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'File 61/18 [II] (D 125) Bin Saud'

Date: 28 Jan 1932-19 Feb 1932 (CE, Gregorian)
Publication Date: 28 Jan 1932-19 Feb 1932 (CE, Gregorian)
Publication Place: In 1925 Ibn Saud united the Arabian regions of Najd and Hejaz to create the Kingdom of Najd and Hejaz, of which he was ruler. Great Britain formally recognised the Kingdom of Najd and Hejaz under the Treaty of Jeddah in 1927. The Kingdom of Najd and Hejaz
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Language: Arabic
Type: Document
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'The riding camel (Hèdjīn) of Scherīf Jaẖja, a son of Scherīf Aẖmed, whose father was the famous Grand Scherīf Abd èl-Muṯṯálib, who died in 1886 (see about this last king of Mecca of the old type Mecca, vol. I, pp. 16ff., 174ff.), with a rich silver embroidered saddlecloth (batāt). Jaʹiah’s slave holds the bridle; Next to him stands Jaʹja himself in a riding suit and on the left two sherifs of low rank in long clothes. Photographer: al-Sayyid ʻAbd al-Ghaffār

Author: Yahya’s slave
Date: 1886-1889 (CE, Gregorian)
Publication Date: 1886-1889 (CE, Gregorian)
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Language: Arabic
Type: Picture
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'The Tomb of Mèjmūnah and the immediate surroundings'. Photographer: al-Sayyid ʻAbd al-Ghaffār

Author: an arched entryway in the middle – forms an enclosure with two white-washed buildings facing one another. This small cluster of structures is the building visible from afar in X463/7. Both buildings are flat-roofed with rounded crenellations. The building on the right features a low
Date: 1886-1889 (CE, Gregorian)
Publication Date: 1886-1889 (CE, Gregorian)
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Language: Arabic
Type: Picture
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'Two different photos of the Rīkah, the throne chair on which the virgin bride is usually raised in Mecca on the night of Duchlah (see Mecca, Vol. II, p. 167ff.). On B the groom sits where the bride should sit.' [1/2] Photographer: al-Sayyid ʻAbd al-Ghaffār

Author: natural light in the middle-ground. This is the first of two related images. Inscriptions: Above the top image
Date: 1886-1889 (CE, Gregorian)
Publication Date: 1886-1889 (CE, Gregorian)
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Language: Arabic
Type: Picture
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Mukhtaṣar fī ṣanʿat baʿḍ al-ālāt al-raṣadīyah wa-al-ʿamal bihā A summary of the manufacture and operation of some observational instruments Birjandī, ʻAbd al-ʻAlī ibn Muḥammad ibn Ḥusayn Burjandi, Abd al-Ali ibn Muhammad ibn Hussein and Risālat mukhtaṣarah shāmilah kayfīyat inshāʾ al-jadwal wa-istikhrāj aʿmālihi A brief comprehensive message on how to create the table and extract its work

Author: the honorific title Diyānat Khān
Date: 18 Ramadan 1066-2 Dhū al-Qaʿdah 1066 (AH, Hijri qamari)
Publication Date: 18 Ramadan 1066-2 Dhū al-Qaʿdah 1066 (AH, Hijri qamari)
Publication Place: Hyderabad Deccan
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Language: Arabic
Type: Book
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Khuṭbat al-shaykh al-raʼīs hujjat al-ḥaqq Abī ʻAlī ibn Sīnā qaddasa Allāhu rūḥahu wa-qad awrada fīhā maʻná al-ilāhīyāt wa-al-riyāḍīyāt wa-al-ṭabīʻīyāt ʻalá aḥsan ʻibāratin wa-aṣaḥḥahā The sermon of the main Sheikh, Hujjat al-Haq, Abu Ali Ibn Sina, may God sanctify his soul, in which he mentioned the meaning of divinity, mathematics, and nature in the best and most correct expression Avicenna Ibn Sina

Author: Abū 'Alī al-Ḥusayn ibn ʻAbd Allāh
Date: 1182 (AH, Hijri qamari)
Publication Date: 1182 (AH, Hijri qamari)
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Language: Arabic
Type: Book
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Luʼluʼ al-naẓīm fī rawm al-taʻallum wa-al-taʻlīm Luluʼ al-Nazim in Rum Learning and Teaching Anṣārī, Zakarīyā ibn Muḥammad Ansari, Zakariya ibn Muhammad and Fatḥ al-ḥayy al-qayyūm sharḥ rawḍat al-fuhūm Fath al-Hayy al-Qayyum Explanation of Rawdat al-Fahum Sunbāṭī, Aḥmad ibn ʻAbd al-Ḥaqq Sunbati, Ahmad ibn Abd al-Haqq

Date: Dhū al-Qaʿdah 1139 (AH, Hijri qamari)
Publication Date: Dhū al-Qaʿdah 1139 (AH, Hijri qamari)
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Language: Arabic
Type: Book
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Emanations of Musk from Beiruti Verse

Author: the prolific Lebanese poet Shaykh Ibrāhīm al-Aḥdab. The author was first and foremost a traditionalist in his literary as well as his legal career. The poems are of various rhyme schemes and meters and display mastery of classical prosody. They are primarily madh
Date: 1868 (CE, Gregorian)
Publication Date: 1868 (CE, Gregorian)
Subject: 0
Language: Arabic
Type: Book
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The Pillar Regarding Creation and Critique of Poetry

Author: Muhammad Badr al-Din al-Na’sani al-Halabi. Publication of the work was financed by Muhammad Kamal al-Na’sani and Muhammad ‘Abd al-‘Aziz. It was printed at al-Sa’adah Press in Cairo and distributed from the al-Khanji bookstore. These individuals and organizations were all part of the well-developed printing and publishing trade in early-20th century Cairo. The same editing and publishing team cooperated to bring other classical literary works into print. A biography of Ibn Rashīq
Date: 1907 (CE, Gregorian)
Publication Date: 1907 (CE, Gregorian)
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Language: Arabic
Type: Book
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'Two different photos of the Rīkah, the throne chair on which the virgin bride is usually raised in Mecca on the night of Duchlah (see Mecca, Vol. II, p. 167ff.). On B the groom sits where the bride should sit.' [2/2] Photographer: al-Sayyid ʻAbd al-Ghaffār

Author: the glass lanterns hanging directly in the centre of the two recesses visible. This is the second of two related images. Inscriptions: Above the top image
Date: 1886-1889 (CE, Gregorian)
Publication Date: 1886-1889 (CE, Gregorian)
Subject: 0
Language: Arabic
Type: Picture
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Kitāb al-tadhkirah fī al-hay’ah The book of the ticket in the body Ṭūsī, Naṣīr al-Dīn Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad Tusi, Nasir al-Din Muhammad bin Muhammad and al-Tabṣirah fī ʿilm al-hayʾah Insight into the knowledge of the body Kharaqī, ʻAbd al-Jabbār ibn ʻAbd al-Jabbār Kharqi, Abdul-Jabbar bin Abdul-Jabbar

Author: Muhammad Ridā ibn ‘Aziz Allah al-Tunī
Date: 1107 (AH, Hijri qamari)
Publication Date: 1107 (AH, Hijri qamari)
Subject: 1
Language: Arabic
Type: Book
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Kitāb al-dalālāt ʻalá al-ittiṣālāt wa-qirānāt al-kawākib fī al-burūj al-ithná ʻashar wa-ashrāfihā wa-hubūṭātihā wa-istiqāmātihā wa-rujūʻihā wa-ẓuhūrihā wa-ghaybātihā wa-kawnihā maʻa al-raʼs wa-al-dhanab The Book of Significations of Communications and Conjunctions of Planets in the Twelve Zodiac Signs, Their Nominations, Descendants, Ascension, Return, Appearance, Occultation, and Being with the Head and the Tail

Date: 867 (AH, Hijri qamari)
Publication Date: 867 (AH, Hijri qamari)
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Language: Arabic
Type: Book
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Sharḥ Fuṣūl Abuqrāṭ Explanation of the Chapters of Hippocrates Ibn Abī Ṣādiq al-Nīsābūrī, Abū al-Qāsim ʻAbd al-Raḥmān ibn ʻAlī Ibn Abi Sadiq al-Naysaburi, Abu al-Qasim Abd al-Rahman ibn Ali and Kitāb fī-dafʿ al-maḍarr al-kullīyah li-l-abdān al-insānīyah A book on repelling total harm to human bodies Avicenna Ibn Sina

Date: 1094 (AH, Hijri qamari)
Publication Date: 1094 (AH, Hijri qamari)
Publication Place: Burhanpur, India
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Language: Arabic
Type: Book
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'P.A's Private file (Major T. Hickinbotham C.I.E., O.B.E.)'

Author: an agent. and others acknowledging various gifts and visits. The majority of the correspondence is in Arabic with English translations included for some letters. The file also contains a limited number of letters from individuals outside of Bahrain including members of the ruling families of Kuwait and Abu Dhabi.
Date: 20 Oct 1943-14 Sep 1944 (CE, Gregorian)
Publication Date: 20 Oct 1943-14 Sep 1944 (CE, Gregorian)
Subject: 0
Language: Arabic
Type: Document
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'File 5/1 IV Kuwait Oil Company'

Date: 2 Jun 1931-7 Aug 1932 (CE, Gregorian)
Publication Date: 2 Jun 1931-7 Aug 1932 (CE, Gregorian)
Subject: 1
Language: ara,eng
Type: Document
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'File 4/23 Civil Engineer for Kuwait'

Author: the Ruler of Kuwait
Date: 17 Mar 1939-19 Jun 1939 (CE, Gregorian)
Publication Date: 17 Mar 1939-19 Jun 1939 (CE, Gregorian)
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Language: ara,eng
Type: Document
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'File 19/3 H.D.M. Launches (For Sultan)'

Author: the Sultan of Muscat
Date: 14 Oct 1945-28 Nov 1948 (CE, Gregorian)
Publication Date: 14 Oct 1945-28 Nov 1948 (CE, Gregorian)
Subject: 0
Language: ara,eng
Type: Document
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‘File 29/21 i FOOD SUPPLIES (RICE)’

Author: Britain from the nineteenth century to 1971 to refer to the present-day United Arab Emirates.
Date: 27 Jan 1943-10 Jun 1945 (CE, Gregorian)
Publication Date: 27 Jan 1943-10 Jun 1945 (CE, Gregorian)
Subject: 0
Language: ara,eng
Type: Document
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'4/1 Bahrain Finances 3'

Author: an agent. in Bahrain by Charles Belgrave
Date: 21 Nov 1935-10 Oct 1940 (CE, Gregorian)
Publication Date: 21 Nov 1935-10 Oct 1940 (CE, Gregorian)
Subject: 1
Language: ara,eng
Type: Document
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'File 33/4 correspondence regarding Radio Sets, Licences, etc.'

Author: the Government of Bahrain. The proceeds of wireless licences were handed over to the Political Agent A mid-ranking political representative
Date: 4 Jan 1938-23 Apr 1949 (CE, Gregorian)
Publication Date: 4 Jan 1938-23 Apr 1949 (CE, Gregorian)
Subject: 0
Language: ara,eng
Type: Document
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'File 9/1 III Visits of His Majesty's Ships'

Author: the correspondence include: the nature of visits
Date: 6 Jan 1950-31 Dec 1950 (CE, Gregorian)
Publication Date: 6 Jan 1950-31 Dec 1950 (CE, Gregorian)
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Language: ara,eng
Type: Document
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'File 17/7 III Electric Installation Political Agency Bahrain'

Author: an agent. 's buildings. Most of the file consists of correspondence between the Assistant Political Agent A mid-ranking political representative
Date: 22 Mar 1934-2 Jul 1944 (CE, Gregorian)
Publication Date: 22 Mar 1934-2 Jul 1944 (CE, Gregorian)
Subject: 0
Language: ara,eng
Type: Document
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'File 4/13 IV Kuwait Education'

Author: an agent. in Kuwait and the British Council)
Date: 17 Jul 1945-28 Dec 1949 (CE, Gregorian)
Publication Date: 17 Jul 1945-28 Dec 1949 (CE, Gregorian)
Subject: 0
Language: ara,eng,fra
Type: Document
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'File 5/191 IV Individual slavery cases'

Author: Britain from the nineteenth century to 1971 to refer to the present-day United Arab Emirates. . Of the eleven subjects contained in the volume
Date: 1 Apr 1929-3 Jul 1934 (CE, Gregorian)
Publication Date: 1 Apr 1929-3 Jul 1934 (CE, Gregorian)
Subject: 1
Language: ara,eng
Type: Document
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File 9/4 ‘Political Agency Koweit. IX/4. Civil Cases from 1909’

Author: an agent. in Kuwait. These case papers relate to the investigation and resolution of 27 individual claims that were submitted to the Political Agent A mid-ranking political representative
Date: 29 Sep 1908-18 Jul 1913 (CE, Gregorian)
Publication Date: 29 Sep 1908-18 Jul 1913 (CE, Gregorian)
Subject: 0
Language: ara,eng,fas,fra,tam
Type: Document
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'Education of Saiyid Said, son of H.H. the Sultan of Muscat'

Author: British officials but the Sultan felt this was not suitable. Letters discuss a school in Baghdad and necessary arrangements such as the rent of a house.
Date: 30 Mar 1926-31 Jul 1928 (CE, Gregorian)
Publication Date: 30 Mar 1926-31 Jul 1928 (CE, Gregorian)
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Language: ara,eng
Type: Document
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'1938 Treaties with Muscat'

Author: the conclusion of a new treaty to replace the Treaty of Friendship
Date: 5 Feb 1939 (CE, Gregorian)
Publication Date: 5 Feb 1939 (CE, Gregorian)
Subject: 1
Language: ara,eng
Type: Document
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'File 6/7 II Kuwait landing ground'

Author: Royal Air Force
Date: 19 Jun 1939-24 Dec 1949 (CE, Gregorian)
Publication Date: 19 Jun 1939-24 Dec 1949 (CE, Gregorian)
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Language: ara,eng
Type: Document
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'File No. 4/5 Weekly Diary Files. 1913'

Author: Major Arthur Prescott Trevor
Date: 13 Jan 1913-27 Dec 1913 (CE, Gregorian)
Publication Date: 13 Jan 1913-27 Dec 1913 (CE, Gregorian)
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Language: ara,eng
Type: Document
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'File 6/12 Waqaf [Waqf] Department, its formation'

Author: dedication to Muslim religious or charitable purposes. The file covers various matters
Date: 3 Aug 1927-22 May 1939 (CE, Gregorian)
Publication Date: 3 Aug 1927-22 May 1939 (CE, Gregorian)
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Language: ara,eng
Type: Document
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'File 53/11 XIX (D 163) Kuwait Date Gardens'

Author: Shaikh Aḥmad al-Jābir Āl Ṣabāḥ
Date: 4 Apr 1940-10 Oct 1942 (CE, Gregorian)
Publication Date: 4 Apr 1940-10 Oct 1942 (CE, Gregorian)
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Language: ara,eng
Type: Document
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‘Vol 37, 38, 40 Letters inward and outward’

Author: Lieutenant-Colonel Sir Ephraim Gerrish Stannus
Date: 27 Jan 1825-23 Dec 1825 (CE, Gregorian)
Publication Date: 27 Jan 1825-23 Dec 1825 (CE, Gregorian)
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Language: ara,eng
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Students' Guide

Author: the honorific Shaykh al-Islam. Manhaj al-Ṭullāb
Date: 1868 (CE, Gregorian)
Publication Date: 1868 (CE, Gregorian)
Subject: 0
Language: Arabic
Type: Book
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Kitāb fī ‘ilm al-bayṭarah A book on veterinary science

Author: Muḥammad Nāṣir al-Dīn ibn al-Majlis al-‘Ālī al-Sayfī Burdbak al-Muḥammadī Ra’s Nawbat al-Nuwab al-Ẓāhirī
Date: 2 Dhū al-Qa‘dah 870 (AH, Hijri qamari)
Publication Date: 2 Dhū al-Qa‘dah 870 (AH, Hijri qamari)
Subject: 0
Language: Arabic
Type: Book
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'File A/12 Arrest and capture of slaves'

Author: an agent. in Bahrain. The first case
Date: 2 Mar 1937-27 Jan 1938 (CE, Gregorian)
Publication Date: 2 Mar 1937-27 Jan 1938 (CE, Gregorian)
Subject: 1
Language: ara,eng
Type: Document
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Creation and History

Author: the prolific French orientalist Clement Huart
Date: 1899/1916 (CE, Gregorian)
Publication Date: 1899/1916 (CE, Gregorian)
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Language: Arabic
Type: Book
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'File D/2 Miscellaneous Correspondence with Basrah'

Author: the Consul on behalf of various Bahraini citizens. The file contains translated copies of letters and petitions addressed to the Consul
Date: 18 Jan 1935-18 Mar 1940 (CE, Gregorian)
Publication Date: 18 Jan 1935-18 Mar 1940 (CE, Gregorian)
Subject: 0
Language: ara,eng
Type: Document
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File 3540/1916 'MESOPOTAMIA 1920 PORTION (2)'

Author: British officials relating to the British occupation of Mesopotamia [Iraq
Date: 1 May 1920 - 22 Oct 1920 (CE, Gregorian)
Publication Date: 1 May 1920 - 22 Oct 1920 (CE, Gregorian)
Subject: 1
Language: ara,eng
Type: Document
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'File 5/1 XI Kuwait Oil Company'

Author: the Ruler of Kuwait in both English and Arabic.
Date: 28 Nov 1934-28 Dec 1934 (CE, Gregorian)
Publication Date: 28 Nov 1934-28 Dec 1934 (CE, Gregorian)
Subject: 1
Language: ara,eng
Type: Document
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'File [11/4] Salute by H.H. The Sultan To Political Officers When Leaving and Returning to Muscat'

Author: an agent. in Muscat and the Council of Ministers of the Sultanate of Muscat and Oman regarding arrangements for the firing of a gun salute upon the return of the Political Agent A mid-ranking political representative
Date: 30 Aug 1926-12 May 1927 (CE, Gregorian)
Publication Date: 30 Aug 1926-12 May 1927 (CE, Gregorian)
Subject: 0
Language: ara,eng
Type: Document
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'File 4/16 I Bahrain State Education'

Author: Adrian-Vallance concerning reforms undertaken between December 1939 and May 1940
Date: 15 Feb 1940-31 May 1944 (CE, Gregorian)
Publication Date: 15 Feb 1940-31 May 1944 (CE, Gregorian)
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Language: ara,eng
Type: Document
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