Publication Date
1430
Publication Place
Beirut -
Beirut: Arab House of Encyclopedias
Subject
History
Type
Book
Language
Arabic
Digital
No
Manuscript
No
Pages Count
214
Physical Dimensions
214 ص.
Library
University of Minnesota Libraries
Library Asset ID
OCLC: 990016613830402791, OCLC: 745394810
Record ID
cdi_globaltitleindex_catalog_151693326
Library Location
Request
Date
1430
Notes
This book includes a number of sections that dealt with aspects of the history of the Arabian Peninsula in the modern era and various features of the intertwined relations between its countries. Some of these sections dealt with a presentation of the facts of the trip of the Ottoman naval commander Sidi Ali to the Arabian Peninsula and the Indian Ocean, in the year 961 AH / 1553 AD. They shed important light on a page in the history of the Ottoman-Portuguese conflict in those regions in the sixteenth century, and they also dealt with the circumstances of Nader Shah’s siege of the city of Basra, in the year 1743 and the position of the Gulf powers towards it, and a section of it examined the political and social repercussions that resulted from the establishment of the first Saudi state in eastern Arabia, whether represented by the position of the governors of Baghdad and the Iraqi tribes towards it, or what occurred from the extension of the Egyptian military presence, during the reign of Muhammad Ali Pasha, to those regions, and its arrival to the shores of the Arabian Peninsula, and the resulting conflict with Britain on the one hand, and the birth of Ottoman Baghdad on the other hand. Other topics also dealt with cultural and social aspects of the history of the Gulf, including the impact of the city of Zubarah in Qatar in directing culture in the eastern Arabian Peninsula, its pioneering role in the movement of writing and research in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, and another study on the country of Oman, its history and social and geographical conditions, as it appeared in the writings of the most prominent Iraqi historians in the Ottoman era. There is another study on the social and economic conditions of the countries of the Arabian Peninsula, as depicted by correspondents of the Al-Zawraa newspaper of Baghdad during nearly half a century, starting with its founding during the reign of Midhat Pasha in 1869 until the end of the era of the Ottoman Empire in Iraq. There is an independent study on Othman bin Sanad, a historian who was born on Failaka Island in the northern Gulf, lived most of his life in Basra, and wrote an important group of books, including a huge history of Iraq, in which he dealt with the events of eastern Arabia, and another study on a historian from the people of the town of Al-Zubayr, who wrote a number of historical and literary books, in which he dealt with the events of his town, Basra, Kuwait, and a number of other areas of the Gulf. Includes bibliographic references and index
