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Fatḥ al-ḥayy al-qayyūm sharḥ rawḍat al-fuhūm Fath al-Hayy al-Qayyum Explanation of Rawdat al-Fahum Sunbāṭī, Aḥmad ibn ʻAbd al-Ḥaqq Sunbati, Ahmad ibn Abd al-Haqq
Aḥmad ibn Aḥmad ibn ʿAbd al-Ḥaqq al-Sunbāṭī
Arabic
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al-Mughnī fī tadbīr al-amrāḍ wa-maʿrifat al-ʿilal wa-al-aʿrāḍ Al-Mughnī in the management of diseases and knowledge of illnesses and symptoms Saʿīd ibn Hibat Allāh ibn al-Ḥusayn Saeed bin Hibatullah bin Al-Hussein
Abū al-Ḥasan Saʿīd ibn Hibat Allāh ibn al-Ḥusayn
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'File 53/75 (D 156) Shaikh Khazal's Claim against Kuwaiti Merchants'
a number of Kuwaiti merchants to Shaikh Khaz‘al bin Jābir al-Ka‘bī
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File 1355/1917 Pt 2, 4-5 'Arms Traffic Convention.'
the League of Nations. The Convention covers the following subheadings: Export of Arms and Ammunition
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'File 1/7 I Office Orders'
the Political Agency An office of the East India Company and
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'File 9/42 Holloway Bros, Dubai'
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Ṣan‘at al-arghīn al-zamarī The workmanship of the Zimri organ Mūrisṭus Maurustus
turns to weep
Arabic
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'File 4/14 I Bahrain Development'
an increased level of oil revenue being received by the state. The correspondence discusses the intended direction of this expansion
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'File 18/3 Application of Indian Arms Act to Bahrain'
the issue of a proclamation
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'File 17/9 Government Property: Bahrain Toshakhana Articles and Returns'
Britain from the nineteenth century to 1971 to refer to the present-day United Arab Emirates.
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'File 6/4 Stores for the Bahrain Municipality; Municipal Tax and Dues'
an agent. at Bahrain
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www.qdl.qa
Undetermined
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Three treatises on archery and horsemanship
Abū Muḥammad ʿAbd al-Raḥmān Aḥmad al-Ṭabarī
Arabic
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A very useful and valuable message whose author is not known.
Qudrat Allāh al-Marandī al-Ādharī
Arabic
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'File 6/2 Foreign Interests: Discontinuance of American Consulate at Muscat'
an agent. and Consulate in Muscat to the Political Residency An office of the East India Company and
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'1/C Volume II Miscellaneous'
Iraq tribes and Najd counter-raids
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Untitled alchemical treatise Democritus
tabulated descriptions of the four elements
Arabic
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Kitāb al-tadhkirah fī al-hay’ah Book of Remembrance in the Authority Ṭūsī, Naṣīr al-Dīn Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad Tusi, Nasir al-Din Muhammad ibn Muhammad
Naṣīr al-Dīn Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad al-Ṭūsī
Arabic
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al-Nujūm al-zāhirāt fī al-ʿamal bi-rubʿ al-muqanṭarāt The shining stars at work with quarter arches Wafāʿī, ʿAbd al-ʿAzīz ibn Muḥammad Wafai, Abdul Aziz bin Muhammad
ʿAbd al-ʿAzīz ibn Muḥammad al-Wafāʿī
Arabic
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Kāmil al-ṣināʿah al-ṭibbīyah The Complete Medical Industry Majūsī, ʻAlī ibn al-ʻAbbās Majūsī, Ali bin Abbas
ʿAlī ibn al-ʿAbbās al-Majūsī al-Arrajānī
Arabic
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'File 1/6 I Appointment, Transfer etc. of Political Residents and Gazetted Officers Serving under him in the Persian Gulf: Correspondence re'
replies in Arabic with English translations. The file also records notifications of the postings of some Political Agents
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'File 1/5A II Menial Establishment: Appointment, Leave, Dismissals etc.'
an agent. of members of the menial establishment
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Two short texts on astronomy
Shams al-Dīn Muḥammad ibn Aḥmad al-Khafrī al-Kāshī
Arabic
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History of Arab Literature
the Scottish author Samuel Smiles
Arabic
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'File E.2. Turkish Activities on the Mainland Adjacent to Bahrain: (i) Qatar; (ii) Zakhnuniya Island; (iii) Hawar'
Sir Edward Grey of the Foreign Office
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'File 13/10 Arms facilities for Shaikh Mubarak'
land. The file contains correspondence
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'File 53/83 VII (D 147) Kuwait Iraq Smuggling'
Iraqi Customs and Police Forces. Primarily
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Four treatises on astronomy
Muḥammad Muḥsin ibn Muḥammad Ṣāliḥ ibn Muḥyī al-Dīn al-Dawrī
Arabic
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Jāmiʿ li-mufradāt al-adwiyah wa-al-aghdhiyah A collection of vocabulary 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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'File No. E/18 V. O. HEARING OF CASES AND TRIAL OF PERSONS BY WRONG COURT.'
an Iranian man who requested that his son be tried by the Political Agency An office of the East India Company and
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‘File XXIX/1 RISING OF IMAM OF NIZWA MAY 1913’
the 'rebels'. The Political Resident A senior ranking political representative
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Kitāb ʿajāʾib al-aqālīm al-sabʿah The Book of Wonders of the Seven Regions Ibn Saʿīd, ʿAlī ibn Mūsá Ibn Sa`id, Ali ibn Musa
Abū al-Ḥasan ʿAlī ibn Mūsá ibn Muḥammad ibn ʿAbd al-Malik ibn Saʿīd al-Maghribī al-Andalūsī al-Gharnāṭī Nūr al-Dīn
Arabic
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The end of questioning and wishing in learning equestrian works. al-Ḥanafī
Muḥammad ibn ‘Īsá ibn Ismā‘īl al-Ḥanafī al-Aqṣarā’ī
Arabic
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'File 12/4 (1 A/17) Persians on the Trucial Coast'
Britain from the nineteenth century to 1971 to refer to the present-day United Arab Emirates.
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Historical Realities of Maritime Principalities
Admiral Ismaʻil Sarhank
Arabic
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File 2902/1916 ‘Treaties and Engagements between the British Government and the Chiefs of the Arabian Coast of the Persian Gulf’
the Government of India in 1919 and comprise: the Trucial Treaties to January 1906
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'File 1/A/42 Palestine disturbances.'
pro-Palestinian groups
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‘File 41/1 Licences for Arms carried by Nakhudas’
the nakhudas of boats on the Arab coast of the Gulf. Correspondents in the file include the Political Agent A mid-ranking political representative
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Coll 27/9 ‘Passports. British Protected Persons. Travel documents for persons proceeding to, and for natives of, certain British Protectorates and Arab states.’
year. This is placed at the back of the correspondence.
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'File B/6 Shell Trade: Exporters of Shells'
the Agency An office of the East India Company and
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‘File 7/9 Unauthorised flights by RAF’
British aircraft. The principal correspondents in the file are the Political Agent A mid-ranking political representative
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Maqalah-'i avvalī az Kitāb-i Uqlīdas, the first article of Euclid's book Euclid
the mathematician Euclid of Alexandria
Persian
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'File 4/30 Activities of Shaikh Subah al Nasir As Sabah'
the Political Agency An office of the East India Company and
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www.qdl.qa
Undetermined
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'File 9/10 1. Levy Corps Sepoy running amok; 2. Disbandment of Levy Corps; 3. Formation of armed Police Corps'
a sepoy Term used in English to refer to an Indian infantryman. Carries some derogatory connotations as sometimes used as a means of othering and emphasising race
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'File 1/A/5 III ADMINISTRATION. QATAR AFFAIRS.'
an agent.
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'File 6/23 Communism (Including Soviet Broadcasts, Anti-Communistic Policy and Stalinism, etc)'
the Foreign Office and sent to British diplomatic posts throughout the Middle East including the Political Agency An office of the East India Company and
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'File No. E/9 V. O. Correspondence regarding diving matters, the rules and regulations formed by the Bahrain Government for Rakbah and Gaffal etc.'
divers from Oman and Kuwait regarding their work in Bahrain. These were sent to the Political Agency An office of the East India Company and
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'File 8/22 Muscat State Affairs. Khasab: Sheikh Hassan Shihuh'
a group of armed Baluchi men. The main correspondents are the following: the Political Agent A mid-ranking political representative
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'File 19/109 IX (C 82) Bahrain - Relations with other Powers'
Bahrainis in the Hejaz
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Vol 187 1853/54 Persia; Squadron
Arnold Burrowes Kemball
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Two treatises on the sizes and distances of the celestial bodies
different copyists. Front flyleaf i was a pastedown
Arabic
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'14/164, 14/166 B 22, CLAIM OF HASSAN SAMAIAH FOR LOST PROPERTY ON ABU MUSA. 1910'
Shaikh Sagar bin Khalid of Sharjah against Hassan bin Samaiyah for the loss of horses on Abu Musa. Correspondents include the Residency An office of the East India Company and
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Risālah fī mulk al-‘arab wa-kamīyatihi A message about the king of the Arabs and its quantity Kindī Canadian
the philosopher Ya‘qūb ibn Isḥāq al-Kindī
Arabic
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www.qdl.qa
Undetermined
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[Answer to a question on a Sufi saying] Anonymous
an anonymous individual 'on the meaning of the Sufi saying "he who knows the secret of predestination has become an apostate"'
Arabic
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'File 11/46 Publicity in the Persian Gulf'
an agent. in Muscat. The correspondence discusses British Government propaganda efforts
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'File 19/166, 168 (C 25) (1) Nejdis and Persians (2) Mehdi Al Jishi'
Shaikh Isa bin Ali Al Khalifa.
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Kitāb al-ta‘dīl fī al-hay’ah Book of Amendment in the Authority Maḥbūbī, ʿUbayd Allāh ibn Masʿūd Mahboubi, Ubayd Allah ibn Masoud
ʿUbayd Allāh ibn Masʿūd al-Maḥbūbī al-Bukhārī al-Ḥanafī
Arabic
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'Political'
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‘Ajā’ib al-makhlūqāt wa-gharā’ib al-mawjūdāt The wonders of creatures and the strangeness of existences Qazwīnī, Zakarīyā ibn Muḥammad Qazwini, Zakaria ibn Muhammad
Zakarīyā ibn Muḥammad ibn Maḥmūd al-Qazwīnī
Arabic
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‘File 12/11 Piracy. (1) Alleged piracy in Muscat territory of boom belonging to Ibrahim bin Juma Doi, merchant of Muharraq Bahrain (2) Jolliboat No. 1495 BN belonging to Mohamed bin Amin of Muharraq reported missing since 2 June 1935’
the Political Agent A mid-ranking political representative
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Nihayat al-ikhtiṣār fī ‘ilm al-farā’iḍ The end of the abbreviation in the science of religious duties Ibn al-Labbān, Muḥammad ibn ‘Abd Allāh Ibn al-Labban, Muhammad ibn Abdullah
Abū al-Ḥusayn Muḥammad ibn ‘Abd Allāh al-Faraḍī al-Baṣrī
Arabic
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Letter from Abbas Mirza to the President of the Board of Control, Charles Watkin Williams-Wynn, and a Translation of the Letter
an Act of Parliament in 1784 to supervise the activities of the East India Company.
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'File A/2 (4A II) Slavery: cases received from Muscat for investigation'
an agent. in Muscat. Case number 1 is a straightforward case
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Persian Gulf Affairs
the British officials to describe the territory roughly corresponding to
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‘File XXIX/3 THE IMAM’S RISING 1913-1920 ATTACK ON GARRISON AT BAIT-el-FALAG1914.’
members of the Bani Battash tribe at the picquet at Ruwi near Bait al-Falaj where a number of sepoys Term used in English to refer to an Indian infantryman. Carries some derogatory connotations as sometimes used as a means of othering and emphasising race
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'File [XVIII/10] Drainage of malarial pond; report on `Malaria in Muscat' by Maj Clifford A.Gill (Indian Journal of Medical Research, 1916-17); anti-malaria campaign'
the Omani government with the aid of the British Political Agency An office of the East India Company and
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'File 11/32 Royal Commission on Palestine'
the Secretary of State for the Colonies on 24 November 1938
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‘File 86/2 XII (C 54) Bahrain Oil’
the Bahrain Petroleum Company
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Risālat al-ḥudūd Letter of Borders Avicenna Avicenna
Abū 'Alī al-Ḥusayn ibn ʻAbd Allāh
Arabic
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'File 22/15 Dubai-Abu Dhabi Boundary Dispute'
an agent. in Bahrain
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'File B/4 Flag flying by Wonckhaus, Gray Paul and other Companies'
steamship companies in Bahrain
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'File 26/94 (F 26) Mohammerah; Shaikh Khazal's offer re: building of Ahwaz Consulate'
Moin ut-Tujjar that the land belongs to him. Also contained in the volume is the response to Sheikh Khazal's [Khaz‘al Āl Ka‘bī] request to purchase rifles from the British government. Folios 16 and 125a are sketch plans of the proposed site.
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Two mathematical treatises
Arabic
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File 2/5 XII 'Ownership of HH Shaikh of Kuwait's Date Gardens in Iraq'
the heirs of the former owners of the Al Faddaghiyeh
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'File 22/12 Situation and Diba'
the minority Qawasim One of the ruling families of the United Arab Emirates
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'14/111 B 13. Trucial Chiefs. Report on British relations with and increasing our influence over. 1901 - 1902.'
Britain from the nineteenth century to 1971 to refer to the present-day United Arab Emirates. 1873 - 1901 and a table in Arabic and English of the towns and villages on the 'Oman coast' with population figures.
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'File 1/1 ARMS TRAFFIC Vol 1'
Britain from the nineteenth century to 1971 to refer to the present-day United Arab Emirates.
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File 9/18 Succession Proceedings: cases of the estates of deceased British subjects from November 1925
the Political Agent A mid-ranking political representative
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'File 61/14 XVI (D 67) Relations between Nejd and Iraq'
Ibn Sa’ud's people. Also of note are several extracts and summaries of newspaper articles about the situation
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'File 36/106 III Control of Motor Vehicles in Bahrain'
an agent. in Bahrain from local merchants
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'File X/2 Bin Saood, Koweit [Kuwait] & Ibn Rashid'
Captain Leachman of the Royal Sussex Regiment in 1912
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Coll 30/110(5) 'Trucial Coast Oil Concessions: Umm-Al-Quwain Concession.'
Britain from the nineteenth century to 1971 to refer to the present-day United Arab Emirates. ) Limited concerning the agreements
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