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Thabat barāhīn ba‘ḍ ashkāl kitāb Ūqlīdis fī al-Ūṣūl Proofs for some forms of Euclid’s book on the principles have been proven Sijzī, Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad Sijzī, Ahmad ibn Muhammad
Abū Sa‘īd Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad ibn ‘Abd al-Jalīl al-Sijzī
Arabic
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Rackum addressed by Abbas Meerza to the Chairmen of the Court of Directors of the East India Company, and a Translation of the Rackum
the original rackum in Persian
eng,fas
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'File 19/116 VII (C 21) Oppression of Bahrain subjects by the ruling family: miscellaneous correspondence'
Bin Saud. A copy of Hafiz's Sultanate of Nejd Passport is contained on folio 93. Other topics discussed include the activities in Bahrain of local trader and prominent figure
ara,eng
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'File 10/1 XI Bahrain Oil Concession'
the Sheikh of Bahrain
ara,eng
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'File 8/29 MUSCAT STATE AFFAIRS: ACTIVITIES OF SAIYID TAIMUR BIN FAISAL'
the Political Agent A mid-ranking political representative
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Mawāniḥ al-uns bi-riḥlatī li-wādī al-Quds Mawāniḥ al-uns bi-riḥlatī li-wādī al-Quds Luqaymī, Muṣṭafá ibn Aḥmad Luqaymi, Mustafa bin Ahmed
the Sufi poet and scholar Muṣṭafá Asʿad ibn Aḥmad ibn Muhammad al-Dimyāṭī al-Luqaymī [or al-Laqīmī]
Arabic
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Kitāb al-Azminah The Book of Times
month following the order of the Orthodox liturgical calendar
Arabic
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'File 17/27 AGENCY TRANSPORT'
an agent. 's official vehicles. The file largely consists of the Agency An office of the East India Company and
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'17 File 592 I Runaway Sailors and Divers, Agreement with Trucial Chiefs for their Prevention'
Britain from the nineteenth century to 1971 to refer to the present-day United Arab Emirates. regarding arrangements concerned with runaway sailors and divers in the area. The file contains several letters and other documents in Arabic
ara,eng
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'File No 3/6 III Bahrain Agency Launch'
the Bahrain Political Agency An office of the East India Company and
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'File 2/6 KARACHI - ADEN AIR ROUTE by IMPERIAL AIRWAYS (B.O.A.C). II-A/8'
the Royal Air Force as a war measure. The correspondence in the volume is also related to the following: The use of both Khor Jarama and Masirah Island as refuelling stages for the British Overseas Airways Corporation
ara,eng
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Kitāb al-‘amal bi-l-asṭurlāb The Book of Work on the Astrolabe Ibn al-Samḥ, Aṣbagh ibn Muḥammad Ibn al-Samh, Asbagh ibn Muhammad
the Andalusian astronomer and mathematician Abū al-Qāsim Aṣbagh ibn Muḥammad al-Gharnāṭī Ibn al-Samḥ
Arabic
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'Gazetteer of the Persian Gulf. Vol. I. Geneaological Tables-Maps. Part III. J G Lorimer. 1915'
Lorimer in 1906 and 1907 and some were based on information provided by John Calcott Gaskin
ara,eng
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A collection of works and extracts mostly on medicine
a treatise on pen cutting and ink-making. The manuscript appears to have been in the possession of the Āl al-Muftī
Arabic
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'File 1/18 IV Arab Revolts against Ibn Saud, 1929.'
Akhwan [Ikhwān] tribes in Najd
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'File 53/11 XVII (D 146) Kuwait Date Gardens'
the rulers of Kuwait and Mohammerah. In particular
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Faṣl fī intiqāl al-kawākib li-l-burūj A chapter on the planets’ transit of the zodiac
the hand of the main scribe
Arabic
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‘File 28/22-I Mission of S.O.(I) [Staff Officer Intelligence] Bahrain’
normal mail
ara,eng
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'File 82/27 VII F. 88. QATAR OIL'
the Shaikh of Qatar
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'File 53/54 II (D 91) Kuwait Blockade'
Abdul Aziz ibn Abdulrahman ibn Faisal Al Saud [‘Abd al-‘Azīz bin ‘Abd al-Raḥmān bin Fayṣal Āl Sa‘ūd
ara,eng
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'File 32/3 (4/4) Bahrain Police'
an agent. in Bahrain) regarding attempts to reform and expand Bahrain's police force. The file contains a detailed report written by R I Hallows
ara,eng
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Coll 28/127(1) ‘Persia. Indian Interest in Cultural & Technical Development.’
an Iranian mission to India
eng,fas
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‘File 7/33 Demonstration flights over Trucial Coast by R.A.F. bombers from Air Head Quarters Iraq’
Royal Air Force [RAF] aircraft
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'File 53/7 A (D 4) Kuwait [Kuwait] Affairs, 1901'
Ali bin Ghulam Reza [‘Alī Ghulām Riḍā]
ara,eng
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Short mathematical texts, notes and diagrams in Arabic and Persian
Naṣīr al-Dīn Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad al-Ṭūsī's
ara,fas
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www.qdl.qa
Undetermined
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'E 12 Ibn Rashid'
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Ḥikmat-i ʿAlāʾī The Wisdom of Alāʾī Avicenna Avicenna
Abū ʿAlī al-Ḥusayn ibn ʿAbd Allāh
Persian
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'File 9/5 Naval & Shipping: Facilities for Royal Navy at Muscat Sultanate'
the file: an examination service at Khassab for ships entering 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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'File 31/2 III Correspondence re Books and Publications'
the Political Agency An office of the East India Company and
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‘File B/10 IV A CLAIM OF JAWAD BIN ABDULLAH GHULUM HAIDARABADI AGAINST SHAIKH MAJID BIN SAQR’
Jawad bin Abdullah Ghulum Haidarabadi
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Intikhāb az kitāb Jāmiʿ al-favāʾid-i Yūsufī, a selection from the comprehensive book of Al-Faawīd Yūsufī, Yūsuf ibn Muḥammad ibn Yūsuf al-Maḥallī Yūsufī, Yūsuf ibn Muhammad ibn Yūsuf al-Malushi
the Herātī physician Yusuf ibn Muḥammad ibn Yusuf al-Maḥallī al-Ȳūsufī
Persian
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'File 1/A/38 II Negotiations with Bin Saud re: Eastern boundary of Saudi Arabia with Qatar & Trucial Oman.'
Britain from the nineteenth century to 1971 to refer to the present-day United Arab Emirates.
ara,eng
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Fragment of a Christian Arabic Miscellany
the Coptic foliation is as follows: ff. 18
Arabic
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Kitāb al-bayṭarah The Book of Veterinary Medicine Azdī, Aḥmad ibn ʿAtīq Azdī, Ahmad ibn Atīq
Muḥammad ibn Yaʿqūb Ibn Akhī Ḥizām
Arabic
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'Vol 178 1852/53 Bahrain; Arabian Coast; Slave Trade; Muscat'
the Resident of 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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A Journey through the Atmosphere on an Airship
Yusuf Ilyan Sarkis
Arabic
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'File 8/1 GWADUR-KALAT BOUNDARY 1912-1942'
the Agent to the Governor-General and Chief Commissioner in Baluchistan
ara,eng,fas
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Letter from Faysul ibn Torky Al Saood [Faisal ibn Turki Al Sa'ud] to Colonel Pelly, Resident Persian Gulf
Lewis Pelly 7 February 1865 informing Pelly that he may come on to Riyadh from 'the Sirkar' and that he will be treated with hospitality along the way. The Arabic letter contains an ink seal
ara,eng
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'File 53/54 VI (D 143) Kuwait Blockade'
Abdul Aziz ibn Abdulrahman ibn Faisal Al Saud [‘Abd al-‘Azīz bin ‘Abd al-Raḥmān bin Fayṣal Āl Sa‘ūd
ara,eng
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'1/C Volume IV Miscellaneous'
Kuwait subjects
ara,eng
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The Life of Cornelius Van Dyck
commemorative essays and poems by friends
Arabic
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The Greater Luminary
Joannes Jacobus de Manliis
ara,lat
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Maqālah fī ṣūrat al-kusūf An article on the image of the eclipse Alhazen Ibn al-Haytham
Abū ‘Alī al-Ḥasan ibn al-Ḥasan ibn al-Haytham
Arabic
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'File 8/22 MUSCAT STATE AFFAIRS: KHASAB – SHAIKH HASSAN SHIHUH'
the Government of Muscat and Oman and then sent to Debai [Dubai] by the Sultan of Muscat and Oman
ara,eng
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'Pocket No. 2: Enclosure to Part III of Volume I of the Persian Gulf Gazetteer: Genealogical Table of the Qāsimi Family of Shārjah in Trucial ’Omān'
the Qāsimī tribe from Ras al Khaima. family of Sharjah
ara,eng
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'File 19/163 II (C 77) Nejd-Bahrain Relations'
Amir Saud to Bahrain
ara,eng
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Excerpts from a commentary on the poem of ʿAbd al-ʿAzīz ibn Tammām al-ʿIrāqī (Abdul Aziz ibn Tammam al-Iraqi) Anonymous
Abū al-Iṣbaʿ ʿAbd al-ʿAzīz ibn Tammām al-ʿIrāqī
Arabic
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'File 13/6 Arms Traffic General'
pearling dhows
ara,eng
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'Pilgrimage camp in the plain east of the 'Arafah Mountains'. Photographer: al-Sayyid ʻAbd al-Ghaffār
a wide variety of tents while in the foreground three camels are couched around one low-lying tent. A figure crouches alongside the camel at centre. The negative has had hand-work applied
Arabic
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Sharḥ ashkāl al-taʾsīs Explanation of the forms of incorporation Qāḍīʹzādah, Mūsá ibn Muḥammad Qazizadeh, Musa bin Muhammad
Shams al-Dīn Muḥammad ibn Ashraf al-Ḥusaynī al-Samarqandī
Arabic
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Nymphs of the Valley
the celebrated Lebanese-American author and artist Gibran Khalil Gibran. Gibran was born in 1883 to a Maronite Catholic family in the village of Bsharri in the north of Lebanon. His family immigrated to the United States in 1895
Arabic
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'1/1 Volume III Kuwait Saudi Relations'
the Kuwait Political Agent A mid-ranking political representative
ara,eng
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‘File 16/11 II Miscellaneous correspondence’
an agent. . The principal correspondents are: the Political Agent A mid-ranking political representative
ara,eng
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‘File 35/134 I A. 40. Sur: Amirs of Jaalan’
Major Gerald Patrick Murphy
ara,eng
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‘File 86/2 VI (C 46) Bahrain Oil’
the Bahrain Petroleum Company
ara,eng
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"File 21/1 I Zubarah"
men associated with the Ruler of Qatar
ara,eng
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Vol 211 Persian Expeditionary Force
an agent. for Turkish Arabia A term used by the British officials to describe the territory roughly corresponding to
eng,fas
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'File 9/1 A. Presentation of arms by P.C.L. to Rulers of Trucial Coast'
E V Packer and Petroleum Concessions Limited in 1938
ara,eng
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al-I‘lām bi-shadd al-minkām The media tightens the mink 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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File 600/1905 Pt 5 'Aden Hinterland: Treaty with Sultan of Balahaf'
the papers
ara,eng
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'File 4/34 Kuwait Territorial Waters'
English translations) and officials of the Kuwait Oil Company. In addition to correspondence
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'File 5/5 Sulphur at Kuwait'
the Ruler of Kuwait.
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Letters Inward
the Residency An office of the East India Company and
ara,eng
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'File XXII 4 Koweit relations with Bahrain.'
Acting Civil Commissioner in Mesopotamia
ara,eng
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File 29/7 II Passport and Visa Regulations
an agent. in Bahrain and the Political Residency An office of the East India Company and
ara,eng
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'159 Jurisdiction over Najdis and Hasawis 1918.'
the British Government prior to the commencement of the First World War to which a decision had not yet been reached. Included are notes and correspondence in English and Arabic between the Political Agent A mid-ranking political representative
ara,eng
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'File No. 17/9 MAILS BETWEEN BAHRAIN & IRAN'
them. A series of file notes which were maintained as a record of the correspondence in the volume can be found at folios 194-204. These file notes relate only to the correspondence from folio 62 onwards
eng,fas
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'File 1/42 Political Officer, Trucial Coast'
Britain from the nineteenth century to 1971 to refer to the present-day United Arab Emirates.
ara,eng
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Mā lā budda lil-faqīh min al-ḥisāb What is necessary for a jurist to calculate Isfarā’aynī, Abū al-‘Alā’ Muḥammad al-Bihishtī Isfarāni, Abu Al-Ala Muhammad Al-Bahishti
Abū al-‘Alā’ Muḥammad ibn Aḥmad al-Bihishtī al-Isfarā’aynī
Arabic
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'11/2 PROPOSED EXTRADITION TREATY BETWEEN BAHRAIN, NEJD, & KUWAIT - SAUDI AGREEMENT'
the Political Resident A senior ranking political representative
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File [10/4] British relations with Ibn Sa`ud: Ibn Sa`ud's complaint about aid given to rebels by King Faisal and Shaikh Ahmad; fighting between rebel and loyal forces; Battle of Injair
Faisal al-Duwaish [Faysal al-Duwaysh]
ara,eng
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'File 82/27 VIII F 91 QATAR OIL'
ara,eng
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Ibn Iyās Ibn Iyas Nashq al-azhār fī ʻajāʼib al-aqṭār Picking the flowers in the wonders of the countries
Abū al-Barakāt Muḥammad ibn Aḥmad ibn Iyās
Arabic
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'File 2/7 III Anti-malaria measures'
the Ruler of Bahrain
ara,eng
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Three Collections of Proverbs and Sayings
the Arab printer
Arabic
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‘FILE. B/11. KIDNAPPING ON TRUCIAL COAST'
Bedouins belonging to the Awamir
ara,eng