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'Pocket No. 7: Enclosure to Part III of Volume I of the Persian Gulf Gazetteer: Genealogical Table of the Qasimi Family Formerly Ruling Lingeh'
the Qāsimī tribe from Ras al Khaima. family of Lingeh
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Tarwīḥ al-arwāḥ min ʿilal al-ashbāḥ Relieving souls from the ills of ghosts Khujandī, Fakhr al-Dīn Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad Khujandi, Fakhr al-Din Muhammad ibn Muhammad
Joe Lameer. Handbook of Oriental studies. Section one
Arabic
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'File 9/8 Bahrain Levy Corps'
Alban becoming ill
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Kitāb al-taysīr fī al-mudāwāt wa-al-tadbīr The Book of Facilitation in Healing and Management Ibn Zuhr, ʻAbd al-Malik ibn Abī al-ʻAlāʼ Ibn Zuhr, Abd al-Malik ibn Abi al-Ala
the Andalusian physician Abū Marwān ‘Abd al-Malik ibn Abī al-‘Alā’ Zuhr
Arabic
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Tawḍīḥ al-Tadhkirah al-Nāṣirīyah Clarification of the Nasiriyah Ticket Nīsābūrī, al-Ḥasan ibn Muḥammad Nisaburi, Al-Hasan bin Muhammad
al-Ḥasan ibn Muḥammad ibn al-Ḥusayn Niẓām al-Dīn al-Aʿraj al-Nīsābūrī
Arabic
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‘Umdat al-muḥtajj fī ḥukm al-shaṭranj The Mayor of the Protestant in the Chess Arbiter Sakhāwī, Muḥammad ibn ‘Abd al-Raḥmān Sakhāwī, Muhammad ibn Abd al-Rahman
the hadith scholar and historian Abū al-Khayr Shams al-Dīn Muḥammad ibn ‘Abd al-Raḥman al-Sakhāwī al-Shāf‘ī
Arabic
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Kitāb al-suʾl wa-al-umnīyah fī taʿlīm al-furūsīyah The Book of Questions and Wishes in Learning Horsemanship Aqsarā’ī, Muḥammad ibn ʿĪsá Aqsara’i, Muhammad bin Issa
a scribe who names himself in the colophon Section at the end of a manuscript text. simply as ʻAlī
Arabic
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'File 1/18 II Major Head:- Political. Subject:- Sultan of Najd's relations with Iraq.'
Akhwan [Ikhwān] tribes from Najd. The correspondence is mainly between the Political Resident A senior ranking political representative
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'File 6/44 I Miscellaneous correspondence with the Adviser'
an agent. in Bahrain and the Adviser to the Government of Bahrain
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'File 7/4 R.E. [Re-export] and Transhipment Cargo'
the Hindu merchants of Bahrain to extend the period for disposal of re-export cargo from twenty to thirty days
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Sharḥ al-Mulakhkhaṣ fī al-hayʾah Explanation of the summary in the body Jurjānī, ʿAlī ibn Muḥammad Jurjani, Ali bin Muhammad
ʿAlī ibn Muḥammad ibn ʿAli al-Ḥusaynī al-Jurjānī
Arabic
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'File No. E/14 V. O. Miscellaneous Proclamations Received from the Bahrain Government.'
the Bahrain Political Agency An office of the East India Company and
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‘File 13/4 III: Facilities for Foreign Companies using Arab Route’
United States aircraft during the Second World War. The file contains correspondence relating to: plans of the Californian Standard Oil Company to construct landing strips along the Arab coast between Dhahran and Kuwait
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Coll 30/18(1) 'Persian Gulf: Bahrein, Customs dues on goods in transit; attitude of Ibn Saud'
Saudi Arabia and its precursor states
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'1/C III. Miscellaneous.'
Shaikh Khaz'al
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Risālah fī al-ʿamal bi-al-rubʿ al-mujayyab A treatise on work in the answering quarter Sibṭ al-Māridīnī, Badr al-Dīn Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad The tribe of al-Māridīnī, Badr al-Din Muhammad ibn Muhammad
Badr al-Dīn Abū ‘Abd Allāh Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad ibn Aḥmad al-Shāfi‘ī al-Miṣrī al-Dimashqī
Arabic
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'14/115 II B. 5. Abu Musa. Abu Musa oxide contracts and concession. Hassan Samaiyeh's dealings with the Germans.'
Shaikh Sagar bin Khaled of Sharjah. Letters reference the Protectorate Treaties 1897 clause that the Protectorate Sheikhs should on "no account
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'File 4/23 Treasury Rules and Regulations.'
the Government of India
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‘File 28/35 Denial programme Qatar’
Petroleum Development
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'File 2/24 II. AVIATION. B. ROYAL AIR FORCE (3R) R.A.F. Landing Ground at Murbat’
an Admiralty tanker 900 cases of petrol and fifty drums of oil to Murbat
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Original Letter from Mirza Abul Hassan Khan to the Court of Directors of the East India Company
the frontier authorities. He reports that the Shah of Persia [Fatḥ-‘Alī Shāh Qājār] intends to send him to St Petersburgh [St Petersburg]
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Native Letters Outward
the Qāsimī tribe from Ras al Khaima. ]l
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Summary of the History of the Arabs
‘Ali Mubārak Pasha An Ottoman title used after the names of certain provincial governors
Arabic
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'File 14/6 EXPLOITATION IN MUSCAT TERRITORY BY GEOLOGISTS'
officers of Geological Survey of India. This correspondents are the Political Resident A senior ranking political representative
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'File 10/16 (10/21) BAPCO's proposal to act as shipping agents: complaints against Gray Mackenzie & Co'
BAPCO against the competitors Gray Mackenzie & Co. There are some documents in Arabic
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Kitāb al-aḥkām ‘alá al-nisbah al-falakīyah The Book of Rulings on the Astronomical Ratio Sahl ibn Bishr Sahl ibn Bishr
Abū ‘Uthmān Sahl ibn Bishr al-Isrā’īlī
Arabic
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Coll 35/25(2) 'Telegraphs, Postal & Wireless. Broadcasting of anti-British propaganda in the Middle East, Persian Gulf, N.W.F. and Central Asia, etc. Broadcasts in Arabic by B.B.C.'
the BBC in September 1938 assessing the output of BBC Arabic radio broadcasts to date and their reception
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'File 19/1 III Tours of Political Agent, Bahrain'
the Political Officer
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‘X. PASSPORTS AND PROTECTION. A. PASSPORTS. (1) Persian passports regulations effecting Muscat subjects.’
Muscat subjects whose passports were seized by the Iranian Customs. The main correspondents in the file are the British Residency An office of the East India Company and
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'Oman. Map of and Reports on by Major Ross'
Major Edward Charles Ross
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‘File 16/2 Correspondence between the Hon. the P.R. and H.E. the H.C. for Iraq and King Ibn Saud’
Ibn Mesaad in Trans Jordania in early 1930
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'Persia - Head II - Subject 14'
one of the Mirza's servants. The correspondence is primarily between Captain Felix Jones
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Kashf al-ẓunūn ʿan asāmī al-kutub wa-al-funūn Revealing suspicions about the names of books and arts Kâtip Çelebi Kateb Çelebi
the Ottoman scholar Muṣṭafá ibn ʿAbd Allāh
Arabic
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'File A/6 Nasir bin Mubarak's claim to Bahrain'
his grandfather
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'Book No 271' [Resident's Tour: Reports for 1858 and 1859]
a second title page stating 'Head IX. Tour Reports. Subject 2
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Risālah al-miʻrājīyah Message of Al-Mirajiyah Avicenna Ibn Sina
near contemporaries or later Arabic biobibliographers.
Arabic
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al-Irshād li-maṣāliḥ al-anfus wa-al-ajsād Guidance for the interests of souls and bodies Ibn Jumayʿ, Hibat Allāh ibn Zayn Ibn Jumay, Hibat Allah ibn Zayn
al-Muwaffiq Shams al-Riyāsah abū al-‘Ashā’ir Hibat Allāh ibn Zayn
Arabic
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'File 2/15 II. AVIATION. B. ROYAL AIR FORCE. (3E) R. A. F. Landing Ground at Masirah'
an agent. Muscat. The correspondence mainly concerns mediation with the Government of the Sultanate of Muscat and Oman regarding: the visit of ship Lawrence to Masirah Island
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Risālat ajwibat al-masāʼil al-ʻasharah Message Answers to the Ten Questions Avicenna Avicenna
Abū 'Alī al-Ḥusayn ibn ʻAbd Allāh
Arabic
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'File V/11 Clearance Papers for Sailing Craft Leaving Bahrain'
an agent. at Bahrain
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'File 2/6 II/A-8- Volume II. Karachi - Aden Civil Air Route.'
the Royal Air Force as a war measure. The volume also contains correspondence related to the Karachi-Aden
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Dhikr al-adwiyah al-mufradah Mention of single medicines Najib al-Dīn al-Samarqandī, Muḥammad ibn ʻAlī Najib al-Din al-Samarqandi, Muhammad ibn Ali
a short list of laxative ingredients and preparations
Arabic
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'Muscat Rising of 1913'
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File 5/45 Personal File: Major J E H Hudson
extension the Gulf
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'File 3/7 PIRACY in the Persian Gulf.'
Persian subjects
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'Chart of The Gulf of Persia.'
soundings Measurements of the depth of a body of water.
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‘File 16/43-I Miscellaneous. (i) Holidays observed by the Political Agency, Bahrain. (ii) Notes re: Daily Working Hours’
an agent. . The notices in the file
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Kitāb manāfi‘ al-aḥjār wa-qīmatihā wa-usūlihā The book on the benefits of stones, their value and their origins Tīfāshī, Aḥmad ibn Yūsuf Tīfāshī, Ahmad ibn Yusuf
Aḥmad ibn Yūsuf al-Tīfāshī. Transcribed by a single scribe who completed his work on 15 Jumādá II 799 AH
Arabic
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'File 2/5 V SHAIKH’S DATE GARDENS.'
the Shaikh of Kuwait
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'File 17/2 I Stores for Agency Steam Launch etc etc — From April 1926'
an agent. 's launch the John Lambert. This includes arrangements made for repairs
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'File: E/4. Turkish mudirs of Wakra and Zubara on the Qatar Peninsular'
a member of the Āl Bū ‘Aynayn tribe at al-Wakrah in December 1907
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'File 8/14 MUSCAT STATE AFFAIRS: MUSCAT STATE FINANCES & FINANCIAL STATEMENTS.'
the Government of Muscat and Oman and forwarded to the Political Resident A senior ranking political representative
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Qawl fī al-makān A saying in the place Alhazen Ibn al-Haytham
Abū ‘Alī al-Ḥasan ibn al-Ḥasan ibn al-Haytham
Arabic
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'File 19/169 III (C 80) Bahrain Reforms'
the Political Agent A mid-ranking political representative
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'File 61/14 III (D 47) Nejd and 'Iraq, relations between, (Mutair raid on Busaiyah etc.)'
the Mutair tribe of the Ikhwan under the leadership of Faisal al-Dawish
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‘File 35/87 V (A 35) Muscat reforms, customs, finances, etc.’
a significant fall in the port’s customs revenue
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'File 1/A/11 I Honours and Awards.'
an agent.
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File 2182/1913 Pt 10 'N.W. Frontier: Proposed Russian zoological expedition'
the Foreign Secretary
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Letter from the Shargah [Sharjah] agent (Haji Ya'qub) to Lewis Pelly
a Wahabee [Wahhabi] Moollah [Mullah]. The letter also informs Pelly that Ameer Fysul had instructed his deputy at Brynee [al-Buraimi] to send his brother Abdul-Aziz al Saud to Jaalan as Amir and that they were now awaiting the arrival of a third brother
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'ANNEXE B. SOUTH ARABIA ANGLO-TURKISH BOUNDARY. SHEET NO. 1'
contours and spot heights. This map is sheet one of four. Also included is an index to adjoining sheets and a note on the survey's sources. Small printed text near below the map states that it was surveyed by the Anglo-Turkish Boundary Commission
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Excerpt on magic squares (number of concordance) Khuzā‘ī, Muḥammad ibn Aḥmad Khuzā’i, Muhammad ibn Ahmad and other short extracts and notes (benefits)
Jamāl al-Dīn Abū ‘Abd Allāh Muḥammad ibn Aḥmad ‘Umar al-Khuzā‘ī
Arabic
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'File 61/14 XI (D 58) Relations between Nejd and Iraq'
an agent. in Jeddah
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‘File 7/1 I Kuwait Order-in-Council (Jurisdiction Over Foreigners)’
the sovereign of the United Kingdom on the advice of the Privy Council.
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'File No. G/7 II Id Calls & Letters'
an agent.
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Quoted from the Canon Extracts from theCanon[ofMedicine] Ibn Sīnā, Avicenna
the scribe Ayyūb of Nazareth
Arabic
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'File No. B/1 V. O. Miscellaneous Correspondence with the Shaikh and Notables of Qatar.’
an agent. in Bahrain. Most of the correspondence in the file is in Arabic. Folios 143-151 are file notes.
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‘File 7/1 IV General correspondence regarding Kuwait Order in Council (1949) and King's Regulations made under the Kuwait Order in Council’
the sovereign of the United Kingdom on the advice of the Privy Council. . Topics covered include the status of Lebanese subjects in Kuwait
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'File 0223 Ras Al Khaimah Affairs'
an agent. at Sharjah
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Ḥāshiyat Sharḥ Kullīyāt al-Qānūn Footnote explaining the faculties of law Kāzarūnī, Muḥammad ibn Masʿūd Kāzarūnī, Muhammad bin Masoud
Sadīd al-Dīn Muhammad ibn Mas‘ud al-Qazarouni
Arabic
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'Treaties and undertakings in force between the British Government and the Rulers of Kuwait, 1841-1913'
the Government of India Foreign Department. The volumes contain transcripts of treaties and undertakings relating tyo Kuwait in English and
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‘File 13/3 BOAC [British Overseas Airways Corporation] services’
the British Overseas Airways Corporation
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'File A/2 II Slave Trade. Correspondence with Bushire regarding slaves and their manumission certificates and applications'
an agent. at Bahrain. Some applications are made with the Residency An office of the East India Company and
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'File 2/4 IV TAXATION of SHAIKH’S DATE GARDENS.'
the Shaikh of Kuwait
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Sīyāsat al-nufūs Politics of souls Sinān ibn Thābit Sinan ibn Thabit
Sinān ibn Thābit
Arabic
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Anonymous treatise on the exaltations and falls of the seven planets Hermes
هرمس
ʻAbd Allāh ibn al-Ṣāḥib Nūr al-Dīn al-Jazarī al-Masīḥī
Arabic
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al-Tuḥfah al-saʿdīyah The Saʿdīyah Masterpiece Quṭb al-Dīn al-Shīrāzī, Maḥmūd ibn Masʿūd Qutb al-Din al-Shirazi, Mahmoud ibn Masoud
Quṭb al-Dīn Maḥmūd ibn Mas‘ūd al-Shīrāzī
Arabic
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'File 35/7 Agitation for Constitutional Reforms in Bahrain'
Britain's Political Agent A mid-ranking political representative
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'File 13/166 Forms of addresses while corresponding with native chiefs in the Gulf'
the British Government in India that lists details on the correct forms of address for the many princes
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Taḥrīr kitāb al-masākin Editing the Book of Residences Theodosius Theodosius
Theodosius of Bithynia
Arabic