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'File: E/4. Turkish mudirs of Wakra and Zubara on the Qatar Peninsular' [3r] (17/234)
The record is made up of 1 volume (102 folios). It was created in 16 Jan 1902-26 Nov 1910. It was written in English and Arabic. The original is part of the British Library: India Office The department of the British Government to which the Government of India reported between 1858 and 1947. The successor to the Court of Directors. Records and Private Papers Documents collected in a private capacity. .
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This file contains correspondence between British officials at Bushire and Bahrain, Dr Samuel Zwemer of the Arabian Mission, and Captain Kemp aboard HMS Phoenix .
These correspondence primarily concern the presence of Turkish local governors ( mudīr s) in the Qatar peninsula, in particular Yūsuf Beg at al-Wakrah and al-‘Udayd, as a part of a Turkish plan to establish a series of guardhouses along the eastern coast of Arabia.
The file contains details of John Calcott Gaskin's visit to Shaikh Jāsim bin Muḥammad Āl Thānī in retirement at Lusayl in 1903 (folio 47), as well as relations between Shaikh ‘Abd al-Raḥmān bin Jāsim and Aḥmad bin Muḥammad Āl Thānī. There are also details concerning the attempted assassination of Shaikh ‘Abd al-Raḥmān by a member of the Āl Bū ‘Aynayn tribe at al-Wakrah in December 1907, and subsequent relations between the Āl Thānī family and Āl Bū ‘Aynayn tribe in 1908.
There are incidental mentions of the 1903 outbreak of the plague in the Gulf, the Arabian Mission hospital at Bahrain (folio 15), the opening of a dispensary by the Agency An office of the East India Company and, later, of the British Raj, headed by an agent. in Bahrain (folios 18-19), and protests by pearl divers at the proposal of a Frenchman to dive with ‘modern appliances’ (folio 25).
- Extent and format
- 1 volume (102 folios)
- Arrangement
This file is arranged in approximately chronological order.
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Foliation: This file has a foliation number in the top right hand corner of each folio. The number is enclosed by a circle.
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- English and Arabic in Latin and Arabic script View the complete information for this record
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- IOR/R/15/2/27
- Title
- 'File: E/4. Turkish mudirs of Wakra and Zubara on the Qatar Peninsular'
- Pages
- front, front-i, 1r:1v, 1ar:1ev, 2r:20r, 20r:20v, 20v:27v, i-r:ii-v, 29r:33r, 33r:33v, 33v:55r, 55r:55v, iii-r:iii-v, 56r, 56r:56v, 56v:74v, 76r:78r, 78r:78v, 78v:88r, 88r:88v, 88v:91r, 91r:91v, 91v:101r, back-i, back
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- East India Company, the Board of Control, the India Office, or other British Government Department
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- Open Government Licence