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Fihrist kutub al-shaykh al-raʾīs Index of the books of Sheikh Al-Ra'is Jūzjānī, ʻAbd al-Wāḥid Jawzjani, Abd al-Wahid
his student Abū ʻUbayd ʻAbd al-Wāḥid ibn Muḥammad al-Jūzjānī
Arabic
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Coll 17/2 'Arabia (Yemen). Relations between Iraq & Yemen. Treaty of Friendship.'
General Taha Hashimi
ara,eng
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Euclid's book on heaviness, lightness, and measuring bodies one by another.
Thabit ibn Qurrah
Arabic
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Coll 30/84 'PASSPORTS & VISAS: INCLUDING PERSIAN REFUSAL TO VISA BRITISH PASSPORTS ENDORSED FOR KOWEIT AND BAHRAIN.'
the Iranian authorities was later exetended
eng,fas
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'File 23/15, 19 I (D 89) Mesopotamia - General'
a Kurdish tribal force near Aqrah in 1919
ara,eng
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'Personal Narrative of a pilgrimmage to Al-Madinah and Meccah. Vol. II'
Captain Sir Richard F Burton
ara,eng
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‘File 16/61 Complaints from the Public’
an agent. in Bahrain: complaints from individuals over ration cards issued by the Manama Municipality
ara,eng
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‘File 7/3 Scope and functions of F/Lt. Finch at Sharjah’
the Political Resident A senior ranking political representative
ara,eng
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Letter No. 448: William Newnham, Chief Secretary to the Government, Bombay, to David Wilson, Resident in the Persian Gulf, Bushire
referring the Imaum to Wilson
ara,eng
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'File 6/17 II Proclamations and Public Notices issued by the Bahrain Government'
the Government of Bahrain. The notices are mostly in Arabic with brief or full translations in English given for many. They are concerned with a wide range of matters relating to boating
ara,eng
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'File 1/13 II Recess of the Political Agent and the Assistant Political Agent'
the Political Agent A mid-ranking political representative
ara,eng
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Three fragments of a medical manuscript
an unfoliated blank flyleaf. Each section is defective at beginning and all but the last also at the end with no indication of authors or titles. Contents:
Arabic
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'Muscat Tariff Treaty'
Watts
ara,eng,fra
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Qawl fī mas’alah ‘adadīyah mujassama A statement about a three-dimensional numerical problem Alhazen Ibn al-Haytham
Abū ‘Alī al-Ḥasan ibn al-Ḥasan ibn al-Haytham
Arabic
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'File 53/47 (D 43) Kuwait Water Supply'
Shaikh Mubarak Al Sabah
ara,eng
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‘File 29/18i I Food Supplies – TEA & COFFEE’
Britain from the nineteenth century to 1971 to refer to the present-day United Arab Emirates. sheikhdoms
ara,eng,fra
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Vol 166: 1850 Persia
Lieutenant-Colonel Samuel Hennell
eng,fas,fra
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Talkhīṣ al-miftāḥ Summary of the Key Kāshī, Jamshīd ibn Masʿūd Kāshī, Jamshid ibn Masoud
Ghiyāth al-Dīn Jamshīd ibn Masʿūd ibn Maḥmūd al-Kāshī
Arabic
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'Air Agreements'
ara,eng,fra
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'[Un-numbered file] Export of Currency notes from BAHRAIN'
merchants
ara,eng,fas
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Copies and Translations of letters in Persian sent to Lewis Pelly.
Nawab An honorific title
eng,fas
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A Ceremonial Illuminated Letter in Persian and aKharita
Abdur Rahman Khan
eng,fas
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Risālat al-mabdaʼ wa-al-maʻād The Message of the Principle and the Resurrection Avicenna Ibn Sina
Abū 'Alī al-Ḥusayn ibn ʻAbd Allāh
Arabic
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Kitāb fī misāḥat qaṭʿ al-makhrūṭ al-mukāfī A book on the area of sections of a parabolic cone Ibn Sinān, Ibrāhīm Ibn Sinan, Ibrahim
Ibrāhīm ibn Sinān ibn Tābit ibn Qurrah
Arabic
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al-Juz’ al-awwal min kitāb al-masā’il The first part 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 4/11 I Bank for Kuwait'
al-Bank al-Arabi [Arab Bank] is also discussed. The correspondence contained in the file consists of messages exchanged between British officials
ara,eng
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'File 9/2 I Bahrain Reforms: Finances of the Bahrain Government'
Daly in December 1923
ara,eng
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'Confidential 86/14-ii B.47 PETROLEUM CONCESSIONS LTD. BAHRAIN'
the Shaikh of Qatar
ara,eng
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‘File 12/2 Accident between S.S. “Bandra” and a Dhow on the 12th August 1929, in the Bahrain Harbour.’
the British India Steam Navigation Company
ara,eng
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Manual of therapeutics
Abū Bakr Muḥammad ibn Zakarīyā al-Rāzī
Arabic
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Maqālah mustiqṣāh fī al-shakl al-hilālīyah A surveyed article in the crescent form Alhazen Ibn al-Haytham
Abū ‘Alī al-Ḥasan ibn al-Ḥasan ibn al-Haytham
Arabic
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al-Zīj al-Shāmil Comprehensive marriage
the author of al-Zīj al-ʻAlāʼī to pass al-Būzjānī's observational data off as his own The present text is identical with the first ten bāb s of a zīj attributed to al-Mufaḍḍal ibn ʿUmar al-Abharī
ara,fas
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[Tafsīr Sūrat al-Falaq Interpretation of Surat Al-Falaq] Avicenna Ibn Sina
Abū 'Alī al-Ḥusayn ibn ʻAbd Allāh
Arabic
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Scientific and Philosophical Compendium of Aḥmad ibn Sulaymān Ghūjārātī (Aḥmad ibn Sulaymān Gujarati)
Aḥmad ibn Sulaymān Ghūjārātī
ara,fas
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'File 12/3 I MAIL SERVICE - MUSCAT & GWADUR'
an agent. launch
ara,eng
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'File 86/1 I (D 73) Eastern and General Syndicate - Proposed Oil Concession in Kuwait'
the Eastern and General Syndicate Limited for oil concessions in Kuwait
ara,eng
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Maqālah fī al-marāyā al-muḥriqah bil-dā’irah An article on burning mirrors in the circle Alhazen Ibn al-Haytham
Abū ‘Alī al-Ḥasan ibn al-Ḥasan ibn al-Haytham
Arabic
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al-Qānūn fī al-ṭibb The Law in Medicine Avicenna Avicenna
Abū ‘Alī al-Ḥusayn ibn ‘Abd Allāh
Arabic
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'File 82/27 VI (F 87) Qatar Oil'
ara,eng
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'File No. E/13 V. O. Correspondence Regarding Administration of Foreign Estates.'
the Bahrain Sharia Court to the Political Agency An office of the East India Company and
ara,eng
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Kitāb fī sanat al-shams bil-irṣād A book on the year of the sun with meteorology Thābit ibn Qurrah al-Ḥarrānī Thabit ibn Qurrah al-Harrani
Abū al-Hasan Thabit ibn Qurrah al-Harrani
Arabic
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'File 6/7 Allowances to Al Khalifah family'
Shaikh Hamad bin Isa of Bahrain [Shaikh Ḥamad bin ‘Īsá Āl Khalīfah] to members of his ruling Al Khalifah family. The correspondence is between the Shaikh
ara,eng
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'File 14/5 Correspondence regarding Postal arrangements at Shargah and Dubai'
the Qāsimī tribe from Ras al Khaima. )
ara,eng
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'File B/2 Oils and Minerals, Bahrain'
numerous incumbents during the period covered by the file)
ara,eng
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'File 2/5 II SHAIKH’S DATE GARDENS'
the Shaikh of Kuwait
ara,eng
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Register of legal documents
an agent.
ara,eng
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'1/1 Volume II Kuwait Saudi relations'
the King of Saudi Arabia
ara,eng
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‘File 16/19 Bahrain Sports Club’
the Ruler of Bahrain
ara,eng
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www.qdl.qa
Undetermined
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'21/5 QATAR HOSPITAL'
the American Mission and the possibility of funding from the Government of India based on the scale of that provided for medical facilities at Dubai
ara,eng
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'File 1/13 I Major Head:- Political. Sub:- Head:- Persian pretensions to Bahrain.'
the Political Agent A mid-ranking political representative
ara,eng,fas
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‘File 16/44 Holidays observed by the Bahrain Government and other local offices. and their working hours and other changes in their personnel’
an agent. of office closures
ara,eng
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'VOL. B. 60. CONFIDENTIAL 86/14 - vi. BAHRAIN UNALLOTTED AREA.'
the Bahrain Petroleum Company
ara,eng
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Ḥall al-mūjiz Solution to the summary Āqṣarā’ī, Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad Aqsarai, Muhammad ibn Muhammad
Jamāl al-Dīn Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad al-Aqṣarā’ī
Arabic
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'File 4/5 Kuwait State: Shaikh of Kuwait, Status of and Salutes for'
an agent. in Kuwait
ara,eng
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Fawā’id al-Jamālī fī uṣūl al-handasah The benefits of al-Jamali in the principles of geometry Samarqandī, Muḥammad ibn Ashraf Samarkandi, Muhammad bin Ashraf
Shams al-Dīn Muḥammad ibn Ashraf al-Ḥusaynī al-Samarqandī
ara,fas
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'Muscat Tariff'
Watts
ara,eng,fra
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'Messrs Gray Paul and Company's claim against Muhammad Ibrahim ibn Saif'
Muhammad Ibrahim bin Saif to a number of debtees including Gray Mackenzie and Company. The discussion in the volume relates to the circumstances of the debt and bankruptcy
ara,eng
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'QATAR SUCCESSION'
Dr G F N Anderson
ara,eng
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'File 9/2 Pearling'
the British
ara,eng
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'File 6/34 Fazal Hussein, clerk, State Police - Discharge of'
the Ashraf Brothers that Fazal Hussein owes them money
ara,eng,urd
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'File 73/7 IV (D 25) Anglo-Turkish Negotiations'
the British and the Ottoman Turks. Included is correspondence relating to Percy Cox's attempts to obtain Sheikh Khaz‘al's and Sheikh Mubarak's agreement to the draft agreement
ara,eng,fra
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'File 10/3 V Qatar Oil Concession'
Britain from the nineteenth century to 1971 to refer to the present-day United Arab Emirates. and the Sultanate of Oman
ara,eng
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Risālah lil-shaykh al-raʼīs Abī ʻAlī ibn ʻAbd Allāh ilá Abī Rayḥān Muḥammad ibn Aḥmad al-Bīrūnī fī jawāb masāʼil anfadhahā ilayhī A letter from the chief sheikh, Abi Ali bin Abdullah, to Abi Rayhan Muhammad bin Ahmed Al-Biruni in an answer to questions posed to him by Avicenna Ibn Sina
Abū 'Alī al-Ḥusayn ibn ʻAbd Allāh
Arabic
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'File 9/6 I Arms & Ammunition. Rules and Regulations re- import of arms and ammunition into Foreign Countries'
the Zanzibar Government' in English and Arabic
ara,eng
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'File 9/10 A II Exports of gold and silver from Bahrain - Weekly statements submitted by bullion brokers'
the bullion brokers operating in Bahrain
ara,eng
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Kitāb Arshimīdas fī ‘amal al-binkamāt Archimedes’ book on the work of the binkamāt Archimedes
columns marked to indicated the 24 hours of the day
Arabic
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Enclosure in Letter from Henry Willock to the Secret Committee of 16 Apr 1822
the Prince to Persia free of charge. An English translation of the letter can be found in IOR/L/PS/9/69/97. The letter was enclosed in the letter from Henry Willock
Persian
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'File 6/8 Visits to India and England etc. by Rulers, Shaikhs and other members of Al Khalifah Family (and friendly correspondence)'
members of the ruling Al Khalifah family of Bahrain. Many of the papers are open letters of good offices
ara,eng
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The Ideal Way to Shed Traditions and Embrace First Principles
Nūr al-Ḥasan b. Ṣiddīq b. Ḥasan Khan
Arabic
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Kitāb Thāwudhūsīyus fī al-masākin The book of Theodosius in the dwellings Theodosius Theodosius
Theodosius of Bithynia
Arabic
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The Secrets of Metaphor in Rhetoric
al-Jurjani
Arabic
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Qawl fī ḍaw’ Qul in al-Daw' Alhazen Ibn al-Haytham
Abū ‘Alī al-Ḥasan ibn al-Ḥasan ibn al-Haytham
Arabic
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'File 2/2 VI Kuwait-Iraq Smuggling'
some of those who were attacked
ara,eng
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Letters to Lewis Pelly from local rulers and shaikhs, with translations in English.
individual tribes
ara,eng,fas
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'B.11 668-II Sirri Island'
the Qāsimī tribe from Ras al Khaima.
ara,eng,fas
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'File 10/20 Enquiries re: cement'
an agent. provided statistics in response. The enquiries were then discussed in correspondence
ara,eng
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Taḥrīr al-Majisṭī Taḥrīr al-Majisṭī Tūsi, Naṣīr al-Dīn Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad
Ḥunayn ibn Isḥāq al-‘Ibādī
Arabic
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'File E-8 VI. Bin Saud'
him
ara,eng
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'File 82/1 IV (F 79) Anglo Persian Oil Company Arab Side (Kuwait, Bahrain, Nejd)'
Major Frank Holmes
ara,eng
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'No 413 Vol 19. Revised Commercial Treaty with Muscat'
Sultan as to non-cession of his dominions
ara,eng