Author
the Āl Khalīfah family
Publication Date
12 Dec 1900-19 Feb 1906 (CE, Gregorian)
Type
Document
Language
ara,eng
Digital
Yes
Manuscript
No
Pages Count
126
Library
Qatar Digital Library
Library Asset ID
IOR/R/15/2/28
Record ID
vdc_100000000193.0x0002fb
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
12 Dec 1900-19 Feb 1906 (CE, Gregorian)
Notes
This file contains correspondence between British officials at Bahrain and Bushire; Captain Oldham on board HMS
Lapwing
; Shaikh ‘Īsá bin ‘Alī Āl Khalīfah, ruler of Bahrain; and the
kaymakam
(Ottoman governor) of al-Qaṭīf.
These correspondence concern the murder in 1900 of Salmān bin Di‘aj Āl Khalīfah, cousin of Shaikh ‘Īsá, together with some twenty-five others, at the hands of the ‘Behaih’ section of the Āl Murrah tribe while on their annual hawking trip on the mainland of Eastern Arabia at al-Darayah, some thirty to forty miles south of al-Qaṭīf.
The file contains details of the murder itself (folio 7), as well as subsequent dealings with Turkish officials and the Āl Thānī family in order to avert revenge attacks (‘blood feud’) by the Āl Khalīfah family (for example, folio 45) between 1902 and 1906. There are incidental references to the outbreak of plague in the Gulf in 1903 (folio 76).
Erişim Koşulları
Unrestricted
Düzenleme
This file is arranged approximately in chronological order.
Eski Harici Referans(lar)
Confidential file: E/5
