"دليل الخليج. مجلد I. القسم التاريخي. الأجزاء Iأ و Iب. ج.ج. لوريمر ١٩١٥" [‎١‎٠‎١‎٩] (١٧٨٢/١١٧٤)

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the appointment of Shaikh Mubarak by Imperial Irade to the Qaim-
Maqamship of Kuwait; the Shaikh's name began to appear in the
official almanac of the Wilayat, and his correspondence with Basrah to
be carried on, under that style; and an annual allowance of 150 Karahs
of dates was assigned to him, which was subsequently, it would seem,
commuted into a cash salary of about £300 a year.
Besides the constant danger from his own relations. Shaikh
Mubarak had before long to face a wide but ineffectual combination
contrived by Yusuf Bin-Ibrahim of Dorah during his visit to
Bahrain in the summer of 1897. In September of that year it was
reported that Jasim*bin-Muhammad, the A1 Thani Shaikh of Dohah
in Qatar, was making preparations for an attack on Kuwait by land and
sea in conjunction with the Shaikh's nephews, and was endeavouring
to draw Ibn-Rashid into the scheme and to detach the 'Ajman tribe
from Shaikh Mubarak. In the beginning of November this attack,
though discountenanced by the Turks, seemed to be on the point of
execution; but eventually it did not take place. On the other hand
the Shaikh of Kuwait inflicted some loss on the Bani Hajir tribe,
who were among the adherents of the Shaikh of Dohah ; and early
in 1898 a small rising against the Turks took place at Dohah, which
was attributed to a belief that the attack by the Kuwait Shaikh on the
Bani Hajir had been instigated by the Turkish authorities.
In November 1898 the Naqib of Basrah was sent by the Turks to
arrange a settlement between the two Shaikhs; but his mission was a
failure.
By these and other events the attention of the British Government
was gradually attracted to Kuwait; and an opinion began to gain ground
among British oilicials that the connection of the Turkish Government
with Kuwait was less close than, in recent times, had generally' been
supposed. An absurd rumour which obtained currency in Palace circles
at Constantinople in 1896, that the murder of his brothers by Mubarak
had been instigated by the British Resident in the Persian Gulf, led
to enquiries being made by the British Embassy in the Turkish capital;
and these showed that there were persons, even there, who asserted
Kuwait to be entirely independent of the Porte. At the end of 1896,
the case of the "Haripasa" piracy being then under consideration,
it was suggested that the Shaikh of Kuwait, for reasons described
in the history of Turkish 'Iraq, should be held accountable; but this
proposal did not commend itself to the British Ambassador at
Constantinople. Sir P. Currie thought that the Shaikh of Kuwait,
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