"دليل الخليج. مجلد I. القسم التاريخي. الأجزاء Iأ و Iب. ج.ج. لوريمر ١٩١٥" [‎١‎٤‎٤‎٦] (١٧٨٢/١٦٠١)

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Some of the most influential men at Busrah,—Sheikh Suliman Zeheyr Kassim
Chelebi, the Nukeeb and his brother. Syed Mahomed Syed,-who are on bad term
with the Muteserif, Saeed Effendi, are accused of encouraging and protecting th,
robbers, with a view to obtaining the Muteserif's removal This I do not suppose to
be the case; but it is at the same time certain that were Sheikh Suliman and the
Nukecb so inclined, they could easily put a stop to the robberies.. I believe, indeed, that
they have offered to do so, if allowed to bring two hundred armed men from Zobeyr
but the Muteserif, being more afraid of them than of the robbers, has declined their
services.
Internal administrative arrangements in Turkish Iraq
1861—76
1 semi-independent Pashaliq of Basrah, of which the creation in
18o0 was obviously connected with the Turko-Persian frontier delimitation
proceedings of 1849—5^ seems not to have survived very long the cause
which brought it into existence. The date of its abolition is uncertain;
but by 1863 Basrah had been reduced to the status of a Qaim-Maqamliq,
that is, to a district forming the charge of a Qaim-Maqam or civil official
of the same grade as that of Mutasallim under the older system of nomen
clature, which had now passed away. Munib Pasha, the Qaim-Maqam
of Basiah in 1863, was, as we have already seen, subject to the orders of
the Pasha of Baghdad. In the years immediately following 1863, as
has been related above, Namiq Pasha endeavoured to extend the limits
of Basrah at the expense of the Muntafik Shaikhdom, but failed. One
of his designs in the same connection must have been realised, however,
not long after his departure; for by 1872 the Muntafik Shaikh of the
day, Nasir Pasha, had become Mutasarrif of Suq-ash-Shuyukh and to be
discharging the duties of a Turkish official.
In 1871, as described in the chapter on the historv of Hasa, that
distant and detached region in Eastern Arabia was occupied and annexed
to luikioh Iraq by Mid-hat Pasha and became a Mutasarriflik or civil
division.
In 1874, a rebellion broke out in Hasa, in the suppression of which
valuable services were rendered to the Porte by Nasir Pasha, Muntafik
Shaikh and Turkish Mutasarrif of Suq-ash-Shuyukh, who seems to have
been, for an Arab chief, a man of unusual capacity and enlightenment,
asir Pasha s local influence being considered sufficient to make the
coipoiation of the Muntafik districts with Basrah a safe proceeding, if
only the conditions were acceptable to the Shaikh himself, advantage was