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'Gazetteer of the Persian Gulf. Vol I. Historical. Part IA & IB. J G Lorimer. 1915' [1521] (1676/1782)
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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to be guided bj thom in religious matters, but deprecated their inter
ference in affairs of state. Eventually a manifesto signed by some of
the Mujtahids and dated the 3rd of August 1903 reached Persia, in
which the molestation of foreign subjects was prohibited as unlawful, and
the Babi and liquor questions were described as matters within the
province of the civil authorities, about to be satisfactorily regulated,
but on the Hth September a document of a different character was
issued by certain of the fraternity, in the form of a bull of
excommunication directed against the Grand Vazir, the Atabaig-i-
A'zam, who was identified with the policy to which they objected.
Facsimiles of this paper, produced at Calcutta by a photographic process,
were shortly in circulation over the length and breadth of Persia ; and,
if they were not a direct cause of the Atabaig^s downfall, they at least
made his return to power impossible. It was even stated that, if the
obnoxious minister had not been dismissed, a similar sentence would
shortly have been pronounced against his royal master. In these pro
ceedings the Mujtahids seem to have allowed themselves to be made
the tools of the political enemies of the Atabaig ; but their motives
were probably patriotic.
At an earlier stage of the controversy the Mujtahids had attempted
to bring pressure to bear on the Shah through the Sultan of Turkey ;
but the Persian Government quickly borrowed this weapon from the
armoury of their critics, and, with the hope of bringing about their
expulsion from the Holy Cities, denounced the Mujtahids of Najaf
and Karbala to the Porte as friends of the British, The expedient was
skilfully chosen, and its effect was enhanced bj a prohibition which
the Mujtahids had rashly enacted, at the end of 1903, against the utse
of the Hail route to Makkah by Shr'ah Muhammadans during the con
tinuance of hostilities between Ibn Rashid and Ibn Sa'ud ; this order of
theirs was represented by the Persian Government to the Porte aw
taving been issued in the interests of the Shaikh of Kuwait and of " his
friends/' the British Government. A few months later the Russian
representative at Constantinople seems to have complained of the
dangerous activity of the Mujtahids^ agents in Persia and Central
Asia. Accordingly, in June 1904, some of the Mujtahids of Karbala
and Najaf were threatened by the Turkish authorities with deportation
to Madinah ; and a secret inquiry was instituted by the Turkish
authorities into their relations with foreign powers.
Alarmed by these proceedings, and weakened by the death in
December 1904 of their leader the Sharabiyani, whose funeral all but
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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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