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'4/1 Bahrain State Finances 4'
an agent. in Bahrain by Charles Belgrave
ara,eng
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‘File 7/1 II Land purchased by H.M.G. at (a) Muharraq. (b) Qudhaibiyah. (c) Jufair for R.A.F. (d) Royal Navy’
the British Government
ara,eng
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Ḥayāt al-ḥayawān The Book of Animal Life Damīrī, Muḥammad ibn Mūsá Damīri, Muhammad ibn Musa
Kamāl al-Dīn Muḥammad ibn Mūsá al-Dīrī
Arabic
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Contentment of the Seeker Regarding the Most Famous Arabic Compositions Printed by Eastern and Western Printing Presses
Eastern and Western printing presses) is a bibliographic dictionary of printed works in Arabic
Arabic
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Minhāj al-dukkān wa-dustūr al-a‘yān Minhaj al-Dukkan and the Constitution of Notables al-Kūhīn al-ʻAṭṭār, Abū al-Munā ibn Abī Nāṣr Al-Kawhin Al-Attar, Abu Al-Munā Ibn Abi Nasr
the Jewish pharmacist Abū al-Muná Dāwūd ibn Abī Naṣr ibn Ḥifaz al-Kuhīn al-'Attar al-Isra'īlī al-Harouni
Arabic
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Kashf al-awtār Revealing the Strings Bukhārī, Qāsim ibn Dūst ʻAlī Bukhari, Qāsim ibn Dūst Ali
Qāsim ibn Dūst ʿAlī Bukhārī
Persian
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Untitled treatise on the arts of the lance and warfare Ṭabarī, ʻAbd al-Raḥmān Aḥmad Tabari, Abd al-Rahman Ahmad
other two works in the present volume
Arabic
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‘File 16/68 Old and defaced currency notes & coins – Exchange of.’
an agent. in Bahrain
ara,eng
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'File 2/2 IV Kuwait-Iraq Smuggling'
the King of Iraq and published in the official gazette
ara,eng
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al-Taqsīm wa-al-tashjīr Partition and afforestation al-Rāzī, Abū Bakr Muḥammad ibn Zakarīyā Al-Razi, Abu Bakr Muhammad bin Zakariya and Nihayat al-ikhtiṣār fī ‘ilm al-farā’iḍ The end of the abbreviation in the science of religious duties Ibn al-Labbān, Muḥammad ibn ‘Abd Allāh Ibn Al-Labban, Muhammad bin Abdullah
the Coptic numerals used in the table of contents on ff. 3r-4v. Contents:
Arabic
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'File 53/57 I (D 35) Jariyah [Jahra] Affair and Boundary Dispute between Bin Saud and Shaikh of Kuwait'
Shaikh Sālim to the Political Agent A mid-ranking political representative
ara,eng
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'File 4/13 IV Zubara'
Britain's Political Agent A mid-ranking political representative
ara,eng
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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
Abu al-Qasim Abd al-Rahman ibn Ali ibn Abi Sadiq al-Nisaburi
ara,fas
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'First view of the city of Mecca: the fortress of Djijād in the left background. The large building on the right is ied [sic for 'die'] H̱amīdijjah, to the left of it is the printing press'. Photographer: al-Sayyid ʻAbd al-Ghaffār
Governor General Othman Pascha. This was likely constructed during the reign of the Ottoman Sultan Abdulhamid II
Arabic
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'File No. g/8 vol. I Papers about issue of Motor car driving licences'
an agent. and the Government of Bahrain.
ara,eng
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'File 35/86 III A. 74. Muscat Treaty'
Australia
ara,eng
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Three recipes for incense
Arabic
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'File 0436/51 Sharjah Air Agreement'
an agent. at Sharjah
ara,eng
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'Book No 253'
the Political Residency An office of the East India Company and
ara,eng
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'File 32/17 (4/5) Law and Order'
Major-General H E Ap Rhys Price
ara,eng
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'File 4/20 III Recoveries of amounts spent on behalf of R.A.F. Hinaidi.'
the Political Agency An office of the East India Company and
ara,eng
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'File 8/50 MUSCAT STATE AFFAIRS: SAIYID ALI BIN FAISAL'
Sayyid Ali bin Faisal [Sayyid ‘Alī bin Fayṣal Āl Bū Sa‘īd]
ara,eng
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'File 6/33 Saqr, Jabar, Rizq and Abdullah bin Abdur Rahman bin Abdul Wahab bin Salman Al Khalifah - Claim allowances from the State'
distant relatives of the ruler
ara,eng
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File [10/4] British relations with Ibn Sa`ud: activities of Faisal Al Duwish
Faisal al-Duwaish [Faysal al-Duwaysh]
ara,eng
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'File 9/3 Bahrain Reforms. Land Registration & Record of Rights'
Sheikh Hamad. A revised proposal from the Surveyor General of India to Daly
ara,eng
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al-Taqsīm wa-al-tashjīr Partition and afforestation Rāzī, Abū Bakr Muḥammad ibn Zakarīyā Rāzī, Abu Bakr Muhammad bin Zakariya
the physician and philosopher Abū Bakr Muḥammad ibn Zakarīyā al-Rāzī
Arabic
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[Risālah fī ʿilm al-mūsīqī] [Treatise on Musicology] Shirwānī, Fatḥ Allāh Sherwani, Fathallah
numerous tables and diagrams. In a versified preface the treatise is dedicated to the Ottoman Sultan Muḥammad ibn Murād
Arabic
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'File 3/5 Post Office Building and Postmaster's Quarters'
an agent. at Bahrain
ara,eng
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'File A/11 IV Slave cases Trucial Coast'
an agent. file 'File A/11 II Slave cases Trucial Coast A name used by Britain from the nineteenth century to 1971 to refer to the present-day United Arab Emirates. '
ara,eng
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Kitāb Jālīnūs fī ayyām al-BuḥrānThe book of Galen in the days of the two seas Galen (Jālīnūs) Galen
Ḥunayn ibn Isḥāq al-‘Ibādī
Arabic
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Chapters of Hippocrates Fuṣūl Abuqrāṭ
Ḥunayn ibn Isḥāq in the mid to late AD 9th/3rd AH century. The text is divided into 7 maqālahs : Maqālah 1
Arabic
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Letter No. 79: Commodore George Robinson, Commander of the Persian Gulf Squadron, HC SloopClive, Near Bushire, to Captain Arnold Burrowes Kemball, Resident in the Persian Gulf, Bushire
the latter to Abdullah ben Fyzul [Faisal bin Turki bin Abdullah Āl Sa‘ūd
ara,eng
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‘File 16/42 Visitors and guests of the Political Agent, Bahrain’
an agent. at Bahrain. Most of the correspondence is routine
ara,eng
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'File 29/30 vol. ii CIVIL REQUIREMENTS - MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS - EG. PEPPER, SPICES, TURMERIC, ETC'
Britain from the nineteenth century to 1971 to refer to the present-day United Arab Emirates. ports of Dubai and Sharjah for local consumption
ara,eng
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'Mount 'Arafah during the annual pilgrim gathering (seen from the south)'. Photographer: al-Sayyid ʻAbd al-Ghaffār
pilgrims’ tents. Most of the pilgrims visible here – male and female – are wearing the two piece garb
Arabic
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'File 1/3 IV Assistant Political Agent, Bahrain'
extension the Gulf
ara,eng
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Kitāb al-ʿamalīyāt al-jarrāḥīyah book of surgical operations anonymous
Muḥammad bin 'Alī al-Baqlī
Arabic
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Orders of Ali Pasha
Arabic
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‘File 8/1. Casualties in the al-Subah family of Kuwait’
the Al-Sabah [Āl Ṣabāḥ] ruling family of Kuwait. There are copies of letters and telegrams conveying messages of condolence to the Shaikh [Emir] of Kuwait [Shaikh Aḥmad al-Jābir Āl Ṣabāḥ] and other family members
ara,eng
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Refutation of an anonymous poem excusing disbelief in God Ibn Taymīyah, Aḥmad ibn ʻAbd al-Ḥalīm Ibn Taymiyyah, Ahmed bin Abdul Halim
the theologian Taqī al-Dīn Aḥmad ibn ʻAbd al-Ḥalīm ibn Taymīyah
Arabic
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'File 8/60 MUSCAT STATE AFFAIRS: MUSSANNAH AND YAL SA'AD.'
the tribe
ara,eng
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'File 2/5 III SHAIKH’S DATE GARDENS'
the Shaikh of Kuwait
ara,eng,tur
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al-Qarābādhīn ʿalá tartīb al-ʿilal Al-Qarābīn in the order of causes Najīb al-Dīn al-Samarqandī, Muḥammad ibn ʻAlī Najib al-Din al-Samarqandi, Muhammad ibn Ali
Ailment by Najīb al-Dīn Abū Ḥāmid Muḥammad ibn ‘Alī ibn ‘Umar al-Samarqandī
Arabic
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Anonymous fragment on medicine
body part
Arabic
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'Political Department 1854/55 Bushire Residency Persia and Persian Coast'
the Resident in the Persian Gulf The historical term used to describe the body of water between the Arabian Peninsula and Iran. regarding Persia and the Persian coast of the Gulf
eng,fas
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'Handbook of Arabia. Vol II. 1917'
Douglas Carruthers
ara,eng
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Anonymous treatise on the construction of the astrolabe and Kitāb al-mujmal fī aḥkām al-nujūm The Book of Al-Majmal fi Rulings of the Stars Kūshyār Koshyar
the scribe Ghiyāth al-Dīn Muḥammad ibn Ḥasan Bīk Munajjim
ara,fas
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al-Sharīfīyah fī sharḥ al-farāʾiḍ al-sirājīyah Al-Sharifiyyah in Explanation of the Sārājīyah Obligations Jurjānī, ‘Alī ibn Muḥammad Jurjani, Ali bin Muhammad
ʿAlī ibn Muḥammad ibn ʿAli al-Ḥusaynī al-Jurjānī
Arabic
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Risālat al-shifāʾ li-adwāʾ al-wabāʾ A message of healing for epidemic medicines Ṭāshkubrīʹzādah, Aḥmad ibn Muṣṭafá Tashkprizadeh, Ahmed bin Mustafa
the Ottoman polymath ʿIṣām al-Dīn Abū al-Khayr Aḥmad ibn Muṣliḥ al-Dīn Muṣṭafá Ṭāshkubrīʹzādah
ara,ota
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www.qdl.qa
Undetermined
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al-Qānūn al-waḍīḥ fī ‘ilm al-bayzarah The Clear Law in the Science of Bizarre Waṭwāṭ, Bat
encyclopedia of natural history Mabāhij al-fikar wa-manāhij al-‘ibar
Arabic
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'File 6/8 Foreign Interests: Persian Intrigue in Connection with Gwadar'
an agent. in Muscat
ara,eng
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‘Persian Gulf Relative to the conduct of Nakodah and crew of a Boat belonging to the port of Bushire-’
Moollah Mahomed [Mullā Muḥammad]
ara,eng,fas,guj
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'31/2 RECOGNITION OF H.E. Sk. HAMAD bin ISA KHALIFAH AS RULER OF BAHRAIN.'
the Government of India and the presentation to him of a kharita An important letter usually sent in an elaborate textile pouch
ara,eng
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'File 61/15 (D 40) Bin Saud: boundary settlement conference at Kuwait'
an agent. at Jeddah
ara,eng
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Mukhtaṣar nuzhat al-mushtāq fī ikhtirāq al-āfāq A summary of “The Picnic of Al-Mushtaq in Breaking Through Horizons” by Idrīsī Idrisi
Abū ʿAbd Allāh Muḥammad al-Idrīsī al-Qurṭubī
Arabic
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Imports into Bahrain: statistics and correspondence
the Political Agency An office of the East India Company and
ara,eng
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'File A/3 Miscellaneous correspondence with Bushire Residency'
an agent. in Bahrain
ara,eng
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‘13/1 Registration of British subjects etc.’
local British and British Indian subjects
ara,eng
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‘File 28/13 Black out and A.R.P. [Air Raid Precaution] measures in Bahrain’
the Political Agency An office of the East India Company and
ara,eng
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Compendium of philosophical and scientific texts by and about Avicenna
(ابن سينا)
and about Abū ʻAlī al-Ḥusayn ibn ʻAbd Allāh
ara,fas
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Uṣūl al-tarākīb The origins of compositions Najīb al-Dīn al-Samarqandī, Muḥammad ibn ʿAlī Najib al-Din al-Samarqandi, Muhammad ibn Ali
Najīb al-Dīn Abū Ḥāmid Muḥammad ibn ‘Alī ibn ‘Umar al-Samarqandī
Arabic
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Miftāḥ al-ḥisāb Miftāḥ al-ḥisāb Miftāḥ al-ḥisāb Kāshī, Jamshīd ibn Masʿūd Kāshi, Jamshīd ibn Masʿūd
Ghiyāth al-Dīn Jamshīd ibn Masʿūd ibn Maḥmūd al-Kāshī
Arabic
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Mas’alah fī ikhtilāf manẓar al-qamr A question about the difference in the appearance of the moon Alhazen Ibn al-Haytham
Abū ‘Alī al-Ḥasan ibn al-Ḥasan ibn al-Haytham
Arabic
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'File 4/12 Shaikh and Subah [al-Sabah] Family --- Miscellaneous'
Iraqi forces during a hunting trip in the south of Iraq
ara,eng
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‘Establishment. No. I/12 Appointments and Changes in the Political Residents & Agents in the Persian Gulf, and Secretaries, Bushire, & of the Govt. of India. and Others.’
the Political Resident A senior ranking political representative
ara,eng
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'File 9/6 Reforms in Bahrain Court; formation of second court; preparation of civil and criminal codes'
the Sunni-dominated judicial system
ara,eng
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File 2794/1921 Pt 15 'Oil. Koweit Neutral Zone. On concessions in.'
year. This is placed at the back of the correspondence.
ara,eng
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Notes and Correspondence Regarding Persia
George Nathaniel Curzon on matters relating to Persia. Most of the notes are written on various kinds of headed paper
eng,fas
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al-Qānūn fī al-ṭibb The Law in Medicine Avicenna Avicenna
Abū ‘Alī al-Ḥusayn ibn ‘Abd Allāh
Arabic
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Talkhīṣ tafsīr Jālīnūs li-fuṣūl Abuqrāṭ Summary of Galen’s interpretation of the chapters of Hippocrates Nīlī, Saʿīd ibn ʿAbd al-ʿAzīz Nili, Saʿid ibn Abd al-Azīz
Abū Sahl Sa‘īd ibn ‘Abd al-‘Azīz al-Nīlī
Arabic
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'File 9/1 II Visits of His Majesty's Ships to Muscat'
this correspondence include the nature of visits
ara,eng
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Taḥṣīl al-ṣiḥḥah bi-al-asbāb al-sittah Attaining health through the six causes
means of the six non-natural causes of health and disease by Abū al-Faḍl Ḥubaysh ibn Ibrāhīm ibn Muḥammad al-Tiflīsī
Arabic
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'File No. G/7 I `Id Calls, letters and Notices.'
an agent.
ara,eng
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'File A/15 Jurisdiction over Hasawis'
specific incidents occurring in 1914 and 1917 in which Shaikh ‘Īsá bin ‘Alī Āl Khalīfah
ara,eng