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'File 35/85 I A 8. Muscat: French Flag Question'
dhows at Sur and the actions taken by the Sultan of Muscat and the Government of India. Includes a hand drawn map
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'Political'
Oman from June-July 1886
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'File 8/21 II MUSCAT STATE AFFAIRS: DEPENDENCIES – SUR (OPERATIONS).'
the Government of Muscat and Oman
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Kitāb istī‘āb al-wujūh al-mumkinah fī ṣan‘at al-asṭurlāb The Book of Understanding the Possible Faces in the Making of the Astrolabe Bīrūnī, Muḥammad ibn Aḥmad Biruni, Muhammad ibn Ahmad
Abū al-Rayḥān Muḥammad ibn Aḥmad al-Bīrūnī
Arabic
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Alexandrian Summaries of three medical treatises by Galen
Ḥunayn ibn Isḥāq
Arabic
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'File 10/1 IX Bahrain Oil Concession'
The Bahrain Petroleum Company Limited under Concession dated December 2nd 1925'
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'File XXXV/5 VOL. I. APPOINTMENT OF NEW BRITISH FINANCIAL ADVISER. April 1930- Oct: 1931'
the High Commissioner in Baghdad was Stuart Edwin Hedgcock who was serving in Iraq at the time and who had a thorough knowledge of Arabic. The correspondence in the file contains discussions regarding the financial status of the Council of Ministers
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al-Ghiná wa-al-muná Wealth and prosperity Qumrī, Abū Manṣūr al-Ḥasan ibn Nūḥ Qumrī, Abu Mansur al-Hasan ibn Nuh
Abū Manṣūr al-Ḥasan ibn Nūḥ al-Qumrī
Arabic
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'File 6/49 Artesian wells in Bahrain - Correspondence regarding'
an agent. in Bahrain
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'File 53/11 I (D 10) Koweit [Kuwait] Shaikh's Fao Properties 1903 and 1904'
the ruler of Kuwait
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[Kitāb al-aghdhiyyah] [The Book of Food] [Ibn Zuhr, ʿAbd al-Malik ibn Abī al-ʿAlāʾ] [Ibn Zuhr, Abd al-Malik ibn Abi al-Ala]
the Andalusian physician Abū Marwān ʿAbd al-Malik ibn Abī al-ʿAlāʾ Zuhr
Arabic
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Kitāb Thāwudhūsīyus fī al-layl wa-al-nahār The book of Theodosius in day and night Theodosius Theodosius
Theodosius of Bithynia
Arabic
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'File 7/1 I Duty on Cargo Landed at Bahrain'
Native Crafts' and 'Schedule of Fixed Export Duty'
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'Political'
Qais bin Azzan
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'Agreements with the Trucial Chiefs and also with the Chiefs of Bahrain'
Britain from the nineteenth century to 1971 to refer to the present-day United Arab Emirates. and the Shaikh of Bahrain. The treaty bound themselves
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'File X/3 Disorders & Raids near Basra & in Koweit [Kuwait] Hinterland'
an agent. in Kuwait
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Risālah ilá tilmīdhihi Abī ʻUbayd al-Jūzjānī A letter to his student Abu Ubayd Juzjani Avicenna Ibn Sina
Abū ʿAlī al-Ḥusayn ibn ʿAbd Allāh
Arabic
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'File 38/16 Effects of Bahrain-Qatar dispute on P. C. L.'
the file are mostly founded on the rival historic claims to the old settlement of Zubarah 18th-century town located 105 km from Doha. . They are as follows: the need to settle normal relations between the two countries
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'File H/13 Arabian Mission'
Britain from the nineteenth century to 1971 to refer to the present-day United Arab Emirates. and Basra
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'File 32/7 Certified copies of deeds and documents from 1 January 1927 to 1932'
officials in Kuwait. Most of the certifications deal with business transactions
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Zīj-i Ulugh Beg Ulugh Beg
Ulugh Beg
Persian
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Coll 30/151 'Oil: Sharjah Political Agreement, and Commercial Concession.'
Britain from the nineteenth century to 1971 to refer to the present-day United Arab Emirates. ) Limited
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'File 42/2 (6/2) C.C.L. De Grenier, Directors of Customs; G.W.R. Smith'
an agent. in Bahrain. The correspondence concerns arrangements for DeGrenier's leave and contract as well as a visit that he made to Kuwait in 1934
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'File 5/7 ORGANISATION AND FUNCTION OF SALIFAH COURT.'
an agent.
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Aqrābādhīn madīnat al-salamAqrābādhīn madīnat al-salam Ibn al-Tilmīdh, Hibat Allāh ibn Ṣā‘id Ibn al-Talib, Hibat Allah ibn Sa`id
‘Alī ibn Abī Ṭālib ibn ‘Alī ibn’ Alī ibn ‘Alī ibn al-Ḥusayn al-Ḥalabī
Arabic
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The Elucidation of the Memoir on Astronomy by Ṭūsi
Niẓām al-Dīn Ḥasan b. Muḥammad al-A‘raj al-Nīsābūrī al-Qummī
Arabic
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'Customs dues Bahrain'
Shaikh Isa [ʻIsá ibn ʻAlī Āl Khalīfah] in April 1916 to raise the customs duty on the transhipment of goods through Bahrain
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Letter from His Excellency Lieutenant-Colonel Justin Sheil CB, Her Majesty's Minister Plenipotentiary and Envoy Extraordinary at the Court of Persia, Camp Near Tehran, to Lieutenant-Colonel Samuel Hennell, Resident in the Persian Gulf, Bushire
the Agent. Sheil argues that it is an impossibility that the gold watch that Hajee Mahomed Jaffer bought from Moolla Mehdee could have been sold by the Agent to Meerza Abdul Baukee
eng,fas
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‘File 12/6 Marine Note of Protest’
various parties
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'File V/14 Messooda Bint Shaool Aboo Mazika, Jewish Girl Perverted Into Muhammadan by -'
the Chief Rabbi of Baghdad for the British authorities to recover a young Iraqi Jewish woman named Massooda bint Shaool Aboo Mazika [Mas‘ūdah bint Shāhūl Abū Mazīkah] who had journeyed to Bahrain
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Kitāb al-waḍīḥ fī maʿrifat ʿilm al-ramy The clear book on knowledge of the science of throwing [Ṭabarī,ʿAbd al-Raḥmān Aḥmad Tabari, Abd al-Rahman Ahmad]
Abū Muḥammad ʿAbd al-Raḥmān ibn Aḥmad al-Ṭabarī
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Kitāb anīs al-jalīs fī kull ḥadīth nafīs The book of Anis al-Jalis in every noble hadith Najjār, Ibrāhīm ibn Khalīl Al-Najjar, Ibrahim bin Khalil
this name or description is not elsewhere ascribed to Ibrāhīm al-Najjār
Arabic
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'File 17/13 Acquisition of Gwadar Political Bungalow by Air Ministry for Imperial Airways'
Imperial Airways. Prior to its purchase the bungalow was used primarily by British political officers passing through Gwadur. The correspondence also discusses the furnishing and subsequent uses of the bungalow
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‘Annex to File 86/2 Bahrain Concession Duplicate’
hand in black ink. Each page of the concession has been stamped ‘For and on behalf of The Eastern & General Syndicate
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A Guide to Geometry, Surveying, the Launching of Missiles, and the Planting of Mines
the most humble of God’s creatures
Arabic
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‘File 7/6 Proposal to construct ammunition dump at Bahrain & Sharjah’
Britain from the nineteenth century to 1971 to refer to the present-day United Arab Emirates. Political Officer at Sharjah
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Vol 43: Letters Inward
William Newnham
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al-Risālah al-nayrūzīyah The Nowruz Message Avicenna Ibn Sina
Abū 'Alī al-Ḥusayn ibn ʻAbd Allāh
Arabic
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Commentary on "The Compendium of Plain Astronomy"
Maḥmūd ibn Muḥammad Jighmīnī. A renowned Persian mathematician and astronomer
Arabic
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Taḥrīr uṣūl al-handasah wa-al-ḥisāb Editing the Principles of Geometry and Arithmetic Euclid Euclid Ṭūsī, Naṣīr al-Dīn Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad Tusi, Nasir al-Din Muhammad ibn Muhammad
the mathematician Euclid of Alexandria
Arabic
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Affairs in Persia
the Government of Persia
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Bond Granted by the Prince Royal of Persia, Abbas Meerza, to the East India Company Envoy to Persia, Lieutenant-Colonel John Macdonald Kinneir
the Prince Royal of Persia [Iran]
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Attainment of Fluency in “Al-Muthallathat” Poetry
the author with literary and morphological explanations. The main text is completely vowelled
Arabic
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Khwārizmī, Rukn al-Dīn Jamshīd Khwārizmī, Rukn al-Dīn Jamshīd
oldest surviving comprehensive archery treatise and himself founder of the 'eclectic school'
Arabic
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'File 9/22 Naval and Shipping: Movements of Other Foreign Warships in the Gulf'
an agent.
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Coll 5/65 ‘Loan of services of airmen of R.A.F. in India to Afghan Govt’
the Afghan Air Force: B Wigginton
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Hidāyat al-sāʾil ilá al-rubʿ al-kāmil Guiding the questioner to the perfect quarter Sibṭ al-Māridīnī, Badr al-Dīn Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad The tribe of al-Māridīnī, Badr al-Dīn Muhammad ibn Muhammad
the scribe ʿAlī ibn Muḥammad ibn al-Ḥasan ibn Zayn al-Dīn al-ʿĀmilī
Arabic
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'Memorandum - from Ebrahim ben Rujeb: What I know about Bahrein'
Ebrahim ben Rujeb [Ibrahim bin Rajab] and translated into English 17 February 1872 detailing what he knows of the history of Bahrein [Bahrain]. The dates in the history are given using the Hijri calendar and have been given in this description
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'File 8/7 Arms traffic; arms convention; prevention of slavery'
the Bahrain Political Agent A mid-ranking political representative
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Kitāb al-sul wa-al-umnīyah fī taʿlīm al-furūsīyah The Book of Solution and Wisdom in Learning Equestrian Works [Aqsarā’ī, Muḥammad ibn ʿĪsá Aqsara’i, Muhammad bin Issa]
the scribe ʿAlī ibn Ḥāmid ibn Abī Bakr al-Buwayṭī al-Shāfiʿī
Arabic
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'V M Hospital Building'
an agent. regarding the finance and expenditure of the hospital and requests for medicines
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'File 9/10 Currency: export of gold and silver'
the Director of Customs and Port Officer at Bahrain and sent to the Political Agent A mid-ranking political representative
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'Diary of a journey in Inner Arabia. Second part'
Julius Euting. Publication Details: Leiden
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'File 39/12 APOC's oil storage on Trucial Coast'
Britain from the nineteenth century to 1971 to refer to the present-day United Arab Emirates. .
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Coll 28/28 ‘Persia. Perso-Baluchistan Frontier. Demarcation near Mirjawa.’
the Khan of Kalat
eng,fas
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‘Book 158 1847-8’ Vol 158 Letters inward
Major Samuel Hennell
eng,fas
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Medical Digest. Book I. On the Diseases of the Respiratory System
the Jesuits in 1875. He was also a physician at the French hospital in Beirut
Arabic
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Fruits of leaves
Arabic
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‘File 61/31 III (D 118) Anglo-Saudi frontier negotiations’
the Al Murrah tribe in Saudi Arabia. Records of the official meetings held in London during June and July 1935 between the Deputy Saudi Arabian Minister for Foreign Affairs
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File [10/4] British relations with Ibn Sa`ud: title of Sultan of Najd; surrender of Hail; payment of British subsidies; Ikhwan attacks on Iraq frontier and Kuwait; institution of Najd passport
his Ikhwan forces into Southern Iraq and Kuwait
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The Extreme Perfection in Managing the Human Body
Shalih ibn Nasser Allah ibn Salloum al-Halabi
Arabic
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'File II. IRAQ (3) Vol. 2 Shaikh of Kuwait's Date Gardens on the Shatt-al Arab'
Shaikh Mubarak on his Faddaghiya estate'. The third main topic discussed is the dismissal of the Mudir of Fao for overstepping his authority. The principal correspondents in the volume include the Political Agent A mid-ranking political representative
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'Vol 212 Secret Correspondence: Bahrain; Muscat and Bandar Abbas; Miscellaneous and Local'
the volumes was Commander
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Sharḥ al-Urjūzah al-Yāsamīnīyah fī ʿilm al-jabr Explanation of the Jasmine Arguza in Algebra
Abū Muḥammad ‘Abd Allāh ibn Muḥammad ibn Ḥajjāj ibn al-Yāsamīn al-Adrinī al-Ishbīlī
Arabic
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A collection of fourteen treatises on music theory in Arabic and Persian
the time of the volume's compilation held the title Dīyānat Khān
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'File 61/14 XVII (D 76) Nejd-Iraq Relations'
Ibn Sa'ud. Other issues include: the extradition of rebel leader Ibn Mashhur from Iraq back to Najd
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'File 60/54 Imperial Bank of Iran, Dubai'
Sheikh Sa‘īd II bin Maktūm
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Letter from the Shah of Persia, Futteh Ali Shah, to the Chairman of the Court of Directors of the East India Company, and a Translation of the Letter
the East India Company Envoy to Persia
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'File 1/1 III Appointment and Transfers of Political Agents (Leave, Pay, Allowances etc.)'
Hugh Weightman while officiating as Political Resident A senior ranking political representative
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'Political Affairs of Muscat and Oman'
various tribes. Other topics discussed in the papers include Sayyid `Abd al-Aziz's property in Zanzibar
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'File 11/3 Vol. II Applications for manumission - REPATRIATION'
the British Residency An office of the East India Company and
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‘File 2/40 AIR FACILITIES. (CIVIL) MUSCAT. VOLUME I (FILE 2/40)’
the Minister for Civil Aviation to Parliament by Command of His Majesty
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‘File 16/10 II Correspondence with Eastern Bank Ltd. Bahrain’
an agent. in Bahrain and the Bahrain branch of the Eastern Bank Limited. The file’s principal correspondents are the Political Agent A mid-ranking political representative
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'File 6/43 Baladiya Medical appointments - and other correspondence regarding Bahrain Government Hospital and Dispensary'
an agent. doctor and the cost of drugs
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Commentary on the Forms of Foundation
Shams al-Dīn Muḥammad b. Ashraf al-Ḥusaynī al-Samarqandī. The author of the commentary
Arabic