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Maqālah fī ḍaw’ al-qamr An article in the light of the moon Alhazen Ibn al-Haytham
Abū ‘Alī al-Ḥasan ibn al-Ḥasan ibn al-Haytham
Arabic
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'File 38/3 I, P. C. L. Qatar Concession'
the oil company
ara,eng
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'File 4/25 II Payments to the Ruler of Kalba.'
the Political Agent A mid-ranking political representative
ara,eng
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Kitāb al-aghdhiyah wa-al-ashribah The Book of Food and Drink Najib al-Dīn al-Samarqandī, Muḥammad ibn ʻAlī Najib al-Din al-Samarqandi, Muhammad ibn Ali
Najīb al-Dīn Abū Ḥāmid Muḥammad ibn ‘Alī ibn ‘Umar al-Samarqandī
Arabic
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'File 10/1 IV Bahrain Oil Concession'
Ali bin Hussein
ara,eng
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Treatise on drugs Taqī al-Dīn Muḥammad ibn Ṣadr al-Dīn 'Alī Taqī al-Dīn Muhammad ibn Sadr al-Dīn Ali
Taqī al-Dīn Muḥammad ibn Ṣadr al-Dīn ‘Alī
Persian
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'File 15/26 Extension of Indian Coinage Act to Bahrain'
the Finance Department
ara,eng
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The sums of Galen’s book on natural forces, directed by Hunayn ibn Ishaq.
Hunayn ibn Ishaq
Arabic
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'File 1/5D Menial Staff: Liveries'
an agent.
ara,eng
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'Corr. re: Visits of Foreign Warships to Bahrain'
local artists. Arrangements for a visit of a French sloop "d'Iberville" in 1937 calling at Bahrain
ara,eng,fra
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'File A/13 Correspondence between Shaikh `Isa and Turkish officials'
the ruler of Bahrain
ara,eng
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Coll 30/123(3) 'Bahrein (Unallotted Zone) Oil Concession: Negotiations with the Bahrain Petroleum Company.'
the Political Agent A mid-ranking political representative
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'File 10/1 XII Bahrain Oil Concession'
the Shaikh
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'File 61/8 Bin Saud's Relations with Trucial Chiefs'
Britain from the nineteenth century to 1971 to refer to the present-day United Arab Emirates. . The papers include reports in Arabic with separate English translations from the Residency An office of the East India Company and
ara,eng
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'ANNEXE B. SOUTH ARABIA ANGLO-TURKISH BOUNDARY. SHEET NO. 3'
contours and spot heights. This map is sheet three 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
ara,eng
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'FILE NO 15/2 NAME: DR. SYED ABDUL WAHAB AL ASKARI'
an agent. . The file features the following principal correspondents: the Political Agent A mid-ranking political representative
ara,eng
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Kitāb al-ghādhī wa-al-mughtadhī The Book of the One who feeds and nourishes 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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Ilḥāq Abī Isḥāq Append Abu Ishaq Kūbanānī, Abū Isḥāq ibn ‘Abd Allāh Kūbanānī, Abu Ishaq ibn Abdullah
Abū Isḥāq ibn ‘Abd Allāh al-Kūbanānī al-Yazdī
Arabic
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'Confidential 86/14-I. B.39. Petroleum Concessions Limited Bahrain'
both companies and included in the volume
ara,eng
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al-Risālah al-musammāh bi-al-adwār fī al-mūsīqī The treatise called the roles in music al-Urmawī, Ṣafī al-Dīn ʿAbd al-Muʾmin ibn Yūsuf Al-Armawī, Safi al-Din Abd al-Mu’min ibn Yusuf
Ṣafī al-Dīn ʿAbd al-Muʾmin ibn Yūsuf al-Urmawī
Arabic
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'PHYSICAL POLITICAL MAP: THE ARABIAN PENINSULA'
the Saudi Arabian Directorate of Public Instruction for use in schools
ara,eng
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Taʿlīq ʿalá Sharḥ al-risālah fī al-ʿamal bi-al-rubʿ al-mujayyab Commentary on the explanation of the message in the work in the answered quarter
Badr al-Dīn Abū ‘Abd Allāh Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad ibn Aḥmad al-Shāfi‘ī al-Miṣrī al-Dimashqī
Arabic
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Maqālah fī misāḥat al-mujassam al-mukhāfī An article on space, hidden solids, Alhazen Ibn al-Haytham
Abū ‘Alī al-Ḥasan ibn al-Ḥasan ibn al-Haytham
Arabic
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Kitāb ‘aṣāh al-Ṭūsī wa-hūwa al-asṭurlāb al-khaṭṭī The book of Asāt al-Tusi, which is the linear astrolabe
Sharaf al-Dīn Abū ‘Alī al-Ḥasan ibn ‘Alī ibn ʿUmar al-Marrākushī
Arabic
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'File 1/44 Publicity Officer, Bahrain'
an agent.
ara,eng
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Ottoman Criminal Code
Salim Baz
Arabic
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'File 10/14 Bahrain unallotted area'
the Secretary of State for India as persona non grata
ara,eng
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'File 14/235 I (B Series 8/2) Succession to the Shaikhdom of Kalba and Kalba affairs'
the firstborn child was not recognized by other rulers. The succession was contested by the Shaikh of Dibba and also Shaikh Khalid bin Ahmad
ara,eng
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Coll 20/3(2) 'Muscat: Relations with H. M. G.; Commercial Treaty: Revision of'
meetings between the Sultan and the Political Resident A senior ranking political representative
ara,eng
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Taysīr al-maṭālib fī tasyīr al-kawākib Facilitating demands in the direction of the planets Kawāshī, Muḥammad ibn Abī Bakr Kawāshi, Muhammad ibn Abi Bakr
the Yemeni astronomer Muḥammad ibn Abī Bakr al-Kawāshī
Arabic
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‘File 15/14 Rules & Regulations: Rules and Orders for Govt. Servants’
the Home Department
ara,eng
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Political
the Ibn Rashid clan of Jabal Shammar by the Political Resident A senior ranking political representative
ara,eng
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‘File 16/32-A Purchases on behalf of Bushire Residency’
an agent. in Bahrain and others
ara,eng
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'File 2/4 V ISTIHLAK TAX'
the Political Resident A senior ranking political representative
ara,eng
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'File 5/22 Sheikh Khalaf'
ara,eng
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Coll 30/135 'Bahrein: Production of oil - Royalty, Gauging, etc.'
the India Office The department of the British Government to which the Government of India reported between 1858 and 1947. The successor to the Court of Directors. and other British officials
ara,eng
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'File 4/3 I Assistants to the Adviser - Creation of Appts.'
British officials to find an appropriate candidate to hire as a 'factor'
ara,eng
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'File 4/13 I Kuwait Education'
a British educational expert named C R L Adrian-Vallance. The file contains a report on education in Kuwait written by Adrian-Vallance
ara,eng
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‘File 86/2 XIII (C 61) Bahrain Oil’
the Bahrain Petroleum Company
ara,eng
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‘File 7/1 II Kuwait Order in Council and Jurisdiction over Foreigners’
the sovereign of the United Kingdom on the advice of the Privy Council. to clarify the extent of British jurisdiction over foreigners in Kuwait
ara,eng
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'File 32/12 Estates of British and British Indian Subjects'
relatives to the estates of individuals who had died in Kuwait. The papers include witness statements
ara,eng
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'File 2/4 III TAXATION OF SHAIKH’S DATE GARDENS.'
the Shaikh of Kuwait
ara,eng
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‘Umdat al-ṭullāb fī ‘ilm al-ḥisāb Mayor of Students in Arithmetic Qabāqibī, Ibrāhīm ibn Muḥammad Qabāqibī, Ibrahim bin Muhammad
Ibn Muḥammad al-Qabāqibī al-Ḥalabī
Arabic
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Four medical works Najīb al-Dīn al-Samarqandī, Muḥammad ibn ʻAlī Najib al-Din al-Samarqandī, Muhammad ibn Ali
Najīb al-Dīn Abū Ḥāmid Muḥammad ibn ‘Alī ibn ‘Umar al-Samarqandī
Arabic
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Coll 6/78 'Italian propaganda amongst the Arabs.'
the British to combat reported Italian anti-British propaganda and disseminate pro-British propaganda in the Middle East and beyond. The file's principal correspondents are the following: His Majesty's Ambassador in Rome
ara,eng,fra
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Vol 59: Letters Inward
David Wilson
ara,eng
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'Pocket No. 15: Enclosure to Part III of Volume I of the Persian Gulf Gazetteer: Geneaological Table of the Abul Khail (’Anizah) Family of Buraidah in Qasīm'
John Calcott Gaskin in 1905 and revised by Captain Stuart George Knox
ara,eng
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Copy of Arabic plan showing site acquired by the British Government for Naval Base Juffair, Manama
Charles Dalrymple Belgrave and M Khalil. Location and extent of the land boundaries stated in a Register: No. 407
Arabic
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Kitāb al-filāḥah Kitāb al-filāḥah Ibn al-ʻAwwām, Yaḥyá ibn Muḥammad Ibn al-Awwam, Yahya ibn Muhammad
the Andalusian agronomist Abū Zakariyā Yaḥyá ibn Muḥammad ibn Aḥmad al-Ishbīlī
Arabic
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File 10/4 British relations with Ibn Sa`ud: Ibn Sa`ud's Najd Conference of Chiefs (Riyadh Conference), 1928; Ikhwan raids on Iraq; rebellion of Faisal Al Duwish
Faisal al-Duwaish [Faysal al-Duwaysh]
ara,eng
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'XXXI/2 Al-Bu-Ainain settlement at Qasr-as-Sabaih'
in return for the payment of a yearly allowance
ara,eng
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‘ENCLOSURES TO SECRET LETTERS FROM BOMBAY’, Vol 115
the British officials to describe the territory roughly corresponding to
ara,eng
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'File 6/18 I Arab and Persian Schools in Bahrain'
an agent. in Bahrain
ara,eng
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'Books, Periodicals, and Publications'
correspondence from British officials
ara,eng,fra
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Anonymous compendium of medicine
the surviving sections
Arabic
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Instructions for talisman making
two short notes on the equinoxes and solstices and on the associations between the seven geographical climes and the seven planets
Arabic
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Kitāb al-iqtiḍāb al-majmūʿ ʿalā ṭarīq al-masʾalah wa-l-jawāb The Book of Brief Compilation on the Way of Question and Answer Ibn al-Masīḥī, Saʻīd ibn Abī al-Khayr Ibn al-Christian, Sa`id ibn Abi al-Khair
Saʻīd ibn Abī al-Khayr ibn ʿIsá al-Ṭabīb al-Masīḥī
Arabic
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'File 6/10 IV Air Agreements'
various oil companies such as the Anglo Iranian Oil Company and the Arabian American Oil Company.
ara,eng
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'File 9/22 Opening of second bank in Bahrain: Imperial Bank of Iran'
the Foreign Office
ara,eng
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'File E-8 VII. Bin Saud'
an agent.
ara,eng
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'Handbook of Arabia. Vol. I. 1917'
Britain from the nineteenth century to 1971 to refer to the present-day United Arab Emirates.
ara,eng
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'ANNEXE B. SOUTH ARABIA ANGLO-TURKISH BOUNDARY. SHEET NO. 2'
contours and spot heights. This map is sheet two 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
ara,eng
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Three texts on mathematics
Arabic
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'14/115 XI B 54 Abu Musa Oxide'
Sharjah. The main correspondents are: India Office The department of the British Government to which the Government of India reported between 1858 and 1947. The successor to the Court of Directors.
ara,eng
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'File 20/1- IV Ceremonials and Celebrations: New Year's a King's Birthday's Celebrations.'
an agent. in Bahrain. Due to the War
ara,eng
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‘File 5/104 II,III Miscellaneous slave trade correspondence’
an agent. in Muscat
ara,eng
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[Sharḥ Fuṣūl Abuqrāṭ] [Explanation of the Hippocratic Chapters] Kīlānī, Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad Kilani, Ahmad ibn Muhammad
Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad ibn Qāsim al-Mutaṭabib al-Kīlānī
Arabic
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'File 27/1 Kuwait Trade Reports'
the Political Agent A mid-ranking political representative
ara,eng
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‘37 File 483 Memorandum on Bahrain; Major E L Durand’s Notes on the Antiquities of Bahrain’
last two reports is unclear. The second part of the volume contains correspondence relating to arrangements for the excavation of Bahrain’s tumuli. There are a number of letters dated 1879
ara,eng
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Sullam al-idrāk fī hayʾat al-aflāk The ladder of perception in the form of the spheres Riyāḍī Muhandis, Muḥammad ʿAlī ibn Khayr Allāh Mathematical engineer, Muhammad Ali bin Khair Allah
Muḥammad ‘Alī al-Rīyāḍī ibn Khayr Allāh Khān al-Muhandis ibn Luṭf Allāh Khān al-Muhandis
Arabic
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Geometrical texts related to Euclid's Elements
far the longest text in this manuscript was completed on 5 Jumādá II 1214/4 November 1799
Arabic
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[Ibn Razīn al-Tujībī Ibn Razīn al-Tujībī]
the Andalusian scholar Ibn Razīn al-Tujībī
Arabic
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‘Miscellaneous:– Payments of Military Pensions from the Bahrain Treasury and their Correspondence regarding’
the Agency An office of the East India Company and
ara,eng,fas
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'A HANDBOOK OF MESOPOTAMIA VOLUME 1 GENERAL'
ara,eng,fas,hye,kur,ota,syr,tur
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'4/1 Bahrain Finances 2'
an agent. in Bahrain by Charles Belgrave
ara,eng
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'File 22/6 I Kalba'
Britain from the nineteenth century to 1971 to refer to the present-day United Arab Emirates. in 1951
ara,eng
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'B Series. POLITICAL 8/1 (A Series 14/221) Correspondence Regarding the Shaikh of Dibba'
the Political Resident A senior ranking political representative
ara,eng
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'[Un-numbered file] Police cases'
the Baladyia
ara,eng
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'Letters inward and outward'
ara,eng,guj
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'Dispute Between Rulers of Muscat and Dubai Over Claims to the Village of Hatta'
Sayyid Faisal
ara,eng
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Khulāṣat al-ḥisāb summary of the calculation 'Āmilī, Bahā' al-Dīn Muḥammad ibn Ḥusayn Amili, Bahā al-Dīn Muhammad ibn Husayn
Bahā’ al-Dīn Muḥammad ibn Ḥusayn al-‘Āmilī
Arabic
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'File 8/4 Bahrain customs'
customs house officials before British-instigated reforms
ara,eng