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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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'File 3/1 I Seizure or Detention of Kuwait sailing craft by Persians'
the Persian authorities. The file consists mostly of correspondence between the Political Agent A mid-ranking political representative
ara,eng
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'File 53/83 IV (D 123) Kuwait-Iraq Smuggling'
Iraqi Customs and Police Forces
ara,eng
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Lamp of Kings
Muḥammad ibn al-Walīd al-Ṭurṭūshī
Arabic
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‘File 41/3 Theft of ammunition from Jida store’
the Government of Bahrain
ara,eng
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PLAN SHOWING LANDS ADJACENT TO FAO DEPOT.
the Basra Port Directorate
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‘File 15/15 Rules & Regulations Nationality Laws of Iraq & Saudi Arabia’
persons already of age
ara,eng
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www.qdl.qa
Undetermined
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Register of legal documents
an agent.
ara,eng
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Kitāb al-ṣafwah fī waṣf al-mamlakah al-Miṣrīyah The Book of the Elite in the Description of the Egyptian Kingdom Muḥammad al-Ṣūfī Muhammad al-Sufi
the Egyptian mathematician and astronomer Shams al-Dīn Muḥammad ibn Abī al-Fatḥ ibn ‘Īsá ibn Aḥmad al-Ṣūfī al-Miṣrī
Arabic
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Coll 30/110(2) 'Oil: Oil concessions on the Trucial Coast. Negotiations with Sheikhs. Ras-al-Khaimah Agreement. Abu Dhabi.'
Britain from the nineteenth century to 1971 to refer to the present-day United Arab Emirates. over oil concession agreements. Petroleum Concessions Limited was the company approved by the British Government to seek oil concessions in the area
ara,eng
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'File 9/20 Naval & Shipping: Infringement of Muscat Territorial Waters by Persian Navy'
a Persian vessel. The papers cover the report of the incident
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'File 18/1 II Repairs to Buildings Ordinary Repairs'
an agent. building
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'File 20/4 Ceremonials & Honours. Receptions, entertainments, invitations and presents etc.'
an agent. in Bahrain. These parties were held for various occasions including the departure of the Political Agent A mid-ranking political representative
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'File [11/4] Salute by H.H. the Sultan to Political Officers when leaving and returning to Muscat'
an agent. in Muscat
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al-Asbāb wa-al-ʿalāmāt Causes and signs Najib 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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'Muscat, Sultan's visit to Europe, 1928'
his Wazir Minister.
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Kitāb al-najāh The Book of Salvation Avicenna Ibn Sina
Abū 'Alī al-Ḥusayn ibn ʻAbd Allāh
Arabic
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'14/86 ATTACK ON AJMAN AND MURDER OF THE CHIEF AND SUCCESSION ETC.'
Britain from the nineteenth century to 1971 to refer to the present-day United Arab Emirates. . The main correspondents are the Residency An office of the East India Company and
ara,eng
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'File 10/1 XIV Bahrain Oil Concession'
Texas Corporation and Standard Oil Company of California of the share control of BAPCO. The volume includes: abstracts of accounts of oil measured during 1936 and 'Statement on Royalty' for 1936
ara,eng
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Collections of Galen’s book on natural forces according to the opinion of the Alexandrians
Hunayn ibn Ishaq
Arabic
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al-Mukhtār fī al-ṭibb Al-Mukhtar in Medicine Ibn Hubal, ʻAlī ibn Aḥmad Ibn Hubal, Ali bin Ahmad
Muhadhdhab al-Dīn Abū al-Ḥasan ʿAlī ibn Aḥmad ibn ʿAlī ibn Hubal al-Baghdādī
Arabic
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‘File 28/1 C Ammunition for Bahrain Government’
the Government of India. The principal correspondents in the file are the Political Agent A mid-ranking political representative
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'File 22/23 Recognition of FUJAIRAH as Independent State'
Britain from the nineteenth century to 1971 to refer to the present-day United Arab Emirates. Shaikhdom of Fujairah
ara,eng
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‘X. PASSPORTS AND PROTECTION. (2) Impounding of British passports by local Customs.’
Ralph Ponsonby Watts
ara,eng
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'File E5. Murder of Sheikh Selman bin Diaij and 25 others on the 3rd December 1900 at Deraya by the Behaih'
the Āl Khalīfah family
ara,eng
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Ḥayāt al-ḥayawān al-wusṭá The Book of Central Animal Life Damīrī, Muḥammad ibn Mūsá Damīri, Muhammad ibn Musa
Kamāl al-Dīn Muḥammad ibn Mūsá al-Dīrī
Arabic
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'Map of Haushabi and Subaihi Border'
Colonel R A Wahab
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Poetry Collection of Ṣafī al-Dīn al-Ḥilli
an autobiographical note in saj’
Arabic
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'Book 141 1844-1849' secret letters inward
Captain Samuel Hennell
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'File 36/48 III Imports of Goods Recommended Under Sundries for the United Kingdom'
an agent. in Bahrain by a number of merchants active in the country. The applications relate to the importation of a number of different goods including clothes
ara,eng
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www.qdl.qa
Undetermined
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‘Draft of the conditions for Peace offered by the Russian Plenipotentiary General Obreskoff to His Excellency The Kaim Mukam at the Conference held at Kara-Melek on the 3d of November 1827’
the Russian plenipotentiary General Obreskoff [Aleksandr Mikhailovich Obreskov] to the Kaim Mukam [Mirza Abū al-Qāsim Farāhānī
eng,fas
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'File 4/24 AGENCY FUNDS ACCOUNTS'
the Political Agency An office of the East India Company and
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Rasāʾil Ikhwān al-Ṣafāʾ Messages of the Brotherhood of Purity Ikhwān al-Ṣafāʾ The Brotherhood of Purity
an anonymous group calling themselves Ikhwān al-Ṣafāʾ wa Khullān al-Wafāʾ
Arabic
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'File 17/7 Boat for the use of the Political Agent, Muscat'
an agent. in Muscat. Much of this correspondence relates to the purchase of a Montagu whaler boat
ara,eng
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Kitāb aghdhiyat al-marḍá The Book of Food for the Sick 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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‘File 21/13 DETENTION OF MUSCAT SUBJECT BY AMIR OF ZAKRIT'
the Political Agent A mid-ranking political representative
ara,eng
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Dar yāftan-i avval-i sāl-i suryāni in finding the first Syriac year
a summarising table. The only section in the present volume not written in Arabic
fas,ota
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Jawāmi‘ book Jalinūs fi al-tashrīḥ lil-muta‘allimīn Galen JalĊnus
Hunayn ibn Ishaq
Arabic
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'File 8/43 Persian Gulf Newsletter'
the British Government of a monthly Persian Gulf The historical term used to describe the body of water between the Arabian Peninsula and Iran. newsletter to the British Broadcasting Company
ara,eng
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East Persia, Herat and Afghanistan mission order
the British Minister at Tehran
eng,fas
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File 58 Bahrain affairs
Bahrain against the Chief of Wukra
ara,eng
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“The Scientific Essay on the Need for Compound Remedies” from the "Canon of Medicine"
Muslim authors as al-Shaykh al-Ra'īs
Arabic
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File 1290/1905 'Mesopotamia: Oudh Bequest'
the British officials to describe the territory roughly corresponding to
ara,eng
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Coll 30/206 'Bahrein Naval Wireless Station.'
the British Government of a parcel of land at Qudhaibiyah
ara,eng
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'File 16/00 Letters of good offices'
Britain from the nineteenth century to 1971 to refer to the present-day United Arab Emirates. . Claimants’ letters are mainly in Arabic and occasionally in Persian. The main correspondence is between the Residency An office of the East India Company and
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Kitāb al-Wāfī fī al-Tadbīr al-kāfī The Book of Al-Wafi in Sufficient Management Maṣmūdī, Muḥammad ibn Aḥmad Masmoudi, Muhammad bin Ahmad
Muḥammad ibn Aḥmad al-Maṣmūdī
Arabic
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al-Mukhtṣar fī al-qirānāt The summary of the Qur’an Ibn Abī Ṭāhir Ibn Abi Tahir
Abū al-Qāsim al-Muẓaffar ibn ‘Alī ibn al-Muẓaffar ibn Muḥammad ibn ‘Abd al-Ṣamad known as Ibn Abī Ṭāhir
Arabic
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'File 2/14 Outbreaks of smallpox, cholera and other diseases on the Trucial Coast'
an agent. at Sharjah
ara,eng
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'Confidential 86/7-IV B.40. Petroleum Concessions Limited - Trucial Coast.'
each party with the Shaikh of Dubai intending to sign the concession formally once it had been approved by the British Government
ara,eng
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‘File 86/2 IV (C 43) Bahrain Oil; Eastern and General Syndicate Limited’
the Bahrain Petroleum Company
ara,eng
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'File 61/14 II (D 46) 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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'File 21/36 Miscellaneous correspondence with British Overseas Airways Corporation'
an agent. in Bahrain and the British Overseas Airways Corporation in Bahrain. Additional correspondence is from the Foreign Office and the Political Residency An office of the East India Company and
ara,eng
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'File 8/38 Muscat State Affairs Qwasimi Shaikh of Dhibba and his Relations with the State'
the Qāsimī tribe from Ras al Khaima. ] and the Shihuh
ara,eng
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'12 File 323 I - Interference of Persian Agents in Bahrain Affairs'
the British Government against the chiefs of Bahrain that it had accused of acts of piracy. The correspondence includes original copies of letters from Persian Government officials
ara,eng,fas
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Anonymous treatise on the calculation of days and months
a summarising table
Arabic
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al-Mufradāt Vocabulary Shāhīn ibn Jirjis Shaheen ibn Jirjis
an introduction to the tables and general medical principles. Tables of synonymous drug names are found on ff. 144r-152r. The tables at least are attributed to the otherwise unknown Shāhīn ibn Jirjis
Arabic
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www.qdl.qa
Undetermined
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Rawḍ al-insān fī aḥwāl al-rūḥ wa-al-abdān Tame man in the conditions of the soul and bodies ‘Aṭūfī Marzīfūnī, Khiḍr ibn Maḥmūd Atofi Marzifuni, Khidr bin Mahmoud
Khayr al-Dīn Khiḍr ibn Maḥmūd ibnʿUmar al-ʿAṭūfī al-Marzīfūnī
Arabic
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Tarjamat risālat al-nafs Translation of the message of the soul Avicenna Avicenna
Abū ʿAlī al-Ḥusayn ibn ʿAbd Allāh
Persian
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Sharḥ nuzhat al-nuẓẓār fī ʿilm al-ghubār Explanation of Nuzhat al-Nazar in the science of dust Ghazzī, Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad Ghazzī, Ahmad ibn Muhammad
Shihāb al-Dīn Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad ibn Jibrīl al-Ghazzī al-Maghribī
Arabic
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Vol 14: Letters Outward
Lieutenant William Bruce
ara,eng
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File [10/12] Tribal and desert information: Ikhwan raids on Kuwait and defensive measures
Ikhwan forces in and around Kuwaiti territory
ara,eng
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The Perfection of Eloquence: The Letters of Shams al-Maʻali Qabus ibn Washmakir
Ibn Washmakir. The letters demonstrate the writer’s badi’
Arabic
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'File 53/11 VII (D 94) Date Gardens of Shaikhs of Kuwait and Mohammerah'
the rulers of Mohammerah and 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,tur
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A Syrian Voyage in Central and South America
a lack of objectivity and an often violently polemical view regarding Islam. Among his well-known works are Remarques sur les mots français dérivés de l' arabe
Arabic
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'File 10/1 G BAPCO labour'
BAPCO employees
ara,eng
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The Clarification of the General Principles of Medicine
sections on theoretical medical knowledge and on practical medical knowledge. The theoretical section is further divided into four parts
ara,fas
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Sharḥ al-Mūjaz al-musammá ḥisāban yasīran Explanation of the summary called an easy account
al-Hadīyah Aḥmad ibn Mas‘ūd al-Ḥasaynī al-Hargāmī
Arabic
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‘File 7/5 Proposal to base R.A.F. squadron in Bahrain’
the relocation of Squadron 203 from Basra to Aden
ara,eng
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'File 10/16 Legislation for preventing the import and sale in Bahrain of foreign imitations of British designs'
the firm of J E Khedouri
ara,eng
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'Arabic File No. 10'
Britain from the nineteenth century to 1971 to refer to the present-day United Arab Emirates. at Sharjah. These letters cover the year 1930
ara,eng,fas
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Risālah fī ʻilm al-akhlāq A Treatise on Ethics Avicenna Avicenna
Abū 'Alī al-Ḥusayn ibn ʻAbd Allāh
Arabic
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'File 4/35 Accounts of the Kuwait Municipality, Health, Food Supply and Revenue Departments'
an agent. and the Political Residency An office of the East India Company and
ara,eng
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Coll 30/121 'Bahrain Oil Concession: Reservation by the Bahrain Petroleum Company of land not within the original reservation.'
the Bahrain Petroleum Company
ara,eng
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‘Diary of Gertrude Bell, 1911.’
Gertrude Margaret Lowthian Bell
ara,eng
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'File XXXIII/12. EDUCATION of SAID SAID BIN TAIMUR 1916-1926.'
Muhammad Rashid Rida
ara,eng
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File 2182/1913 Pt 12 'ARABIA: RELATIONS WITH BIN SAUD (AMIR OF NEJD) (HEJAZ-NEJD BOUNDARY DISPUTE)'
the British to arrange a meeting between the two rulers. The correspondence discusses conditions and arrangements for a proposed meeting at Mecca
ara,eng