"دليل الخليج. مجلد I. القسم التاريخي. الأجزاء Iأ و Iب. ج.ج. لوريمر ١٩١٥" [‎١‎٠‎٧‎٩] (١٧٨٢/١٢٣٤)

1079
up to the very walls, some consternation at first prevailed in Basrah.
The Wahhabis, however^ were encumbered with wounded and otherwise
in distress; and their foraging parties were quickly driven out of the
surrounding villages by Muntafik and Ka'ab tribesmen, who inflicted on
them further losses.
In 1807 a fresh attack of the Wahhabis on ^Iraq was apprehended, Appreheu-
and the Pasha of Baghdad moved out to Hillah to ward off any attempt Wahhabi
that might be made on Karbala or Naiaf. In June of 1807, with the attack,
1807
reluctant consent of the Pasha of Baghdad, the British Resident at
Basrah began to construct for himself a fortified residence at Gardilan
on the eastern side of the Shatt-al-^Arab opposite to Basrah *
In 1808 a force of Wahhabis appeared in the vicinity of Karbala, and The Waliha-
a large army under their banner was reported to be marching on from^Shifa-
Baghdad itself, where great anxiety for a time prevailed. The bazaars were thah and
closed, and even Turkish merchants were ordered to arm themselves and
reinforce the garrison; but the expected host did not arrive, and it was
afterwards stated that their departure had been prevented by internal dis
turbances in Najd. The raiders near Karbala, however, established them
selves in the Shifathah Oasis to the west of that town, blockaded
Karbala, invested Hindlyah (corresponding to the modern Tawairij),
and showed themselves at ■'Ain Said near Samawah; but Sulaiman
Pasha, hastening from Baghdad with a force, drove them from all these
places, and, after executing the principal man of Shifathah on account of
his refusal to ab jure Wahhabism, p returned in triumph to Baghdad, where
he arrived on the 15th of August.
About 1810 a plundering expedition was carried out by 'Abdullah, Wahhabi
son of Sa'ud, who penetrated to within a short distance of Baghdad. ia ^'
In 1812 Wahhabi influence was still sufHciently powerful on the Wahhabi in-
borders of "'Iraq to make it possible for Sa^ud's tax-gatherers to assemble Karbak,
the surrounding Bedouins and collect Zakat from them at Hindiyah near 1812.
Karbala.
Proceedings of the Wahhabis m the direction of Syria, 1803-14.
Flying raids were executed by the W^ahhabis during this period Commence-
on the confines of Syria; they began, apparently, with an incursion Wabbabi
by Hark,t a black slave of Sa'ud, between the years 1806 and 1808. on
—— Syria, about
* This seems to depend on the statement of Corancez (page 111), who gives, 1806,
however, a precise date.
t Hark may possibly be identical with the Hariq who in 1800 founded the Wabhabi
post at Baraimi in 'Oman.