'File E5. Murder of Sheikh Selman bin Diaij and 25 others on the 3rd December 1900 at Deraya by the Behaih' [109r] (217/252)
The record is made up of 1 file (126 folios). It was created in 12 Dec 1900-19 Feb 1906. It was written in English and Arabic. 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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for Bajfirein# At the present* hovrever$ tlio CSxiof# apart
from Ms uniTillliignosa to adopt t^xia line of 9xroion # would
probably find it iinpoasible to eiri'orof. sucli a prohlMtioh
v/ithoTit onr Msistance^as his penuanent anied followers arc
so few in nurriber. Before leaving thia subject I xaentio^t
as inst^aioe of Sheikh that a few v/eeks
aco v?hen the KEdSHaalcaa of Katif was ^©arohii^g for all the
i^erabers of the A1 Iraliaiaiaad Sheiiih^ f^dl^* wit& a viow to
putting pressure upon then to deliver Ahaed bin Selmtm,the
son of one of the arrastod aen and a cousin by mrriag© of
the pirate leader fled to Bahrein for safety and reid^-ined
hero openly for a few d^s f thoW;;h he had disappuared again
before I heard of his visit# This xoan Kamd bin Taaui#
apparently has contrived to ingratiate hixuself with the
Chi of and is always given a welcorae 'to these Islands#
11 • To revert to the question of the Behaih bloods
feudal believe that ordinarily the ^ii^lest xaetliod of re
pressing such an affair is to extort a heavy guarantee or
a nunber of hostac^-s fron bo'Ui partiea for the future min-
tenanoe of the peaoe# In the oaae of Bahrain maah a course
is not necessary# as there is no likelihood of any of the
Behoih visiting Sheikh Slaa 1 » territories Miile the feud
l.asts# I would reoo c ...r. I # liovrever f tliat the Turkish Govemnent
be requested to take sorae auch action in regard to the
Behaih and that if they declare their inability to do 30
.^nd aIi»o mkm ary delay in paying- the oojapcnsa/tion^tixey
%
s'nouia be tpld that in tJio olZHsuostaaoea doclino acs'
longer to rococnize tho euberdlaatlffla of the iAhaliaran
tribtia to tiu. Eaaa CJovuiTOoent*Rmi th»,t we will tak# our
ovm iaeaaxiros for doaling vdth thaa ilireot, I believe that
by an effective blockade of the l^thaharaa and Katar Coasts
for oOiae ijontlis,so a» to prevent all Bedouin cabling to
Bahrein or ^oin^ to the pearl-b > jx!cs we could cause a very
heavy pecuniary loas 'bo the tribes and would probably re
duce- them to a nore genuine subndssion thf\n has ever been
done before#
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This file contains correspondence between British officials at Bahrain and Bushire; Captain Oldham on board HMS Lapwing ; Shaikh ‘Īsá bin ‘Alī Āl Khalīfah, ruler of Bahrain; and the kaymakam (Ottoman governor) of al-Qaṭīf.
These correspondence concern the murder in 1900 of Salmān bin Di‘aj Āl Khalīfah, cousin of Shaikh ‘Īsá, together with some twenty-five others, at the hands of the ‘Behaih’ section of the Āl Murrah tribe while on their annual hawking trip on the mainland of Eastern Arabia at al-Darayah, some thirty to forty miles south of al-Qaṭīf.
The file contains details of the murder itself (folio 7), as well as subsequent dealings with Turkish officials and the Āl Thānī family in order to avert revenge attacks (‘blood feud’) by the Āl Khalīfah family (for example, folio 45) between 1902 and 1906. There are incidental references to the outbreak of plague in the Gulf in 1903 (folio 76).
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- 1 file (126 folios)
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Foliation: This file has two foliation numbers in the top right hand of each folio. The primary number is enclosed by a circle and begins on the first page. The secondary number is not enclosed by a circle and begins on the first page of text.
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- 'File E5. Murder of Sheikh Selman bin Diaij and 25 others on the 3rd December 1900 at Deraya by the Behaih'
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- front, front-i, 2r:3v, 6v:14v, 19r:22v, 28v:29v, 30v:95v, 96v:125v, back-i, back
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