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File 1855/1904 Pt 3-4 'Kuwait'
the Shaikh of Kuwait [Mubārak bin Jābir Āl Ṣabāḥ] to the British Government of land on the foreshore of Kuwait at Bunder Shweikh [Bandar Shawaykh]. Part 4
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'File XXXVI/1 CEREMONIALS, HONOURS & REWARDS. - SALUTES. 1887-1926.-'
a high-ranking British colonial representative
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‘File 16/40 Horses belonging to the Political Agent Bahrain –Correspondence ref:’
the King of Nejd and Hejaz
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‘File 7/10 Mishaps to R.A.F. aircraft’
Britain from the nineteenth century to 1971 to refer to the present-day United Arab Emirates.
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'File no. E/22 Claim of Muhammad ibn Abdullah ibn Hasan al Bu A'yeneh of Askar, Bahrain.'
a Saudi Arabian resident in Bahrain called Muhammad bin Abdulla bin Hasan Al-Bu ‘Ayenen to the Political Agency An office of the East India Company and
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'File 0216 Dispute over hoof odor'
an agent. at Sharjah
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'File 36/3 Visit of U.S. Minister in 'Iraq'
American officials based in Iraq. Correspondence on folios 1-86 relates to visits made to Bahrain by Paul Knabenshue
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'File 13/3 Arms Traffic'
British officials to refer to local sailing vessels in the western Indian Ocean. involved in arms trading in Muscat
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'File 6/13 Foreign Interests: Seizure of Arab Dhows by Persians'
them. The Arabic language material in the file consists of a letter sent to the Political Agency An office of the East India Company and
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Ṭarīqat Ibn Sīnā min Kitāb al-milal wa-al-niḥal The method of Ibn Sina from the Book of Mills and Bees Shahrastānī, Muḥammad ibn ʻAbd al-Karīm Shahrastani, Muhammad bin Abdul Karim
Tāj al-Dīn Abū al-Fatḥ Muḥammad ibn ʻAbd al-Karīm ibn Aḥmad al-Shahrastānī
Arabic
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'11/9 AMIR OF DHAHRAN'
Abdul-Aziz [‘Abd al-‘Azīz bin ‘Abd al-Raḥmān bin Fayṣal Āl Sa‘ūd
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‘File 16/41 Miscellaneous. Horses belonging to late Sir Hugh Biscoe – Correspondence ref:’
the King of Nejd and Hejaz
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Anonymous treatise on the linear astrolabe
Sharaf al-Dīn Abū ‘Alī al-Ḥasan ibn ‘Alī ibn ʿUmar al-Marrākushī
Arabic
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‘File 29/18 vol. iii TEA FOR BAHRAIN, EAST SAUDI ARABIA AND QATAR’
the Government of India
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'File 0425 Copies of Agreements, Concessions etc'
the Qāsimī tribe from Ras al Khaima. ]
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Al-Kāmil fī ṣan‘at al-asṭurlāb al-shimālī wa-al-junūbī wa-‘ilalihuma bi-l-handasah wa-al-ḥisab Farghānī, Ahmad bin Muhammad Farghānī, Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad
Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad al-Farghānī
Arabic
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'File 3/3 BOOKS ETC: ARAB DESERT LAW'
Lieutenant-Colonel Harold Richard Patrick Dickson
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al-Yaḥyāwīyah fī ḥubb khayr al-barīyah Al-Yaḥyāwīyah fī ḥubb khayr al-barīyah Al-Yaḥyāwīyah in love with the best of creation
the scribe ʿAlī ibn Muḥammad al-Ḥāḍir ibn al-Ḥaydar
Arabic
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'14/165, 14/170 (1) B.I. Agent’s difficulties at Debai (2) Troops at Dibai B 20’
the Residency An office of the East India Company and
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'Reports of K'
American oil companies to compete for an oil concession in Qatar. The file contains correspondence includes letters and reports written by 'K'
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File 18/2 'Koweit Customs'
the Kuwait Customs authorities. The Arabic correspondence in the file consists mainly of an exchange of letters between the Political Agent A mid-ranking political representative
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‘File 4/8 (2/4a) Article regarding Bahrain-U.K. Treaty; Dismissal of Ali bin Hussain, Secretary to the Manama Municipality’
Bahraini subject Ali bin Salim that Britain and Bahrain were negotiating a new 25 year treaty which would recognise the independence of Bahrain under the sovereignty of the existing ruling family
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'File 6/70 Census of Bahrain population'
an agent. in Bahrain
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An Agreeable Discussion of the History of Egypt and Cairo
Jalal al-Din al-Suyuti. It covers the history of Egypt
Arabic
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'File 19/109 II (C 17) Bahrain: Relations of Chief with other Foreign Powers'
foreigners in Bahrain
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Anonymous treatise on horsemanship and the arts of the lance
an anonymous master of the royal barracks for his fellow teachers of trainee mamluks
Arabic
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Letter from His Excellency Lieutenant-Colonel Justin Sheil CB, Her Majesty's Minister Plenipotentiary and Envoy Extraordinary at the Court of Persia, Tehran to Lieutenant-Colonel Samuel Hennell, Resident in the Persian Gulf, Bushire
which he came to possess Mr Tasker's watch. Sheil states that Hajee Mahomed Jaffer's reply is neither an admission nor a denial of his having disposed of the watch to the Agent at Shiraz
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‘File XXVIII/3 Internal Politics and Relations with Oman Correspondence re rebellion of 1895 and subsequent warning to shaikhs against any further attack on Muscat.’
British subjects. Drafts of the notification are passed between the Sultan
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'Handbook of Mesopotamia. Vol. I. 1918'
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'File 24/2 Oil concessions, Volume II'
Britain from the nineteenth century to 1971 to refer to the present-day United Arab Emirates.
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'File 14/5 Visits of German Agents'
an agent. at Muscat
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'File 9/7 Shipping, Naval & Marine: Muscat Lighthouse and Leading Light'
an agent.
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'File 6/29 Purchase of Studebaker Car for H. E. Shaikh Hamad Al Khalifah'
Shaikh Hamad bin Isa Al Khalifah [Shaikh Ḥamad bin ‘Īsá Āl Khalīfah] of a Studebaker car. The correspondence is between the Political Agency An office of the East India Company and
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File 2182/1913 Pt 9-10 'PERSIAN GULF AND ARABIA NEJD-HEJAZ AFFAIRS 1919'
year. This is placed at the back of the correspondence.
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'File 6/13 Electric Lighting Manama'
an agent. in Bahrain
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'File 29/33 PRICE CONTROL'
the Political Agent A mid-ranking political representative
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'File No. 14/5 MINERAL DEPOSITS IN DHOFAR'
Harry St John Bridger Philby and Bertram Sidney Thomas in Dhofar and their possible connection to the 'gold mines of Ophir'. The file features the following principal correspondents: the Political Agent A mid-ranking political representative
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'File 12/8 (1 A/31) Anti-British activities of Persians'
a Persian officer. This correspondence includes messages sent to the Arab rulers of the Gulf from the British concerning the incident and replies
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Kitāb aghdhiyat al-marḍá The Book of Food for the Sick Najīb 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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Vol 87: Translation Book, 1834 (Native Letters Inward)
Native Agents which often also contain
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Sharḥ Khulāṣat al-ḥisāb Explanation of the summary of the account al-Muhandis al-Lahūrī, Luṭf Allāh ibn Aḥmad Al-Muhandis Al-Lahuri, Lutfullah bin Ahmad
Luṭf Allāh al-Muhandis ibn al-Ustādh Aḥmad al-Mi‘mār al-Lahūrī
Arabic
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'File 31/6 (4/7 II) EDUCATION OF YOUNGER MEMBERS OF AL KHALIFAH'
Britain from the nineteenth century to 1971 to refer to the present-day United Arab Emirates. and Qatar.
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'File 38/11 P. C. L. Planes'
the Qāsimī tribe from Ras al Khaima. ]
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'Correspondence with Accountant General Central Revenues'
the following Government of India Departments: the Accountant-General
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‘File 16/66 Gifts and souvenirs to shaikhs’
British political officials to members of the ruling family of Bahrain
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Anonymous treatise on mathematics
Muḥammad Amīn ibn Mirzā Muḥammad Faḍl Allāh Kāshānī
Persian
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Correspondence of the Masters of Eloquence
the famous modern authority on the Arabic language Muhammad Kurd ‘Ali. It focuses on the writings of the eighth-century literary master ‘Abd Allah ibn Muqaffa’ and contains shorter pieces by other writers whom Kurd ‘Ali judged to be exemplars of style
Arabic
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'Description of Arabia according to observations and research carried out in the country itself'
Carsten Niebuhr
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'File 8/27 III 1). H.H. THE SULTAN. 2. SULTAN's VISIT TO INDIA AND EUROPE.'
the Sultan of Muscat and Oman [Sa‘īd bin Taymūr Āl Bū Sa‘īd] to Japan
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File 4673/1919 Pt 1-3 ‘Bahrein Mission’
year. This is placed at the back of the correspondence.
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'File 6/89 Water supply for Manama'
an agent. in Bahrain
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Letter from Harford Jones, Resident at Bagdad, to Henry Dundas, President of the Board of Control
an Act of Parliament in 1784 to supervise the activities of the East India Company. . The letters contain intelligence
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Affairs in Hyderabad
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'File 6/5A Miscellaneous correspondence with the Adviser to the Government of Bahrain'
an agent. in Bahrain
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'File 6/22 Correspondence regarding Finger Print training to Bahrain Government servants'
the file) due to lack of government revenue caused by the collapse of the pearl trade. Advice is sought by the Political Agent A mid-ranking political representative
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'File 8/67 MUSCAT STATE AFFAIRS: MUSCAT – OMAN TREATY.'
the Political Agent A mid-ranking political representative
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Kitāb Tarākīb al-anwārBook of Compositions of Lights Ṭughrāʾī, al-Ḥusayn ibn ʿAlī Tughra’i, Al-Hussein bin Ali
Muʾayyad al-Dīn abū Ismāʿīl al-Ḥusayn ibn ʿAlī al-Ṭughrāʾī
Arabic
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Treatise on heat Ṭūsī, Naṣīr al-Dīn Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad
Naṣīr al-Dīn al-Ṭūsī
Arabic
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Three short texts related to Euclid's Elements
al-Ṭūsī himself. Contents:
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‘19/3 HER EXCELLENCY LADY WILLINGDON’
the Viceroy and Governor-General of India
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Uṣūl al-tarākīb The origins of compositions Najīb 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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'In re estate of the deceased Sa'd bin Abdulla Musabahi'
an agent. at Bahrain between 1911 and 1912. Later correspondence and notes relate to the handling of the case in 1911 and the examinations of the deceased individuals' account books
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Kitāb al-masā’il The Book of Issues Qaṣrānī, Ya‘qūb ibn ‘Alī Qasrani, Yaqub ibn Ali
Abu Yusuf Ya‘qūb ibn ‘Ali al-Qarshī al-Qaṣrānī
Arabic
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'File II/1 Appointment of Political Agents'
the outgoing and incoming Agents
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'Shaikh Abdulla's Visit to London, 1919-1920'
King George V at Buckingham Palace
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'File 6/26 Agricultural improvements in Bahrain'
the Shaikh
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'File 38/1 Vol I, P. C. L. Exploration'
Britain from the nineteenth century to 1971 to refer to the present-day United Arab Emirates.
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Circular N. 5445 from the Secretary to the Government at Bombay Castle, Henry Lacon Anderson, to the Resident in the Persian Gulf
the Governor General of India in Council announcing the victory gained by the Allied Forces over the Russian troops in the Battle of Alma.
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Tales of Heroes and Great Men of Old
the British Tract Society
Arabic
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al-Zīj al-mukhtār min al-azyāj The chosen marriage from the marriages Abū al-ʿUqūl, Muḥammad ibn Aḥmad Abu Al-Uqul, Muhammad bin Ahmad
Abū al-‘Uqūl Muḥammad ibn Aḥmad al-Ṭabarī
Arabic
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'File 19/165 III (C 24) Bahrain Reforms'
an agent. in Bahrain
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‘File 41/2 Arms traffic’
Britain from the nineteenth century to 1971 to refer to the present-day United Arab Emirates.
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'File No. E/23 Attestation of Documents. a Powers of Attorney.'
an agent.
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Tashrīḥ al-aflāk Anatomy of the spheres ‘Āmilī, Bahā’ al-Dīn Muḥammad ibn Ḥusayn Ameli, Bahaa al-Din Muhammad ibn Hussein
Bahā’ al-Dīn Muḥammad ibn Ḥusayn al-‘Āmilī
Arabic
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'File 19/2 II Tour. The Honourable the Political Resident in the Persian Gulf'
Britain from the nineteenth century to 1971 to refer to the present-day United Arab Emirates. in February and March 1933
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Kitāb Qarābādhīn Book of Qarābādin Najīb 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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Coll 30/148 'Qatar: Question of ownership of Zubarah.'
the British Government that the Shaikh of Bahrain's claims to Zubarah 18th-century town located 105 km from Doha. could not be substantiated
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'Assurances, Undertakings and Agreements, Etc., Made by Certain Chiefs and Khans of Southern Persia with the British Government and Certain British Trading Companies'
the Government of India Press
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'File 53/1, 3, 5, 6 A (D 1) Kuwait [Kuwait] affairs, 1896-1901'
Ali bin Ghulam Reza
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'File 8/61 MUSCAT STATE AFFAIRS: FUJERAH.'
the British
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