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Qawl fī aḍwā’ al-kawākib Quote in the light of al-kawākib Alhazen ibn al-Haytham
Abū ‘Alī al-Ḥasan ibn al-Ḥasan ibn al-Haytham
Arabic
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Kitāb al-adwār fī ʿilm al-mūsīqī The Book of Roles in the Science of Music al-Urmawī, ʿAbd al-Muʾmin ibn Yūsuf Armawi, Abd al-Mu’min ibn Yusuf
Ṣafī al-Dīn ‘Abd al-Mu’min ibn Yūsuf ibn Fākhir al-Urmawī
Arabic
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'File 2/2 V Kuwait-Iraq Smuggling.'
land and by sea that had occurred between the two states since April 1933. The Shaikh of Kuwait raised his complaints to the Political Agent A mid-ranking political representative
ara,eng
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Sharḥ Masāʾil fī al-ṭibb Explanation of Issues in Medicine 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
Arabic
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'Confdl. 86/47 Umm-al-Qawain Oil'
Britain from the nineteenth century to 1971 to refer to the present-day United Arab Emirates. ) Limited to the Political Resident A senior ranking political representative
ara,eng
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Kitāb fīhī ajzā’ min Minhāj al-ṭibb A book containing parts of the medical curriculum
Abū ‘Alī Yahyá ibn ‘Ísá
Arabic
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'File No: E.7. Qatar & Anglo-Turkish Convention of 1913'
Yūsuf bin Aḥmad Kanoo. These correspondence and reports concern Britain's relations with the Āl Thānī family in the context of the Anglo-Ottoman Convention of 1913 and the nature of a possible treaty with Qatar
ara,eng
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'File 5/193 I (B 23) Slavery in the Gulf'
six incumbents during the time frame covered)
ara,eng,fas
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'File 17/25 Stationery purchased from firms'
an agent.
eng,fas
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Baḥr al-jawāhirThe Sea of Jewels al-Harawī, Muḥammad ibn Yūsuf Al-Harawi, Muhammad ibn Yusuf
Abū ‘Alī al-Ḥusayn ibn ‘Abd Allāh
ara,fas
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Risālah fī barkār al-dawā’ir al-‘iẓām A message on the barkār of bone circles Alhazen Ibn al-Haytham
Abū ‘Alī al-Ḥasan ibn al-Ḥasan ibn al-Haytham
Arabic
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'File 8/14 I MUSCAT FINANCE, REVENUE, TAXES. BUDGETS.'
the Government of Muscat's Director of Revenues and forwarded to the Political Resident A senior ranking political representative
ara,eng
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'File 19/176 III (C 51) Bahrain Finances'
Shaikh Hamad bin Isa Al Khalifa's adviser
ara,eng
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al-Muʿādalāt equations
Sharaf al-Dīn al-Muẓaffar ibn Muḥammad al-Ṭūsī
Arabic
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'File XX/4 Naval and Military Intelligence Queries.'
the Political Agent A mid-ranking political representative
ara,eng
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‘21/8 PRESENTATION OF GIFTS FOR SALEH AL MANAH REPRESENTATIVE OF SHAIKH OF QATAR’
the Political Agent A mid-ranking political representative
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Equestrian Science and Horse Politics
by Badr al-Dīn Baktūt al-Rammāḥ al-Khāzindārī al-Ẓāhirī
Arabic
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'File 4/13 III Kuwait Education'
Wakelin are contained in the file. Topics discussed include the hiring of teachers from Egypt
ara,eng,fra
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'File 73/7 II (D 22) Status of Koweit [Kuwait] - Baghdad railway, Anglo Turkish negotiations'
the Baghdad Railway and particularly the extension to Basra. Correspondents include: Percy Cox
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‘Miscellaneous 16/15 Correspondence with and from the Director of Customs, Bahrain’
many of Bahrain’s merchants
ara,deu,eng
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'File 4/52 Sharjah Agency Dubai Hospital A/C.'
the British Agency An office of the East India Company and
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‘File 16/37A-I Anti-Locust Measures’
representatives of the Middle East Anti-Locust Unit
ara,eng
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'File 5/15 Exemption of customs and Other Duties on Naval Stores for Naval Base - Jufair'
personnel at the Jufair naval base. There is also correspondence regarding extending similar privileges to the Royal Air Force and British Overseas Airways Corporation.
ara,eng
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'File 31/4 (1 A/52) DEATH OF HIS HIGHNESS SHAIKH SIR HAMAD BIN 'ISA AL KHALIFAH, K.C.I.E., C.S.I., AND THE SUCCESSION OF THE NEW RULER.'
the common agreement of the al Khalifah family
ara,eng
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Kitāb al-ṭabīkh The Book of Cooking Ibn al-Karīm, Muḥammad ibn al-Ḥasan Ibn al-Karim, Muhammad ibn al-Hasan
Muḥammad ibn al-Ḥasan ibn al-Karīm
Arabic
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Tawḍīḥ al-Tadhkirah al-Nāṣirīyah Clarification of the Nasiriyah Ticket Nīsābūrī, al-Ḥasan ibn Muḥammad Nisaburi, Al-Hasan bin Muhammad
al-Ḥasan ibn Muḥammad ibn al-Ḥusayn Niẓām al-Dīn al-Aʿraj al-Nīsābūrī
Arabic
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purchased
Abdur Rahman Khan
eng,fas
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‘File B/10.II (General) MISCELLANEOUS CLAIMS AND COMPLAINTS ON THE TRUCIAL COAST OF OMAN. (General File)’
subjects of the Trucial Coast A name used by Britain from the nineteenth century to 1971 to refer to the present-day United Arab Emirates. Shaikhs
ara,eng
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'South Arabia, Anglo-Turkish Boundary: Sheet No. 2'
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.
ara,eng
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‘File 7/2 V Landing grounds and seaplane anchorages’
the Royal Air Force
ara,eng
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Risālah fī al-adwiyah al-musahhilah A treatise on laxatives Najīb al-Dīn al-Samarqandī, Muḥammad ibn ʻAlī 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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'File 3/4 II Beacons and buoys'
ara,eng
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'File 53/71 (D 90) Kuwait - Claims Against Nejd'
the ruler of Kuwait
ara,eng
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'File 3/13 Visit of HMS Ormonde to Bahrain'
Charles Dalrymple Belgrave
ara,eng
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[Risālah fī khubr taʾlīf al-alḥān] [A treatise on the news of composing melodies] Kindī, Yaʻqūb ibn Isḥāq Kindi, Yaqub ibn Ishaq
Ya‘qūb ibn Isḥāq al-Kindī
Arabic
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'File 1/2 II Pensionable Clerical Establishment, and their Leave'
an agent.
ara,eng
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'File 26/133 (F 78) Khor Musa'
Sheikh Khazal in 1912
ara,eng
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'File 53/83 III (D 113) Kuwait-Iraq Smuggling'
representatives of the Foreign Office and the 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. and by Archibald Clark Kerr
ara,eng
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Risālah dar ʿilm-i rīyāz̤īyāt (A treatise on mathematics) Jūzjānī, ʻAbd al-Wāḥid Jawzjani, Abdul Wahid
his student Abū ʿUbayd ʿAbd al-Wāḥid ibn Muḥammad al-Jūzjānī
Persian
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'File 39/23 II Negotiations for seabed oil in Bahrain, Trucial Coast and Qatar'
an agent. at Sharjah and local rulers regarding their jurisdiction over the seabed adjacent to their coastline
ara,eng
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File 37/1905 Pt 5 'Aden Delimitation'
year. This divider is placed at the front of the volume.
ara,eng,fra
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Overview Map of Arabia. Based on C. Ritter's Geography Book III, West Asia, Parts XII−XIII
the German geographer Carl Georg Ritter
ara,deu
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‘File 16/9 II Id Calls and letters of greetings etc’
the Bahrain Political Agent A mid-ranking political representative
ara,eng
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Essential Pages in the Evolution of Learning
the Lebanese writer The lowest of the four classes into which East India Company civil servants were divided. A Writer’s duties originally consisted mostly of copying documents and book-keeping. and intellectual Nawfal al-Tarabulsi
Arabic
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'File 42/1 Adviser to the Government of Bahrain'
an agent. in Bahrain and Shaikh Ḥamad bin ‘Īsá Āl Khalīfah regarding Belgrave's contract and pay.
ara,eng
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'Glossary of Persian military terms, with Appendix I, containing ranks of the Persian Army; Appendix II, containing musketry terms'
the Newul Kishore Press. The terms are listed in alphabetical order in English and the Persian translation appears next to each term. There are two appendices at the end of the volume: the first contains a list of ranks in the Persian army
eng,fas
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'File 10/3 VI Qatar Oil Concession'
the 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. on 26 September 1934
ara,eng
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Ḥaqāʾiq asrār al-ṭibb Facts Secrets of Medicine Sijzī, Masʿūd ibn Muḥammad Sijzī, Masoud bin Muhammad
Masʿūd ibn Muḥammad al-Sijzī
Arabic
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Galen (Jālīnūs)
Ḥunayn ibn Isḥāq al-‘Ibādī
Arabic
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[al-Mubāḥathāt Discussions] Avicenna Ibn Sina
Abū al-Ḥasan Bahmanyār ibn al-Marzubān
Arabic
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File 2182/1913 Pt 11-12 'PERSIAN GULF AND ARABIA NEJD-HEJAZ AFFAIRS 1920'
British officials regarding the dispute
ara,eng
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Kitāb Jāmiʻ li-ʻilm aḥkām al-masāʼil
a note dated 1307/1889-90 by Māhir
Arabic
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‘File XXXVIII/4 BOMBING of SOUTH. OCT:- NOV: 1928.'
the Council of Ministers
ara,eng
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‘File 28/17-B Action to be taken in the event of an entry into the war by Japan’
the prospect of war with Japan
ara,eng
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Coll 28/42 ‘Persia. Motor-car Registration in East Persia. Issue of Driving Licenses and Visas to British & Persian subjects; Indian lorry drivers in Persia.’
the Governments of Persia [Iran] and India. The correspondence includes: reports of social unrest in the border region between Persia and British Baluchistan from 1934 to 1936
eng,fas,fra
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'File 33/9 [17/2] TELEPHONIC COMMUNICATION BETWEEN MUHARRAQ & MANAMA.'
the Government of Bahrain
ara,eng
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'File 23/3 III Anti-locust campaign'
a number of agencies that were largely coordinated from the Political Agency An office of the East India Company and
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''Handbook of Mesopotamia. Vol. I. 1916''
ara,eng,fas,hye,kur,syr,tur
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Excerpt on dysmenorrhoea from Kitāb al-dhakhīrah (Book of Ammunition)
the grandson of Muḥammad Amīn Bek ibn Ibrāhīm Bek ibn Yūnus Afandī ibn Yāsīn Afandī al-Muftī ibn Maḥmūd Afandī
Arabic
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'Pocket No. 17: Enclosure to Part III of Volume I of the Persian Gulf Gazetteer: Geneaological Table of the Qādiriyah (Saiyid) Family of the Naqibs of Baghdād in Turkish ’Iraq'
the British officials to describe the territory roughly corresponding to
ara,eng
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'File 2/1 I PROPAGANDA (Absorption of Kuwait by Iraq)'
Iraq. A large amount of the correspondence is in the form of newspaper articles and extracts
ara,eng
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'File 2/10 III II- B/1- Vol. II. II. AVIATION. B. ROYAL AIR FORCE. (1) Reconnaissance of Basrah, Aden, Muscat, Masirah, Murbat, Sauqrah Bay etc. Air Route'
an agent. and Shaikh Said bin Sultan Al-Maj‘ali for rent and care of the landing grounds at Shuwaimiya and Khor Gharum/Gharim. It also includes an extract of a report of an expedition to Shuwaimiya by the commanding officer
ara,eng
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‘File 28/71 Navicert = routine correspondence’
an agent. Gray
ara,eng
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'File 0602 Imperial Bank of Iran - Banking Agreement & Bank Reports, Vol. 1'
an agent. at Sharjah
ara,eng
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'File 1/5 Menial staff: Pay and Allowances'
an agent.
ara,eng
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www.qdl.qa
Undetermined
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Vol 19 Letters inward
British authorities) in the Persian Gulf The historical term used to describe the body of water between the Arabian Peninsula and Iran.
ara,eng
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Mūsīqī-yi ḥikmat-i ʿAlāʾī The Music of Alāʿī Avicenna Ibn Sina
Abū ʿAlī al-Ḥusayn ibn ʿAbd Allāh
Persian
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'Book No 28 From November 1822 to November 1823'
ara,eng,fas
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'File 53/61 I (D 108) Kuwait - Foreigners In'
Prideaux that outlines the rationale behind the decision
ara,eng
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'File 61/14 I (D 45) Relations between Nejd and 'Iraq'
Ibn Sa'ud. Most of the correspondence is between the Political Residency An office of the East India Company and
ara,eng
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Al-Mughnī fī tadbīr al-amrāḍ wa-maʿrifat al-ʿilal wa-al-aʿrāḍ Al-Mughnī in the management of diseases and knowledge of illnesses and symptoms Saʿīd ibn Hibat Allāh ibn al-Ḥusayn Saeed bin Hibatullah bin Al-Hussein
Abū al-Ḥasan Sa‘īd ibn Hibat Allāh ibn al-Ḥusayn
ara,syr
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'File 1/6 II Officers of the IPS: Postings and Transfers, Honourable the Resident etc.'
extension the Gulf
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Risālah dar ‘ilm-i hay’ah A treatise on the knowledge of the Qūshjī body, ‘Alī ibn Muḥammad Qūshjī, Ali bin Muhammad
Abū al-Qāsim ‘Alā’ al-Dīn ‘Alī ibn Muḥammad al-Qūshjī
Persian
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'File 2/32 I II. AVIATION. C. FOREIGN AVIATION. (I) Use Of Gwadur Landing Ground by K.L.M and Air France.’
the Sultan of Muscat and Oman regarding the landing of French and Dutch aeroplanes at Gwadur
ara,eng,fra,nld
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The Grand Monuments of the Ancients in the Nile Valley
Ahmad Najib
Arabic
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'File 4/25 British Advisers to Kuwait (Financial, Customs and Police)'
English translations). As well as correspondence
ara,eng
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Aden Affairs
the followers of ‘the fanatic’ Syud Ismaiel [Sayyid Ismā‘īl
ara,eng
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Three treatises on military science
second. A note in the flyleaf
Arabic
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Istikhrāj mā bayna al-markaz min al-Majisṭī al-shāhī Extract between the center of the Shahi Almagest Abū Naṣr ibn ‘Irāq Abu Nasr ibn Iraq
Abu Nasr Mansoor ibn ‘Ali ibn ‘Iraq
Arabic
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Sharḥ kullīyāt al-qānūn Explanation of the faculties of law Āmulī, Muḥammad ibn Maḥmūd Amoli, Muhammad ibn Mahmoud
Shams al-Dīn Muḥammad ibn Maḥmūd al-Āmulī
Arabic
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Fī raf‘ al-ashyā’ al-thaqīlah in lifting heavy objects Hero of Alexandria Eren Al-Iskandarani
the mathematician and engineer Hero of Alexandria
Arabic
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Exposition of Realities Explaining “Treasury of Intricacies”
ʻUthman ibn ʻAli al-Zaylaʻi
Arabic
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'File 9/1 A I Visits of H. E. The Naval Commander-in-Chief to Muscat & Correspondence'
the Commander-in-Chief
ara,eng
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'File 4/32 Presents for His Highness. Radio Sets, Launches etc'
the Kuwait Oil Company.
ara,eng