"دليل الخليج. مجلد I. القسم التاريخي. الأجزاء Iأ و Iب. ج.ج. لوريمر ١٩١٥" [‎٧‎٩‎١] (١٧٨٢/٩٤٦)

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which, with a very few exceptions, he put the crews to death ; in short,
he created a reign of terror in the Gulf. In May 1811 Rahmah
made a piratical cruise of some importance, on which he was accompanied
by a fleet from the town of 'Ajman; but the star of his Wahhabi patrons
was now temporarily declining, and events soon occurred which obliged
him to become more circumspect. < ™ i • *
In 1811, the power of the Wahhabis in Eastern Arabia having been th ^ 7 ®^ b 0 ig
greatly weakened by events upon the western frontier of their empire, f r om Qatar,
Saiyid Sa'id of Masqat attacked them in Qatar by means of a naval expedi
tion, expelled their garrisons from Zubarah and Khor Hassan, and des
troyed the former of those two places by tire. The result appears to have
been the evacuation by the Wahhabis not of Qatar only but also of Bahrain,
where their governor of Hasa, Qatar and Qatif was taken prisoner, and the
restoration of the sovereignty of the Al Khalifah. Kahmah who re
presented the Wahhabi power at sea in this part of the Gulf, Jought a
desperate action with the fleet of the ^Utub and sustained a decided
reverse; and about this time, or soon after, he seems to have trans
ferred his headquarters from Qatar to Dammam on the coast of Hasa.
In 1813 Rahmah, whose respect for the British name was as inalter
able as his hatred for the ^Utub of Bahrain, unwittingly committed a
piracy on a Baghlah from Basrah freighted with horses belonging to the
East India Company ; but, on discovering the mistake, he made arrange
ments for forwarding the animals to Bombay, where they all eventually
arrived in safety.
Eemoval of Rahmah-bin-Jabir from Qatar and his proceedings until
the second British expedition against Ras-al -Khaimah, 1816-20.
In 1816, or possibly earlier, Rahmah somewhat suddenly disassociated Migration
himself from the Wahhabi cause and joined the tuler of Masqat. This
change of sides appeal 's to have been due not to inconstancy on h's Part.
but rather to the implacability of his resentment against the Utn b o 181tL
Bahrain, between whom and Saiyid Sa'id, formerly allies, enmity ha
now arisen; and Saiyid Sa 'id appears to have intended, had he been
successful in his attack on Bahrain in 1816, to set Rahmah-bm-Jabir in
the place of the Al Khalifah Shaikhs. The Wahhabis and the Qawasim,
as friends of the Al Khalifah, now became the enemies and the victims of
Rahmah; while the Wahhabi Amir, annoyed at Kahmah's desertion