'Gazetteer of the Persian Gulf. Vol I. Historical. Part IA & IB. J G Lorimer. 1915' [‎782] (937/1782)

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Petty
disturbances
in Shamai-
liyah,
1893-96.
Fresh revolt
at Fujairah,
1900-01.
Intemntion
of the
British
political
authorities,
1902.
In 1893, at the instigation as was supposed of the Shaikh of Abu
Dhabi, an attack was made by some of the Shihuh on the village of Hair
in Shamailiyah, where they killed a number of the inhabitants and destroyed
the fort. In the following year the Shaikhs of Sharjah and Ras-al-Khaimah
would have rebuilt Hair; but the Shihuh interposed, and their obstruc
tion was for the time successful. In 1896-97 a Qasimi was murdered
at Fujairah, and the Shaikhs of Sharjah and Ras-al-Khaimah undertook
an expedition against the place, which resulted in the payment of blood-
money.
At length in 1900 the Shaikh of Ras-al-Khaimah died, and that place
and its dependencies were re-absorbed in the Shaikhdom of Sharjah, governed
by Saqar-bin-Khalid. Shamailiyah was still held in two fiefs, a northern
and a southern, by Rashid-bin-Ahmad and Hamad-bin-Majid, the eons
of the original grantees, of whom the latter derived a revenue worth
about $2,000 per annum from Fujairah, including 150 skins of dates,
12 ewt. of wheat and §10 in cash.
About the beginning of 1901 the Shaikh of Sharjah sent Ilamad-bin-
'Abdullah, the headman of Fujairah, to treat, as bis representative, with the
Shihuh in regard to a murder which had occurred at Dibah ; but Hamad
apparently profited by the occasion to form a private understanding with
the Shihuh, and shortly afterwards he showed signs of disaffection.
Negotiations followed, in which the Shaikh of Dibai took part; but they
were inconclusive; and Ahmad-bin-Majid at Ghallah, distrusted by the
headman of Fujairah and out off from the assistance of his relation the
Shaikh of Sharjah by the hill fort of Bithnah, was placed in a dangerous
predicament.
The combinations among the chiefs of Trucial 'Oman to which this
crisis gave rise are described in the general history of that region.
The reason, or at least the pretext, of the headman of Fujairah for
his revolt was, as subsequently explained by himself, that Shaikh Saqar-
bin-Sultan had in the first instance failed to obtain redress for the
robbery of certain natives of Lingeh, residing at Fujairah, by 'Awamir
and Bam Qitab Bedouins; and that, when Hamad in these circumstances
had sought the good offices of the Shaikh of Dibai, the Shaikh of Shariah
taking offence at his action, had employed the Mazari' and Jalaiilah
Bedouins to harass Fujairah and had obliged the Jalajilah to divert their
trade from Fujairah to the port of Ghallah.
19 Shaikl1 Saqar-bin-Khalid having assembled a body of
« a 1 0 " Fu j airah ' a » d a disposition having
lEad ln-r^WMM ^ 1? ■ i!khB o£ I1ibai and'Ajm&n to assiet
Kemhail , r at , t '- n , 11011 of the British Resident, Colonel
visit to uaid t fT- 11 ™ ^ ^ with a view to itB settlement. A
Sre whom T"^ b J YT 1 Cox ' the " A Sent at Masqat,
mTdia not tTf 0 ° nte "! ied that th e agreement executed bv him 1 in
r kno w l^thet P llV 0 f tTeVhS ^ 10
form • the Shaikh nf tvi „• ^naiKn ot bhrajah in anv shape or
the Sultan of 'Oman, sViy^pSbin il ? te ^ rence
mg support which the headman o^F • • , Tl T ^ 0m afford "
Masqat in order to procure. ' U3aira h had Sone m person to