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'File No. E/7 V. O. Correspondence regarding the Diving Court.'
the Political Agency An office of the East India Company and
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Coll 20/3(3) 'Muscat: Relations with HMG: Commercial Treaty, Revision of'
Major Andrew Charles Stewart of the Political Agency An office of the East India Company and
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'Flags Flown by the Sheikh of Qatar. (Bahrain and Trucial Coast)'
the British Admiralty between 1929 and 1938 regarding flags flown by the sheikhs of Qatar
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A collection of treatises on astronomical instruments and their use
Maghribī authors. The volume itself is assembled from sections dating to over a 300-year period between 9 Muḥarram 903/7 September 1497
Arabic
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‘Letters from India (Secret Dept)’, Vol. 13
the British officials to describe the territory roughly corresponding to
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'Head V Oman Ports Subject 1 to 18 inclusive'
Britain from the nineteenth century to 1971 to refer to the present-day United Arab Emirates. . The reasons for the fines include breaching the maritime peace
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Quwá al-adwiyah al-mufradah The Powers of Single Medicines Ibn Abī al-Ash‘ath, Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad Ibn Abi al-Ash’ath, Ahmad ibn Muhammad
Abū Ja‘far Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad ibn Abī al-Ash‘ath
Arabic
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Risālat al-fawāʼid fī al-raʼy al-muḥaṣṣal min al-aqdamīn jawhar al-ajrām al-samāwīyah wa-bayān madhhabihum al-muḥaqqaq ʻinda al-shaykh The message of benefits in the opinion obtained from the ancients The essence of the celestial bodies and an explanation Their doctrine was verified by Sheikh Avicenna Ibn Sina
Abū 'Alī al-Ḥusayn ibn ʻAbd Allāh
Arabic
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'File 6/80 Bahrain Estates, Minors' Department'
the government due to their age or mental state
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'File No 1/2 Matters affecting the Sultan of Najd'
Ibn Sa‘ūd from the British Government. There are some letters in Arabic
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'File 8/1 Arms Traffic'
way of Bedouin tribesmen.
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Kitāb mā lā yasaʿ al-ṭabīb jahluhu The Book of What the Doctor Cannot Be Ignorant Kutubī, Yūsuf ibn Ismāʿīl Kutubī, Yusuf ibn Ismail
Yusuf ibn Isma‘il ibn Ilyas al-Khuwaīy al-Baghdadi al-Qutubī
Arabic
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‘File 29/30 Civil requirements: miscellaneous items from India (pepper, spices, etc)’
sea from Bombay and Karachi to Bahrain and the Trucial Coast A name used by Britain from the nineteenth century to 1971 to refer to the present-day United Arab Emirates. ports of Dubai and Sharjah for local consumption
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Tafsīr Sūrat al-Ikhlāṣ Interpretation of Surat Al-Ikhlas Avicenna Avicenna
Abū 'Alī al-Ḥusayn ibn ʻAbd Allāh
Arabic
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‘1/1 Volume VI Kuwait Saudi Relations’
the Ruler of Kuwait and Saudi Government. Discussion amongst British officials of changes in Ibn Saud’s attitude towards the Rulers of Kuwait and Bahrain
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'File 4/6 I Kuwait-Iraq Frontier'
an agent. in Kuwait
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Notes on therapeutics Sīwī, Ibrāhīm najl Aḥmad
Ibrāhīm najl Aḥmad al-Shāfi‘ī al-Sīwī
Arabic
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'File 29/7 I Consular: Passport and Visa Regulations (governing Bahrain, Muscat, Kuwait and other Shaikhdoms)'
an agent. in Bahrain
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al-Mulakhkhaṣ fī ‘ilm al-hay’ah al-basīṭah Summary of the Science of the Simple Form Maḥmūd ibn Muḥammad al-Jaghmīnī Mahmoud ibn Muhammad al-Jaghmini
Sharaf al-Dīn Maḥmūd ibn Muḥammad ibn ‘Umar al-Jaghmīnī al-Khwārizmī
Arabic
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Coll 30/173 'Oil: Abu Dhabi Oil Concession.'
Britain from the nineteenth century to 1971 to refer to the present-day United Arab Emirates. ) Limited) and the Ruler of Abu Dhabi
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Sharḥ mukhtaṣar fī maʿrifat al-taqāwīm A brief explanation of knowing calendars
Naṣīr al-Dīn al-Ṭūsī
Arabic
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'Pocket No. 14: Enclosure to Part III of Volume I of the Persian Gulf Gazetteer: Geneaological Table of the Āl Rashid (Shammar) Family of Jabal Shammar'
John Calcott Gaskin in 1905 based on a table by Colonel Edward Charless Ross
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'West side of the mountain'. Photographer: al-Sayyid ʻAbd al-Ghaffār
pilgrims and their tents while in the left middle ground beasts of burden
Arabic
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'File 9/5 Vol. 1 Naval & Shipping : Rs. British Navy: (5) Khor Kuwai'
John Gilbert Laithwaite entitled 'Question whether a Naval Station could be established for use by His Majesty's Ships at Khor Quwai or elsewhere in Muscat Territory compatibly with the existing International Engagements of His Majesty's Government'
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Kitāb al-furūsīyah wa-shiyāt al-khayl The Book of Equestrianism and Horse Shit Ibn Akhī Ḥizām, Muḥammad ibn Yaʻqūb My nephew Hazam, Muhammad ibn Yaqub
Abū Yūsuf Yaʿqūb Ibn Akhī Ḥizām
Arabic
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'File No. G/6 V. O. Appointment of Qadhis.'
the Adviser to the Government of Bahrain to the local Qadis to discuss their roles. The main correspondence is between the Political Agency An office of the East India Company and
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'File 31/2 SUPPLY'
the Political Agency An office of the East India Company and
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'File 1/A/13 III [TRANSHIPMENT] DUES BAHRAIN.'
way of Bahrain
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Commercial Law of Egypt
the order of Egyptian ruler Khedive Muhammad Tawfīq authorizing publication and implementation of the law. The first title
Arabic
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'File 53/37, 61/5 (D 17) Kuwait: British Representation'
Lord George Nathaniel Curzon concerning his trip around the Persian Gulf The historical term used to describe the body of water between the Arabian Peninsula and Iran. in 1903
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Kitāb al-kurrah al-mutaḥarrika The Book of the Moving Ball Autolycus Otologus
the astronomer
Arabic
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Risālah aḍḥawīyah fī amr al-maʿād A sacrificial message on the matter of the Day of Resurrection Avicenna Ibn Sina
Abū 'Alī al-Ḥusayn ibn ʻAbd Allāh
Arabic
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Medical compendium
an anonymous scribe on 3 Dhū al-Ḥijja 712/4 April 1313 in part in Aleppo
Arabic
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Coll 28/20 ‘Persia Judicial. Civil, Commercial + Penal Code, and various laws.’
the Government of Persia [Iran]. The materials are either original copies in printed booklet and typewritten form
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'File 38/17 Delimitation of Trucial state boundaries and Petroleum Concession Limited's Concession Areas on the Trucial Coast'
Britain from the nineteenth century to 1971 to refer to the present-day United Arab Emirates. with an emphasis on the boundary between Dubai and Abu Dhabi. On this topic
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Vol 261 Squadron and Miscellaneous
James Felix Jones
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'File 38/3 II P. C. L. Qatar Concession'
Petroleum Development
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The True Account of Veterinary Medicine
Lebanese author Jirjīs Ṭannūs ʻAwn. It is divided into two main parts
Arabic
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'File 1/3 I Assistant Political Agent: Correspondence re'
the Bahrain state
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'File 61/14 IV (D 48) Nejd and 'Iraq, relations between'
the documents include: the military response to the crisis
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‘Diary of Gertrude Bell, 1911.’
Gertrude Margaret Lowthian Bell
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‘File 7/5 A Customs duties on R.A.F. stores’
Belgrave
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‘File 2/42 AIR AGREEMENT BETWEEN U.K. & FRENCH GOVT.'
French aircrafts. The main correspondents in the file are: the Commonwealth Relations Office
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File 9/2 II ‘No. 9/2 Vol. II Criminal Cases’
an agent. court proceedings
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'Book 47: 1826-1827'
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'File 79/44 III (S 153) War Emergency Legislation'
the Political Resident A senior ranking political representative
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'File 8/2 Public petitions etc. Letters to Major Daly (P.A.) thanking him for his interest in Bahrain affairs'
Bahraini merchants and other Bahrain inhabitants of native
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Ṭabā’i‘ al-ḥayawān Animal Natures Marwazī, Sharaf al-Zamān Ṭāhir Marwazī, Sharaf al-Zamān Tahi
Sharaf al-Zamān Ṭāhir al-Marwazī
Arabic
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'File XXVII/1 Al Khalifa family. Recognition of Shaikh Hamad as successor to Sh `Isa. CSI conferred on Shaikh `Isa. CIE conferred on Sh `Abdullah.'
the Political Agent A mid-ranking political representative
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'Existing Treaties between the British Government and the Trucial Chiefs, 1906'
two duplicate copies. The volume is subtitled Treaties and Engagements in Force on 1st January 1906 between the British Government and the Trucial Chiefs of the Arab Coast
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'File 20/3 CEREMONIALS AND HONOURS. Death of Shaikh Sir Isa bin Ali Al Khalifah, K. C. I. E., C. S. I., Ruler of Bahrain’
the Political Agency An office of the East India Company and
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'A/1 File At Last'
Shaikh Muhammad bin Ahmad Al Bu Sumait via Shaikh 'Isá in 1917
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Arabic Proverbs, or, the Manners and Customs of the Modern Egyptians
the traveler and Arabist John Lewis Burckhardt
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‘File 13/14 I General repatriation deposits – re’
the Political Agency An office of the East India Company and
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'Notes on the Bedouins and Wahabys Collected During his Travels in the East, by the Late John Lewis Burckhardt'
the Late John Lewis Burckhardt. Edited by Sir William Ouseley. Publication details: London: Henry Coburn and Richard Bentley
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File 1855/1904 Pt 6-8 'Kuwait'
year. This is placed at the back of the correspondence. The date range gives the covering dates of all the documents in the volume
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File 2/5 XIII 'SHAIKH'S DATE GARDENS'
the heirs of the former owners of the Al Faddaghiyeh
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‘File 13/4 II General Repatriation Deposits. Correspondence – Re.’
the Political Agency An office of the East India Company and
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Sullam al-samāʾ (al-Risālah al-kamālīyah) (The ladder of heaven (the perfect message) Kāshī, Jamshīd ibn Masʿūd
Ghiyāth al-Dīn Jamshīd Ibn Masʿūd ibn Maḥmūd al-Kāshī
Arabic
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'Kuwait'
Colin George Campbell
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Political correspondence
the Government of India of Sayyid Faisal ibn Turki as Sultan of Muscat.
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‘File 5/194 I,195 I, 179 III, 169 II, 104 IV Kidnapping of individuals; manumission of slaves at Kuwait and Bushire; miscellaneous slavery cases’
the Muscat Political Agent A mid-ranking political representative
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'File 5/C Kuwait Najd Boundary'
the Ikhwan Bahrain Agency An office of the East India Company and
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'File 17/21 Purchase of a Pick up for the Trucial Coast'
Britain from the nineteenth century to 1971 to refer to the present-day United Arab Emirates. Agency An office of the East India Company and
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‘File 16/33 Christian Cemetery Correspondence re:–’
the Ruler of Bahrain
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'File 6/1 II Joint Court fees: Correspondence regarding'
an agent. and the Adviser to the Government of Bahrain
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Quadrant
its maker
Arabic
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'File 53/83 VIII (D 153) Kuwait-Iraq Smuggling'
Iraqi Customs and Police Forces
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Ṭabā’i‘ al-ḥayawān Animal Natures Marwazī, Sharaf al-Zamān Ṭāhir Marwazī, Sharaf al-Zamān Tahir
Sharaf al-Zamān Ṭāhir al-Marwazī
Arabic
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'File 3/7 Launch establishment and their pay and kit'
an agent. launch: applications for employment
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Ibn al-Quff, Yaʿqūb ibn Isḥāq Ibn al-Quff, Abu al-Faraj ibn Yaqoub ibn Ishaq
Amīn al-Daulah Abū al-Faraj ibn Ya‘qūb ibn Isḥāq ibn al-Quff
Arabic
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Maqālah fī rasm al-qutū‘ al-thalāthah An article on drawing the three cuts Ibn Sinān, Ibrāhīm Ibn Sinan, Ibrahim
Ibrāhīm ibn Sinān ibn Tābit ibn Qurrah
Arabic
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'File 53/7 V (D 8) Koweit [Kuwait] Affairs, The Arab Tribes'
forces of Ibn Saud
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Quwá al-adwīyah Powers of Medicines Ibn al-Tilmīdh, Hibat Allāh ibn Ṣāʿid Ibn al-Talib, Hibat Allah ibn Sa`id
Amīn al-Dawlah Abū al-Ḥasan Hibat Allāh ibn Ṣā‘id
Arabic
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'File 86/66 Status of Kuwait Bay and Extent of Territorial Waters in Kuwait'
the Kuwait Oil Company in 1940 about how to settle details of oil concessions
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