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'Gazetteer of the Persian Gulf. Vol I. Historical. Part IA & IB. J G Lorimer. 1915' [1187] (1342/1782)
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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sion of loyalty to the Porte and, most of all perhaps, to the difficulty of
expelling- him by force, acquiesced ; and Basrah and its dependencies must,
from this time until about 1669, be regarded as beyond their direct
control, Afrasiyab treated foreigners in his dominions with considera
tion, and trade flourished under his rule; he died apparently about the
end of 1624 or the beginning- of IBSo ; and he was succeeded by his son
Ali
Pasha
An Ottoman title used after the names of certain provincial governors, high-ranking officials and military commanders.
, who <f had intruded into the Government by force before hie
Father expired."
One of the first tasks that devolved on ■'Ali
Pasha
An Ottoman title used after the names of certain provincial governors, high-ranking officials and military commanders.
was the defence of
Basrah against the Persians when they threatened it in March 1625 ;
and the news of his confirmation in the Pashaliq, accompanied by a robe
of honour and a scimitar from the Sultan of Turkey, reached Basrah on
the 13th of May 1625 during the sojourn there of the traveller Pietro
della Valle, At some later period J Ali
Pasha
An Ottoman title used after the names of certain provincial governors, high-ranking officials and military commanders.
caused Qurnah, formerly
an open town, to be fortified.
In 1625 there was much unrest upon the western frontier of ■'Iran, Affairs on
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due to the behaviour of Mutlaq, surnamed Abu Rieh, and [of Nasir-bin- Najaf fron-
Mahanna, two principal Shaikhs of the desert who were at war with one
another; the former was the more powerful, being paramount chief of
some very large tribe# in the north ; but the latter was the nearer to ^Iraq,
and caravans ordinarily travelled from Basrah to Karbala and some distance
beyond it under his protection, for which they paid a high price. At the
taking of Baghdad by the Persians in 1623 Nasir had declared for the
Shah, while Abu Rish continued to support the Turks ; but Nasir soon
broke with the Persians, and in June 1625 he attempted, after impressing
into his service the members of a large caravan on its way from Basrah
to Aleppo, to drive the Persians out of Karbala. The garrison, however,
repelled his attack with loss. In the same month the traveller Pietro
della Valle, while encamped at Qasr-al-Akhaidhir near Shifathah, was
subjected to extortion by Shaikh Abu Talib, the son of Shaikh Nasir,
to whom his father, now old and retired from worldly affairs, had
committed all executive functions in the tribe. A few marches further
on Pietro della Valle entered the territories of Abu Rish, to whom also
he was obliged to pay toll.
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• The actual tribe to which either of these Shaikhs belonged cannot be determined.
It inay have been, in either case, the 'Anizah, the Bani Khalid or the" Northern
Sharamar. Probably both Shaikhs did not belong to the same tribe. From his
geographical position 't seems not unlikely that Mutlaq was head of the 'Aniah.
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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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- 'Gazetteer of the Persian Gulf. Vol I. Historical. Part IA & IB. J G Lorimer. 1915'
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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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