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Chart of the Gulf of Persia. Constructed from the Trigonometrical Surveys Made by Order of The Hon.ble the Court of Directors of the United English East India Company; by George Barnes Brucks, Commander H.C. Marine
James Horsburgh and engraved by Richard Bateman. The western sheet only
ara,eng
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Demonstration of the Truth
Indian scholar Rahmatullah al-Dihlawi
ara,ota
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Sharḥ kullīyāt al-qānūn Explanation of the Faculties of Law Quṭb al-Dīn al-Shīrāzī, Maḥmūd ibn Masʿūd Qutb al-Din al-Shirazi, Mahmoud ibn Masoud
Quṭb al-Dīn Maḥmūd ibn Mas‘ūd al-Shīrāzī
Arabic
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'15/3 ABU DHABI'
the Residency An office of the East India Company and
ara,eng
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Sharḥ al-mulakhkhaṣ fī ‘ilm al-hayʾah Sharḥ al-mulakhkhaṣ fī ‘ilm al-hayʾah Qāḍīʹzādah, Mūsá ibn Muḥammad Qazizadeh, Musa ibn Muhammad
Ṣalāḥ al-Dīn Mūsá ibn Muḥammad ibn Maḥmūd
Arabic
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‘File XXXVIII/5 VOL I. SUR Nov: 1928- Feb: 1931’
force
ara,eng,guj
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A map of pearl banks in Persian Gulf
Arabic numerals
Arabic
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Brief Principles of the Arabic Language
Ḍiyāʾ al-Dīn Abū Muḥammad al-Khazraj̲ī
ara,lat
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Coll 35/12 'Kuwait: post and telegraph office; participation of Iraq in Empire Air Mail Scheme'
the Iraq Government
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Muḥammad al-Farghānī’s Elements of Chronology and Astronomy
al-Mutawakkil with the construction of the nilometer in Cairo. In that case
ara,lat
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Coll 6/67(1) 'Boundaries of South-Eastern Arabia and Qatar.'
Ibn Saud as being binding upon his government. The volume features the following principal correspondents: His Majesty's Minister at Jedda
ara,eng
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Two treatises on gnomonics Ibn al-Raqqām, Muḥammad ibn Ibrāhīm Ibn al-Raqqām, Muhammad ibn Ibrahim
the Andalusian scholar Abū ʿAbd Allāh Muḥammad ibn Ibrāhīm ibn ʿAlī ibn Aḥmad ibn Yūsuf al-Mursī al-Andalusī al-Tūnisī al-Awsī ibn al-Raqqām
Arabic
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'File A/11 I Slave cases Trucial Coast'
the Residency An office of the East India Company and
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'Muscat finances'
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al-Risālah al-musammāh bi-al-fayḍ al-ilāhī The message called the divine outpouring Avicenna Ibn Sina
Abū ʿAlī al-Ḥusayn ibn ʿAbd Allāh
Arabic
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'Sketch of the Course of the Shat Ul 'Arab from the Entrance to Mahomerah'
H Essoobyee
eng,fas
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'File 18/6 II Trucial Coast Order in Council'
Britain from the nineteenth century to 1971 to refer to the present-day United Arab Emirates. Order in Council A regulation issued by the sovereign of the United Kingdom on the advice of the Privy Council.
ara,eng
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Ibn al-Majdī, Aḥmad ibn Rajab Ibn al-Majdi, Ahmad ibn Rajab
Shihāb al-Dīn Abū al-‘Abbās Aḥmad ibn Rajab ibn Ṭaybūghā al-Majdī al-Shāfi‘ī
Arabic
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Four treatises on astronomy and calendrics
the scribe Dadah ibn Muṣṭafá
ara,fas,ota,tur
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'File 21/32 Compensation paid by B.O.A.C [British Overseas Airways Corporation] to its employees'
the son of the deceased
ara,eng
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'File A/4 Rules governing manumission of slaves'
staff at the Bahrain Political Agency An office of the East India Company and
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‘File 28/46-I Miscellaneous war requirements’
the Superintendent at the Mathematical Instrument Office in Calcutta [Kolkata]
ara,eng
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'File 6/1 Foreign Interests: American Mission at Muscat'
an agent. & Consulate in Muscat but the file also contains a limited amount of correspondence from members of the American Mission
ara,eng
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Risālah-i yanbūʿ Imād al-Dīn Shīrāzī, Maḥmud ibn Masʿūd
ʽImad al-Din Maḥmud ibn Masʿūd Shirāzī
Persian
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'File 17/29 DISPOSAL OF CERTAIN ELECTRIC GENERATING EQUIPMENT ORIGINALLY ORDERED FOR INSTALLATION IN CONSULATES AT BANDAR ABBAS AND BUSHIRE'
the Political Residency An office of the East India Company and
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Risālah al-Marmūzah lil-shaykh al-raʼīs qaddasa sirrah The encoded message of the Sheikh the President, may his soul be sanctified by Avicenna Ibn Sina
Abū 'Alī al-Ḥusayn ibn ʻAbd Allāh
Arabic
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'File 1/15 Major Head:- Political. Subject:- DOWASIR tribe & their removal from Bahrain'
the Dowasir against Baharnah
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'File 2/15 British Consulate Muscat Masirah and Salalah landing grounds'
an agent.
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'File XXIX/6 THE IMAM’S RISING 1913-1920 SIDAB DITACHMENT, SHOOTING OF MUBARAK, 1915’
mistake by a British officer. British officials raised concerns about the possible consequences of the incident.
ara,eng
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al-Juz’ al-‘āshir min kitāb al-ḥāwī fī al-ṭibb Part
Abū Bakr Muḥammad ibn Zakarīyā al-Rāzī
Arabic
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'14/115 IV B. 7. Abu Musa'
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Risālah-'i kanz al-tuḥaf dar mūsīqī Kanz al-Tahf's treatise on music
the scribe Muḥammad Amīn Akbarābādī
Persian
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Kitāb al-Mughnī fī al-adwiyah al-mufradah Al-Mughni’s Book on Individual Medicines Ibn al-Bayṭār, ʻAbd Allāh ibn Aḥmad Ibn al-Bitar, Abdullah ibn Ahmad
the Andalusian botanist Ḍiyā’ al-Dīn Abū Muḥammad ʻAbd Allāh ibn Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad al-Mālaqī
Arabic
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'File 1/29 I Head Munshi, Bahrain'
an agent.
ara,eng
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'File 1/A/37 Shaikh of Ras Al Khaimah'
the Qāsimī tribe from Ras al Khaima. . The correspondence in the file is between British officials from the Political Residency An office of the East India Company and
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'File 11/1 Muscat Administration Reports and related correspondence'
an agent. and of the Muscat Infantry for the years 1942-43 to 1945-46 and contains copies of all the reports. The volume features the following principal correspondents: the Political Agent A mid-ranking political representative
ara,eng
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'File 0629 Correspondence regarding the land beneath the sea outside territorial waters'
an agent. at Sharjah
ara,eng
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'File 53/11 XII (D 124) Shaikh of Kuwait's Date Gardens in Iraq'
the ruler of Kuwait. The correspondence discusses changes in legislation proposed by the Government of Iraq regarding the collection of land rent and land produce duties
ara,eng
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'File 21/4 Aerodrome at Bahrein [Bahrain] and Royal Air Force Landing Ground'
an agent. at Bahrain
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File 2/5 X 'SHAIKH'S DATE GARDENS'
the heirs of the former owners of the Al Faddaghiyeh
ara,eng
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'File 1/43 J Personal file of G N Jackson Esq., MBE'
Britain from the nineteenth century to 1971 to refer to the present-day United Arab Emirates. . Based at Sharjah
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'File 2/4 I TAXATION OF SHAIKH’S DATE GARDENS.'
the Shaikh of Kuwait
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al-Kitāb al-Manṣūrī Al-Mansuri Book Rāzī, Abū Bakr Muḥammad ibn Zakarīyā Rāzī, Abu Bakr Muhammad ibn Zakariya
the physician Salmān al-Mūsawī
Arabic
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'File 4/3 I Purchase of Saluting Gun, Aircraft, etc, by the Shaikh of Kuwait'
Iraq-based Royal Air Force
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'Book 181 - 1852'
Captain Arnold Kemball. The volume includes: Correspondence with the British Envoy at the Court of Persia
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Kitāb al-maqāyīs Book of Measures Christophorus Clavius Clavius of Frankish
Christopher Clavius of Bamberg
Arabic
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'File 61/14 XII (D 59) Relations Between Nejd and Iraq'
an agent. in Bahrain
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Sharḥ lil-adwār Explanation of the roles
Ṣafī al-Dīn ʿAbd al-Muʾmin ibn Yūsuf al-Urmawī
Arabic
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'File 61/6 vol.4 (D 34) Bin Saud and Akwan Movement'
Ahmad bin Abdullah al-Thanaiyan
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al-Mukhtār fī al-ṭibb Al-Mukhtar in Medicine Ibn Hubal, ʻAlī ibn Aḥmad Ibn Hubal, Ali bin Ahmad
Muhadhdhib al-Dīn Abū al-Ḥasan ‘Alī ibn Aḥmad ibn ‘Alī ibn Hubal al-Baghdādī
Arabic
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'File 36/16 III Restrictions on shipment of goods from Bahrain'
an agent. in Bahrain by traders resident in the country
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‘Persian Gulf. Abolition of the Slave Trade in the Principal ports of-’
the Government of Bombay From c. 1668-1858
ara,eng,fas,guj,mar
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'File XXII/2 Houses and Landed Property Notifications ordering registration of transfers of land and household property. 1902-1910.'
the British Consulate and the Political Agency An office of the East India Company and
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'File 36/38 Congratulatory Messages re. Allies' Successes in War'
an agent. in Bahrain from individuals
ara,eng
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Literary Essays by Classical Arab Authors
Melanges de l’Université Saint-Joseph and Proche-Orient Chrétien from the same publishers. The work presented here
Arabic
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'File 5/23 Visits of U.S. Naval Vessels to the Persian Gulf'
an agent. and Residency An office of the East India Company and
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'File 14/5 III Correspondence regarding postal arrangements at Sharjah and Dubai'
Britain from the nineteenth century to 1971 to refer to the present-day United Arab Emirates.
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'File 17/2 Horticulture'
an agent. in Muscat. Most of the correspondence in the volume is between officials of the Political Agency An office of the East India Company and
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'Muscat-Omani relations'
Ronald Evelyn Wingate
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al-Takmilah fī sharḥ al-tadhkirah The continuation in explaining the ticket Khafrī, Muḥammad ibn Aḥmad Khafrī, Muhammad bin Ahmad
Shams al-Dīn Muḥammad ibn Aḥmad al-Khafrī
Arabic
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'Political Affairs of Muscat and Oman'
the head of the Al-Sa'ad
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File 13/4 II 'American Mission in Arabia (Includes Acquisition of Land)'
an agent.
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'File 21/7 Arms and Ammunition for the Shaikh of Qatar: Machine Guns for Shaikh of Qatar'
an agent. in Bahrain
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'South Arabia, Anglo-Turkish Boundary: Sheet No. 3'
the Anglo-Turkish Boundary Commission under Colonel R A Wahab and Colonel Mustapha Remzi Bey. The map has all place names listed in English and Arabic.
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'File E9. Philby's Mission to Bin Sa'ud'
and Robert Edward John Hamilton's 1917/1918 mission to 'Abd al-'Aziz ibn 'Abd al-Raḥman ibn Fayṣal Āl Sa‘ūd
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Sharḥ risālat Ḥayy ibn Yaqẓān Explanation of the message of Hayy ibn Yaqzan Ibn Zaylah Ibn Zaylah
Abū Manṣūr al-Ḥusayn ibn Ṭāhir ibn Zaylah
Arabic
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'File A/2 III Correspondence regarding slaves and their manumission certificates'
or sent from the Political Agency An office of the East India Company and
ara,eng
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'File 1/18 I Major Head:- Political. Subject:- Sultan of Najd's Relations with Iraq.'
Najdi tribesmen into Iraq
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Risālah-'i masīḥī dar kayfīyat va haqīqat-i samāʿ va ibāḥatān A Christian message on the quality and reality of hearing and its permissibility Ibn ʿAbd al-Raḥmān, ʿAbd al-Jalīl Abd al-Rahman, Abd al-Jalil Ibn
Sufis. It was entitled Masīḥī in honour of the physician and poet Hakīm Sadrā ibn Hakīm Fakhr al-Dīn Shīrazī
Persian
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‘File 28/1 V Visits to Bahrain of military officials (Brigadier Hughes & Party)’
senior military officials to Bahrain
ara,eng
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‘No. I/34. Launch establishment’
an agent. motor launch. The bulk of the file’s correspondence concerns Cyril Bayer
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Muhadhdhab al-Dīn al-Dakhwār, ʻAbd al-Raḥīm ibn ʻAlī Muhadhdhab al-Dīn al-Dakhwār, Abd al-Rahim ibn Ali Sharḥ Kitāb Taqdimat al-maʿrifah li-Abuqrāṭ Explanation of the book The Introduction to Knowledge by Hippocrates
the physician and translator Abū Zayd Ḥunayn ibn Isḥāq al-‘Ibādī
Arabic
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Refinement of Character
the famous Iranian polymath Ibn Miskawayh
Arabic
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'File 61/15 II (D 44) Kuwait Conference'
an agent. at Jeddah
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Kitāb al-tafhīm li-awā’īl ṣinā‘at al-tanjīm The Book of Understanding for the Early Astrology Industry Bīrūnī, Muḥammad ibn Aḥmad Biruni, Muhammad ibn Ahmad
Abū al-Rayḥān Muḥammad ibn Aḥmad al-Bīrūnī
Arabic
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'File 1/A/24 II BAHRAIN NATIONALITY AND PROPERTY LAW.'
the Government of Iran against the Bahrain property and nationality laws
ara,eng
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'FILE-B/8 CORRESPONDENCE REGARDING CLAIMS AGAINST MEMBERS OF AL KHALIFAH'
locals of different ethnic and religious backgrounds in Bahrain to the Political Agency An office of the East India Company and
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Sharḥ sharḥ al-Majisṭī Explanation of the Commentary on Almagest Nīsāpūrī, al-Ḥasan ibn Muḥammad Nisaburi, Al-Hasan ibn Muhammad
al-Ḥasan ibn Muḥammad ibn al-Ḥusayn Niẓām al-Dīn al-Aʿraj al-Nīsābūrī
Arabic
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File 600/1905 Pt 4-6 'Aden Hinterland Affairs'
the delineation of the border with Ottoman Turkish territory and the need to secure support from the tribes of this region.
ara,eng