'Gazetteer of the Persian Gulf. Vol I. Historical. Part IA & IB. J G Lorimer. 1915' [1286] (1441/1782)
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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First
Turkish
expedition,
1798.
Sack of
Karbala by
the
wahhabis
and second
Turkish
expedition,
1&01—1802.
Attitude of
the Arab
tribes to the
Wahhabis
and apathy of
the Turkish
authorities,
1802.
on the history of Najd : in this place it will be enough to refer to some
of its principal incidents.
Before 1798 various attacks had been made by the Wahhabis upou
Turkish territory ; and in that year, even the town of Hillah having
begun to suffer from their depredations, a Turkish expedition marched
from Basrah, of which the objective was Dara'iyah, the Wahhabi capital
and the purpose nothing less than the reduction of Najd. This force^
which was under the command of 'Ali, Sulaiman
Pasha
An Ottoman title used after the names of certain provincial governors, high-ranking officials and military commanders.
's second Kehiyah.
the murderer and successor of Ahmad
Pasha
An Ottoman title used after the names of certain provincial governors, high-ranking officials and military commanders.
, turned back from Hasa after
a short and inglorious campaign ; and th^ result of the expedition was
merely a truce for six years, arranged at Thaj during the Turkish retire
ment on Basrah and subsequently ratified a L . Baghdad.
This truce, even, was not long observed ; and on the -ZOth April 1801,
a terrible disaster befell the Turks in the sudden seizure and complete sack
by the V\ ahhabis of the town of Karbala, a place regarded as sacred by
Shi'ahs and therefore by almost the whole Persian nation. Sulaiman
1 asha endeavoured to reply to the outrage by an expedition against
Dara'iyah, conducted this time not by a Turkish official but by Thuwaini.
the chief Shaikh of the Muntafik tribe ; but the result of this second
attempt was even less favourable than that of the firs", for not far beyond
Kuwait the commander was assassinated, whether through political
treachery or in consequence of some private grudge, and the leaderless
force was dispersed and partly destroyed by the Wahhabis. These
were the events that unnerved old Sulaiman
Pasha
An Ottoman title used after the names of certain provincial governors, high-ranking officials and military commanders.
, who in middle
age had defended Basrah bravely for a full year against thg whole force of
Persia, and who now, on learning of the calamity at Karbala, was said to
have exclaimed : It is not fit I should live longer."
1 lie attitude of a number of the Arab tribes of 'Iraq vas, in May
1802, extremely doubtful with reference to the Wahhabis. It was con-
sideied not improbable that the Khaza'il and the Shammar Toqah, who
had both suffeied much at the hands of the Turks, migat join the
Wahhabis, if the latter should attempt an invasion in force ; the loyalty
of even the Muntafik tribe had become open to question ; and the
Pasha
An Ottoman title used after the names of certain provincial governors, high-ranking officials and military commanders.
himself had enunciated it as a principle, that ff enfin il ne faut pas
compter sur les tribues arabes, qui ont toutes les yeux sui les
« Vehabes." The very extremeness of the danger begot a kind of apathy,
which caused the town of Hillah, though unmistakeably threatened by
the "W ahhabis, to be left unwalled and undefended ; and Mr. Harford
Jones, the British Resident at Baghdad, was constrained to remark in
addressing the Governor-General of India : u I fear Your Excellency
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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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