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'Gazetteer of the Persian Gulf. Vol I. Historical. Part IA & IB. J G Lorimer. 1915' [1165] (1320/1782)
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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Mat ab was a mild and intelligent man ; but his amiable character did
not protect him from the ambition of his nephews Bandar and Badar,
sons of Talal, who assassinated him, probably in 1871. It was probably
during; the reign of Mat'ab that the Wahhabi Amir 'Abdullah-bin-Faisal,
having been expelled from power by his brother Sa'ud, for the first time
found a temporary asylum in J abal Shammar.
Assassination
of Mat ab,
1871.
bandar-bin-talal,
1871-72.
Bandar, after he had thus usurped the Amirship, took the young widow
of his murdered uncle to wife; and she bore him a son, 'Agar. To his subjects
it seemed that the vengeance of Heaven followed him; for cholera ravaged
the country in his day, and power and life were his only for a short twelve
months. Muhammad, the only surviving brother of the deceased Mat'ab,
took refuge at Riyadh, and for a short while he lived there under the
protection of Ibn-Sa'ud ; but ultimately, by Wahhabi mediation, he was
enabled to return to Hail and to resume his place there as manager of the
Baghdad-Makkah pilgrim route under the orders of his nephew the Amir.
The inevitable collision between the two relations was not long delayed.
In a quarrel outside the gates of Hail, which seems to have been unpre
meditated on the part of Muhammad, and in the presence of Badar and
Hamud, who had accompanied Bandar to the interview, the uncle stabbed
the nephew dead. Badar fled; Hamud joined Muhammad, with whom
there is reason to think he had from the first sympathised; and the
people of Hail remained passive.
muhammad-bin-'abdullah,
1872-97.
General history of Jabal Shammar under Muhammad-bin-
'Abdullah, 1872-97.
In this manner the power passed to Muhammad, the third and last
remaining son of 'Abdullah, the first Mahfudh ; for fate had willed that
until the elder generation of the family was exhausted the sway should
not fall permanently to any younger member. The fiist act of Muham
mad was one of sanguinary precaution. Except 'Asar, the infant son of
Bandar, and Naif, a son of Talal, whose lives were unaccountably spared,
all the male descendants of Talal, including Badar who had been captured,
were put to death along with their slave foster-brethren ; and others also
from whom danger was apprehended by the new sovereign, among them,
it is said, four sons of his own sister by one Jabbar, perished at his
accession.
A ccession of
Muhaminad
and murder
of the sons
Talal, etc.,
1872.
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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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