'Travels in Assyria, Media, and Persia, including a journey from Bagdad by Mount Zagros, to Hamadan, the ancient Ecbatana, researches in Ispahan and the ruins of Persepolis, and journey from thence by Shiraz and Shapoor to the sea-shore. Description of Bussorah, Bushire, Bahrein, Ormuz, and Muscat, narrative of an expedition against the pirates of the Persian Gulf, with illustrations of the voyage of Nearchus, and passage by the Arabian Sea to Bombay.' [‎406] (437/582)

HISTORY OF THE JOASSAMEE PIRATES.
On the rise of the reformed religion of Abd-ul-Wahab, when
Derryheea, the whole of Nedjed, and all the interior of Ammaan
had submitted to his doctrine, the sea-coast next became the
object of conquest and conversion, and the arms of the Wahabees
were consequently directed against Ras-el-Khyma as the seat of
the Joassamee Arabs, the only tribe in this part of Arabia who
had not yet submitted to their doctrines.
During three whole years, it is said, these irreligious sailors
resisted all the attempts that were made, both by the pen and
sword, to bring them over to the new doctrines and precepts,
held out to them as the only one which their own original faith
enjoined, or by the observance of which they could hope for
salvation.
The force of arms, however, at length prevailed; for as the
Wahabee power became more extended throughout the tented
deserts, in which it round its first proselytes, the chiefs and war
riors were able to direct all their strength to subdue the refractory
spirit of those, who had so long bidden successful defiance to their
exhortations and their threats.
The town of Ras-el-Khyma, with all its dependencies along
t le coast, therefore, submitted, and at the same moment that they
received the conquerors within their gates, they bowed submission
to the new doctrines which they taught, and swore fidelity to
such laws and injunctions as the most learned and holy of the
leaders might pronounce these doctrines to impose.
The tenets of Abd-ul-Wahab have been too often explained
to need a repetition in detail: they enjoin the worship of one
od, a belief in his prophets, among whom they admit of
raham, Moses, and Christ, as distinguished leaders, and hold
Mohammed to be the seal of them all; they consider the Koran
to be a sufficient guide for all the purposes of policy and morals,
and insist on the strictest observance of its maxims. It is thus
that the right of conquest over infidels, the promulgation of their
b y fire and sword ' and the perfect disposal of the lives and