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'Gazetteer of the Persian Gulf. Vol I. Historical. Part IA & IB. J G Lorimer. 1915' [1063] (1218/1782)
The record is made up of 2 volumes (1624 pages). It was created in 1915. It was written in English. 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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of ills fatii
personal courage came lo be entertained. For several years after his
father s assassination he wore a secret coat of mail j during' his visits
to Makkah he caused himself to be surrounded by extraordinary
precautions ; at Dara^iyah he seldom left his house except on Fridays ; and
throughout his reign a private interview with him was difficult to obtain.
He showed some distrust of his brothers, and he allowed no power to his
sons except the eldest, 'Abdullah; but he made much use of his sons
in his military enterprises.
The position of Sa'ud was never that of an absolute or arbitrary General ad-
monarch ; it was rather that of a great Arab Shaikh, ruling by influence,
whose subordinate allies and subjects possessed a large degree of local h5bi Amir -
freedom, and even rights, that he could not with safety invade. The author
ity of the Amir was superior to all others but, only because he was recognised
as the visible embodiment of the Wahhabi principle; and the people,V
for this reason, submitted voluntarily to his guidance. The Amir was
careful to maintain, so far as possible, the hereditary power of families
devoted to the Wahhabi cause, but of those which were not loyal he
destroyed the intiuence by removing their chiefs to Dara'iyah and
substituting strangers in their place at home. In most cases new appoint
ments to positions of authority were made by local election, the result
of which the Amir merely confirmed. The Wahhabi dominions were
divided into districts of which the principal, in the time of Sa^ud, were
'Aridh-c?m-Hasa, Qasim, Jabal Shammar, the Haramain {i.e., Makkah
and Madmah), Hijaz (in the Bedouin acceptation of the hilly country to
the south of Taif), and Yaman : Bahrain, Qatar and 'Oman hardly, perhaps,
formed regular districts. The executive government in each division,
except in 'Aridh-fw^-Hasa which contained the capital and was kept
by Sa'ud in his own hands, was carried on by officials, generally no
doubt—as in the case of the Sharif Ghalib of Makkah—influential ^
hereditary chiefs ; and the principal duties of these executive governors
were, besides political vigilance in their charges, to attend to the
collection of the revenue and to furnish such military contingents as the
central government might require. In matters of law and justice,
however, the authorities were not the executive governors but Qadhis,
carefully selected and sent down to the divisions from Dara'iyah; and
from these, as from the governors, an appeal seems to have lain in all cases
to the Amir. In time of peace the Amir relied largely on the advice of
the family of the founder of Wahhabism, known as the Aulad-ash-
Shaikhwho seem to have formed in fact a sort of standing but
informal council of state.
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Theses two volumes make up Volume I, Part IA and Part IB (Historical) (pages i-778 and 779-1624) of the Gazetteer of the Persian Gulf The historical term used to describe the body of water between the Arabian Peninsula and Iran. , ’Omān and Central Arabia (Government of India: 1915), compiled by John Gordon Lorimer and completed for press by Captain L Birdwood.
Part 1A contains an 'Introduction' (pages i-iii) written by Birdwood in Simla, dated 10 October 1914. There is also a 'Table of Chapters, Annexures, Appendices and Genealogical Tables' (page v-viii) and 'Detailed Table of Contents' (pages ix-cxxx), both of which cover all volumes and parts of the Gazetteer .
Parts IA and IB consist of nine chapters:
- 'Chapter I. General History of the Persian Gulf The historical term used to describe the body of water between the Arabian Peninsula and Iran. Region' (Part IA, pages 1-396);
- 'Chapter II. History of the ’Omān Sultanate' (Part IA, pages 397-629);
- 'Chapter III. History of Trucial ’Omān' (Part IA, page 630-Part IB, page 786);
- 'Chapter IV. History of Qatar' (Part IB, pages 787-835);
- 'Chapter V. History of Bahrain' (Part IB, pages 836-946);
- 'Chapter VI. History of Hasa' (Part IB, pages 947-999);
- 'Chapter VII. History of Kuwait' (Part 1B, pages 1000-1050);
- 'Chapter VIII. History of Najd or Central Arabia' (Part 1B, pages 1051-1178);
- 'Chapter IX. History of Turkish ’Iraq' (Part 1B, pages 1179-1624).
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- 2 volumes (1624 pages)
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Volume I, Part I has been divided into two bound volumes (1A and 1B) for ease of binding. Part 1A contains an 'Introduction', 'Table of Chapters, Annexures, Appendices and Genealogical Trees' and 'Detailed Table of Contents'. The content is arranged into nine chapters, with accompanying annexures, that relate to specific geographic regions in the Persian Gulf The historical term used to describe the body of water between the Arabian Peninsula and Iran. . The chapters are sub-divided into numbered periods according, for example, to the reign of a ruler or regime of a Viceroy, or are arbitrarily based on outstanding land-marks in the history of the region. Each period has been sub-divided into subject headings, each of which has been lettered. The annexures focus on a specific place or historical event. Further subject headings also appear in the right and left margins of the page. Footnotes appear occasionally at the bottom of the page to provide further details and references.
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Foliation: The foliation sequence is circled in pencil, in the top right corner of the recto The front of a sheet of paper or leaf, often abbreviated to 'r'. of each folio. The sequence runs through parts IA and IB as follows:
- Volume I, Part IA: The sequence begins on the first folio with text, on number 1, and ends on the last folio with text, on number 456. Total number of folios: 456. Total number of folios including covers and flysheets: 460.
- Volume I, Part IB: The sequence begins on the first folio with text, on number 457, and ends on the last folio with text, on number 878. It should be noted that folio 488 is followed by folio 488A. Total number of folios: 423. Total number of folios including covers and flysheets: 427.
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- front, back, spine, edge, head, tail, front-i, i-r:iii-v, 1:130, 1:778, iv-r:iv-v, back-i, front-a, back-a, spine-a, edge-a, head-a, tail-a, front-a-i, v-r:v-v, 779:1098, 1131:1146, 1099:1130, 1147:1484, 1489:1496, 1485:1488, 1497:1624, vi-r:vi-v, back-a-i
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