempted assassination of Shaikh ‘Abd al-Raḥmān by a member of the Āl Bū ‘Aynayn tribe at al-Wakrah in December 1907, and subsequent relations between the Āl Thānī family and Āl Bū ‘Aynayn tribe in 1908. There are incidental mentions of the 1903 outbreak of the plague in the Gulf, the Arabian Mission hospital at Bahrain (folio 15), the opening of a dispensary by the Agency An office of the East India Company and, later, of the British Raj, headed by an agent. in Bahrain (folios 18-19), and protests by pearl divers at the proposal of a Frenchman to dive with ‘modern appliances’ (folio 25).
Erişim Koşulları	Unrestricted
Düzenleme	This file is arranged in approximately chronological order.
Eski Harici Referans(lar)	Confidential file: E/4

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'File: E/4. Turkish mudirs of Wakra and Zubara on the Qatar Peninsular'

Author a member of the Āl Bū ‘Aynayn tribe at al-Wakrah in December 1907

Publication Date 16 Jan 1902-26 Nov 1910 (CE, Gregorian)

Type Document

Language ara,eng

Digital Yes

Manuscript No

Pages Count 102

Library Qatar Digital Library

Library Asset ID IOR/R/15/2/27

Record ID vdc_100000000193.0x0002fa

Library Location 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.

Date 16 Jan 1902-26 Nov 1910 (CE, Gregorian)

Notes This file contains correspondence between British officials at Bushire and Bahrain, Dr Samuel Zwemer of the Arabian Mission, and Captain Kemp aboard HMS Phoenix . These correspondence primarily concern the presence of Turkish local governors ( mudīr s) in the Qatar peninsula, in particular Yūsuf Beg at al-Wakrah and al-‘Udayd, as a part of a Turkish plan to establish a series of guardhouses along the eastern coast of Arabia. The file contains details of John Calcott Gaskin's visit to Shaikh Jāsim bin Muḥammad Āl Thānī in retirement at Lusayl in 1903 (folio 47), as well as relations between Shaikh ‘Abd al-Raḥmān bin Jāsim and Aḥmad bin Muḥammad Āl Thānī. There are also details concerning the attempted assassination of Shaikh ‘Abd al-Raḥmān by a member of the Āl Bū ‘Aynayn tribe at al-Wakrah in December 1907, and subsequent relations between the Āl Thānī family and Āl Bū ‘Aynayn tribe in 1908. There are incidental mentions of the 1903 outbreak of the plague in the Gulf, the Arabian Mission hospital at Bahrain (folio 15), the opening of a dispensary by the Agency An office of the East India Company and, later, of the British Raj, headed by an agent. in Bahrain (folios 18-19), and protests by pearl divers at the proposal of a Frenchman to dive with ‘modern appliances’ (folio 25).

Erişim Koşulları Unrestricted

Düzenleme This file is arranged in approximately chronological order.

Eski Harici Referans(lar) Confidential file: E/4