"دليل الخليج. مجلد I. القسم التاريخي. الأجزاء Iأ و Iب. ج.ج. لوريمر ١٩١٥" [‎٧‎٥‎٩] (١٧٨٢/٩٠٢)

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Resident could not hold converse with " one so recently and so fearfully
polluted/'
Early in 1860 the Shaikh of Sharjah, \yj which term must be
understood at this tme either Shaikh Muhammad or Shaikh Khalid,
called upon the headnan of Hamiiyah to assist him in a land attack in
which lie was engageo upon the villages, then disaf ected, of K han and
Abu Hail. 'Abdur Rihman-bin-Saif was rash enough to respond by
proceeding to the scene of hostilities by sea with armed men and muni
tions of war and was ined $250 by order of the Political Resident.
This sum he duly disbursed on a demand for payment being preferred by
Commander Cruttenden.
Co-operation
of the head
man of
Hamriyah
with the
Shaikh of
Sharjah,
I860.
Shaikh Kialid-bin-Sultan, 1866-1868.
On the death of his father Shaikh Sultan in 1866 at the ripe age of
over 80 years, Shaikh Khaid, the murderer of his own nephew Muham
mad, succeeded to the Shakhdom of Sharjah, while 1 biahnn-bin-Sultan
proclaimed his independenc at Bas al-Khaimah. In May 1867, howe\er.
Shaikh Khalid made a suxcessfiil attack on Has-a-Khaimah, expelling
Ibrahim and re -incorporathg the town and its dependencies with the
principality governed from 5harjah. In 1868, as explained in the history
of Trucial 'Oman, Shaikh Khalid died of a wound received in single
combat with the Shaikh of A.bu Dhabi : he expired on the 14th ol Apn .
Ras-al-Khai-
mah separat
ed from, and
again reuni
ted with
Sharjah,
1866 to 1867.
Shaikh Salim-bin-Sultan, 1868-1883.
The place of the deceased Shaikh Khalid, whose mother was a
Qasimi, was taken by Shakh Salim, the son by a slave uoman o a
Sultan; and the adminisfation of Bas -al-Khaimah was at the same
time conferred on, or assuaed by, Shaikh Sahm s n^piew ,
'Abdullah, who in 1869 proclaimed himself independent of Sharjah and
so remained until the end of his days. _
In April 1869 the agent of the ^ahhabis at Baraimi came o
Sharjah, and. under cover of arbitrating in some dispu es u l ,i ^
proceeded to plot the imprisonment of Shaikh Salim, 1 transfer of
of his brother Shaikh Ibfahim at X \n
Shaikh Hamaid-bin-'Abdullah "wahlibi agent
affray however arose m the town ; and tiie deatn ji _ ^ -i i. Calim
who was struck by a bullet, put an end to these Watl j iabi Amir '
apparently with a view to disarming the resentment o favour of his
then went through the form of resigning the
brother Ibrahim; but the two remained in close relations, and
Separation
once more
of Ras-al-
Kbaimah
from Sharjah,
1869.
Pretended
resignation
of Shaikh
Salim, 1869»