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‘File 29/21 - III FOOD SUPPLY RICE’
Britain from the nineteenth century to 1971 to refer to the present-day United Arab Emirates. shaikhdoms
ara,eng
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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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Kitāb al-ukar The Book of the Most Powerful Theodosius Theodosius
Theodosius of Bithynia
Arabic
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'14/102 I Sir Abu Nu`air'
ara,eng
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File 4722/1918 Pt 5 'Mesopotamia: Administration - Future Constitution'
the League of Nations to assign the territory as a British mandate. A number of matters are covered by the volume
ara,eng
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'File 1/45 Daftari in the Court of Indian Assistant'
an entry in the notes at the end of the file.
ara,eng
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Alexandrian Summaries of eight medical treatises by Galen
the Greco-Roman physician Galen of Pergamon
Arabic
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al-Nasamah al-nafḥīyah The whiff Maqdisī, ʿAlī ibn Ghānim Maqdisi, Ali bin Ghanem
ʿAlī ibn Ghānim al-Maqdisī
Arabic
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Collections of the book of Galen on the mood according to the opinion of the Alexandrians
Hunayn ibn Ishaq
Arabic
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'File B/3 Miscellaneous Correspondence with the Shaikh, the Notables and the Political Agent, Kuwait'
the Political Agent A mid-ranking political representative
ara,eng,fas
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al-Juz’ al-thāmin wa-al-juz’ al-tāsi‘ min al-ḥāwī fī al-ṭibb Part Eight and Part Nine of Al-Hawi fi al-Tibb Rāzī, Abū Bakr Muḥammad ibn Zakarīyā Razi, Abu Bakr Muhammad bin Zakaria
Abū Bakr Muḥammad ibn Zakarīyā al-Rāzī
Arabic
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'File 8/11 Proscribed newspapers and seditious press articles'
an agent. and others
ara,eng
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www.qdl.qa
Undetermined
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'File 9/10 II Export of gold and silver from Bahrain "Routine"'
an export license issued by the Political Agent A mid-ranking political representative
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'File B/3 Sponge and Pearl Concessions'
foreign and British commercial concerns to obtain concessions in the Gulf for sponge fishing and the fishing and export of pearls. The principle correspondents in the file are the Political Resident A senior ranking political representative
ara,eng
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‘File 16/37 Miscellaneous. Monthly reports of locust occurrences in Bahrain– Submission of–’
Britain from the nineteenth century to 1971 to refer to the present-day United Arab Emirates.
ara,eng
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'File 6/73 Live Stock'
an agent. in Karachi regarding Belgrave's proposal to import goat stock into Bahrain. Folios 63-67 are internal office notes.
ara,eng
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Sharḥ al-Mulakhkhaṣ fī al-hayʾah Explanation of the summary in the body Turkmānī, Kamāl al-Dīn Turkmānī, Kamal al-Din
Kamāl al-Dīn Muḥammad ibn Aḥmad ibn ‘Uthmān ibn Ibrāhīm ibn Muṣṭafá al-Māridīnī al-Turkmānī al-Ḥanafī
Arabic
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'File 9/7 Arms & Ammunition. Issue of Permits to Country-crafts to Carry Arms'
British officials to refer to local sailing vessels in the western Indian Ocean. boat captains)
ara,eng
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File 3467/1919 'MESOPOTAMIA POLICE REPORTS'
Ma’ruf al Risari [Maruf al Rusafi]
ara,eng
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File 2/5 XV 'SHAIKH'S DATE GARDENS'
the heirs of the former owners of the Al Faddaghiyeh
ara,eng
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‘File 13/18 ILLEGAL TRAVELLING PERMITS ISSUED BY THE AMIR OF JAALAN, - BENI BU ALI, TO MUSCAT SUBJECTS.’
Ali bin Abdulla [‘Alī bin ‘Abdullāh]
ara,eng
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Sharḥ khulāṣat al-ḥisāb Sharḥ khulāṣat al-ḥisāb Kāẓimī, Jawād ibn Saʿd
Jawād ibn Saʿd ibn Jawād al-Qazimī
Arabic
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Tarjumah-ʼi ʻAjā’ib al-makhlūqāt Translation: Wonders of Creatures Anonymous translator
Zakarīyā ibn Muḥammad Qazwīnī
Persian
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[Sharḥ Mawlānā Mubārakshāh bar adwār]
Ṣafī al-Dīn ʿAbd al-Muʾmin ibn Yūsuf al-Urmawī
Arabic
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'File 12/5 (1 A/23) Administration - Activities of the Persian Navy'
the Persian authorities in 1941
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'B. 9, 14/115 VI. Abu Musa Oxide, 1910 to 1911: British Memorandum; German Memorandum; Colonel Cox's Notes'
a German company
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'Confidential 86/7 - ix B.52. P.C.L. TRUCIAL COAST'
Britain from the nineteenth century to 1971 to refer to the present-day United Arab Emirates. Shaikh’s. Petroleum Concessions Limited’s negotiations with Shaikh Sultan bin Salim [Sulṭān bin Sālim Āl Qasimī]
ara,eng
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'Vol 282 Head IV, Volume 11 (eleven) Bahrein and Wahabee Complications'
Captain Jones to the Secretary to Government at Bombay
ara,eng,ota,tur
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Coll 30/111 'British Naval Stations in: Establishments at Khor Quwai and Bahrain. Evacuation of Henjam and Basidu.'
the Iranian Government to assert their claims to Basidu. In addition
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Muqarrib al-maṭālib fī taʿdīl al-kawākib Muqarrib al-Maṭalīb in modifying the planets Ghiyāthī al-Tāzī, Jābir ibn ʿAbd Allāh, Ghayāthi al-Tāzī, Jabir ibn Abdullah
Jābir ibn ʿAbd Allāh ibn al-Ḥājj Jābir al-Ghiyāthī al-Tāzī
Arabic
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'File 26/2 Bahrain Government Honours ("Order of the Al Khalifah")'
the ruling family of Bahrain known as the 'Order of the Al Khalifah'
ara,eng
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'File No. G/2 V. O. Miscellaneous Correspondence with the Manamah Notables.'
an agent. and a third party. A significant amount of the file is in Arabic.
ara,eng,fas
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Enclosures in Sir Harford Jones's Letter No. 4 to Sir Robert Dundas, President of the Board of Control
an Act of Parliament in 1784 to supervise the activities of the East India Company.
eng,fas,fra
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Mukhtaṣar fī ‘ilm al-uṣūl A brief on the science of origins Anonymous
means of the Maker’
Arabic
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‘1/1 Volume VII Kuwait-Saudi Relations’
the agreement
ara,eng
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www.qdl.qa
Undetermined
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Three treatises on natural philosophy and medicine
f. 110
Arabic
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'File 4/22 I Construction of a Port in Kuwait Bay under Iraqi Control; Extension of the Iraqi Railway; Umm Qasr'
rail). Subsequently
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'File 2/5 VI SHAIKH’S DATE GARDENS.'
the Shaikh of Kuwait
ara,eng
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al-Qanūn al-Masʿūdī Al-Masudi Law Bīrūnī, Muḥammad ibn Aḥmad Biruni, Muhammad ibn Ahmad
Abū al-Rayḥān Muḥammad ibn Aḥmad al-Bīrūnī
Arabic
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Reports by Haji Ahmed, the Residency munshi and others on trade, travel and history of the Gulf Region
Hajee Ahmed [Haji Ahmed]
ara,eng
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Risālat al-farq bayna al-ḥarārah al-gharīzīyah wa-al-gharībah A message on the difference between innate and strange heat Avicenna Ibn Sina
Abū 'Alī al-Ḥusayn ibn ʻAbd Allāh
Arabic
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Safīr al-Ghabrāʾ wa-al-khaḍrāʾ Ambassador of dust and greenness Dashtakī Shīrāzī, Ghiyāth al-Dīn Manṣūr Dashtaki Shirazi, Ghiyāth al-Dīn Mansour
Amīr Sayyid Ghiyāth al-Dīn Manṣūr ibn Muḥammad al-Dashtakī
Arabic
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Poetry Collection
Arabic
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‘I Riyadh (VII) Colonel Dickson’s v[isit] to Riyadh (Includes visits of other Europeans to Riyadh’
Europeans and Americans to Saudi Arabia
ara,eng
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al-Risālah fī al-ʻishq The Treatise on Love Avicenna Ibn Sina
Abū ʿAlī al-Ḥusayn ibn ʿAbd Allāh
Arabic
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Jāmiʿ li-quwá al-adwiyah wa-al-aghdhiyah A collector of the powers of medicines and foods 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
Arabic
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'1914 War: Miscellaneous Letters concerning Bahrain'
the Political Agent A mid-ranking political representative
ara,eng
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'File [VIIIB/2] MUSCAT STATE AFFAIRS: Zanzibar Subsidy and Arms Subsidy'
the Government of India to the Sultan of Muscat and Oman
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'File 53/49 (D 37) Kuwait Oil'
ara,eng
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Coll 30/87(2) Part I 'Qatar: Oil Concession.'
the Shaikh of modern
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'File 6/1 REPORTED PLOT TO GET SAIYID TURKI TO ABDICATE AND THEN RE-AMALGAMATE MUSCAT WITH ZANZIBAR IN 1880. SULTAN OF ZANZIBAR'S PRESENTS TO THE SHAIKHS OF OMAN. SUGGESTED COMPLICITY OF ZANZIBAR IN MUSCAT REBELLION OF 1895.'
certain Arab shaikhs against Seyyid Faisul [Sayyid Fayṣal bin Turkī Āl Bū Sa‘īd]
ara,eng
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The Book of Abbreviations of the Sixteen by Galen, Summary by Yahya the Grammarian
Galen for beginners selected to form the primary medical curriculum in late-antique Alexandria. The title page
Arabic
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'File 53/32 IV (D 100) Kuwait Miscellaneous'
Iraq
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Sharḥ Mukhtaṣar fī maʿrifat al-taqāwīm A brief explanation of knowing calendars Anonymous
Naṣīr al-Dīn al-Ṭūsī
Arabic
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Risālah al-Manāmīyah The Message of Manmiya Masīḥī, ʻĪsá ibn Yaḥyá Christian, Isa bin Yahya
one of Ibn Sīnā's teachers
Arabic
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al-Juz’ al-thānī min kitāb al-masā’il Part Two of the Book of Issues Qaṣrānī, Ya‘qūb ibn ‘Alī Qasrani, Ya’qub ibn Ali
Abu Yusuf Ya‘qūb ibn ‘Ali al-Qarshī al-Qaṣrānī
Arabic
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'File 53/83 II (D 105) Smuggling Between 'Iraq + Kuwait'
Iraqi Government armoured cars
ara,eng,fra
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Share
Abu al-Qasim Abd al-Rahman ibn Ali ibn Abi Sadiq al-Nisaburi
Arabic
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'File 7/4 Aviation and Air Force Matters'
No. 203 Squadron RAF
ara,eng
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'The printing press (built a few years ago) in Mecca'. Photographer: al-Sayyid ʻAbd al-Ghaffār
during the reign of Sultan Abdulhamid II
Arabic
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al-Masā’il fī al-ṭibb lil-muta‘allimīn Issues in medicine for learners Ḥunayn ibn Isḥāq al-‘Ibādī Hunayn ibn Ishaq al-Abadi
the famous physician and translator Abū Zayd Ḥunayn ibn Isḥāq al-‘Ibādī
Arabic
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'File 10/3 XI Qatar Oil Concession'
the Petroleum Concessions Limited for the camp at Jebel Dukhan
ara,eng
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'File 6/1 I Joint Court Fees, Correspondence regarding'
an agent. at Bahrain and the Adviser to the Government of Bahrain
ara,eng
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'File 6/10 III Air Agreements'
Britain from the nineteenth century to 1971 to refer to the present-day United Arab Emirates. .
ara,eng
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'File 53/89 II (D 169) Kuwait Education'
the British Council. The volume contains a number of reports on education in Kuwait authored by F J Wakelin
ara,eng,fra
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'File 73/7 III (D 24) Status of Kuwait & Anglo-Turkish negotiations'
the British officials to describe the territory roughly corresponding to
ara,eng,fra
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[Sharḥ qaṣīdah fī al-nafs Explanation of a poem in the soul] Āwī, Aḥmad ibn Balkū Awi, Ahmad ibn Balkū
Jamāl al-Dīn Abū al-Futūḥ Aḥmad ibn ‘Abd Allāh Balkū ibn Abū Ṭālib al-Āwī
Arabic
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Anwar Khulāṣat al-ḥisāb
ʿIṣmat Allāh ibn Aʿẓam ibn ‘Abd al-Rasūl al-Sahāranfūrī
Arabic
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'Slave Trade'
the Imaum. Enclosures to the correspondence include: a copy of the agreement in English
ara,eng
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'File 4/19 Smuggling of Unlicensed Tea from India by Kuwait'
Kuwaiti traders. Towards the end of the file
ara,eng
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Collection of prescriptions and short chapters on medical topics
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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'File XXXVIII/1 Sur and the Amirs of Ja‘alan. Sur Affairs 1918 to 1925'
force and the right to settle intertribal disputes of other tribes by force.’ This led to further inter-tribal disturbance and difficulty over the building of the new custom house. The Political Agency An office of the East India Company and
ara,eng,guj
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'CONFIDENTIAL 86/7-VI B.43. PETROLEUM CONCESSIONS LTD. TRUCIAL COAST'
Shaikh Sa’id bin Maktum al Maktum [Saʻīd bin Maktūm Āl Maktūm] to the Political Resident A senior ranking political representative
ara,eng
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'File 9/5 Traffic in cultured pearls on Trucial Coast'
Britain from the nineteenth century to 1971 to refer to the present-day United Arab Emirates.
ara,eng
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'File 9/1 V Claims and complaints'
an agent. in Kuwait. A minority of the papers are those relating to merchandise suppliers to Kuwaiti businesses
ara,eng
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Three short poems and seven medical extracts
Jibrā’il ibn Bakhtīshū‘ to the Caliph al-Ma’mūn
Arabic
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Treatise on horsemanship, arms and military skills
rubricated captions
Arabic
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‘File XXVIII/9 Internal Politics and Relations with Oman Sohar, Sharaqiah, Nizwa and Baraimi News. 1925 to 1931.’
Britain from the nineteenth century to 1971 to refer to the present-day United Arab Emirates. and Shaikh ‘Isa bin Salih al-Harthi on behalf of the Imam of Oman to militarily unite against Ibn Sa'ud. To discuss the matter
ara,eng
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'File 6/21 Proposed return of Shaikh Khallaf, late Shea [Shi'a] Qadhi of Bahrain'
a petition from Shī‘a village headmen
ara,eng
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‘File 16/23 [I] Miscellaneous. Payment of Military pensions from the Bahrain Treasury and other correspondence regarding.’
pensions who have stopped receiving their pension payments
eng,fas
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'File 31/3 (1 A/16) APPOINTMENT OF HEIR APPARENT TO SHAIKH HAMAD.'
a high-ranking British colonial representative
ara,eng
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‘File 28/7 I War: Propaganda: local opinion’
the Publicity Office in Bahrain
ara,eng