'Selections from the Records of the Bombay Government' [‎24] (61/733)

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the latter part of the same century, it was reduced by the Generals
of Sultan Sulaiman the Sophi, and continued to recognise the authority
of this dynasty until its close in the early part of the succeeding or
eighteenth century, in the person of Shah Sultan Hussein. Sultan the
son of Suif next became possessed of the island, after a bloody and
obstinate resistance ; and retained the supreme authority until he was
driven out by Nadir Shah, under whose power it remained until his
death.
jUter this, during a period of fifty-seven years, it passed into the
hands of four different chiefs of districts on the Persian shore of the
Cmlf, at no great dtstance from each other. The first of these was
abara bin Yasir the Nasiri, surnamed Nasuri, Shaikh of Tahiri, who
e . " fourteen years; next, the famiiy of the Shaikhs of Abooshahar
Tab" , g overnment for thirty years; after them, Mahomed bin
Jabir, of the fam.iy of Haram Shaikhs of Aseeloo, for five years- from
whom, after a sanguinary contest, it reverted once more to the Shaikhs
o ooshahar, for e.ght succeeding years, when the Uttoobees wrested
since aikhS 0f AbOOShahar ' a " d "-e retained it eTer
The celebrated traveller Carsten Neibuhr gives the following more
r^r Unt ^ 111686 SUdden revolutions i" government of
" Within the last few years Bahrein has had many masters It once
possessed himself of Jt • j t • , x nnce ol Uman now
through theTn rv i'on ;ta i kh ,0 M e b PerS !, a, t f0r 9 SUm 0f
governor of it at the period ^ Majid, who was still
at his death succeeded by his Jon Iha"],-]" a T™ ^ rSia ' and WaS
principal fortress of the island had at this f . T - The c,tade1 ' or
commandant, on the part of' the Q i ■ '"f 0 ^ ncl an(;l different
Mahomed Kuli Khan who I 1 ' "' > 118 0 ers ' a ' one of whom,
charge, delivered 2 " f SU00eeded " former officer in ^
Majid, of Naband (Nabor), 0^^^ mce'Tf' h " Mahomed
Taki Khan, Beglerbeg orF^fedLerle 0 ^! ^d ^ ^
except the citadel, which the' eotZ^:^^