File 522/1922 Pt 7 'Bahrain: Persian claim to sovereignty; Persian Treaty negotations 1929-1930' [‎51r] (106/1126)

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in »Futuh-\il-Buiaanand Taqut in ^ma^aK-ul-Bulda ^ 1 state
that Maassar embraced Islam aid agreed, to pop the t, £a.icat n ; but
when a regular tax was demanded, the Bahrein population
abandoned Islam so that at the time of the death of Man&ar
there was no Museulman in Bahrein* !The writer The lowest of the four classes into which East India Company civil servants were divided. A Writer’s duties originally consisted mostly of copying documents and book-keeping. of the ^^ariMi-i-
Guaideh^ a ays in page 147 that the Governor of Bahrein embraced
Islam in the year 8 of the Hi4ra (6B9 A#B» )•
Charles soliauffer, the French Orientalist, states on
page £30 of the Commentary he wrote on the Iravel Narrative
of laser K'husrow that the name of the Bahrein *Mar£ebaa ,? was
Espiduh; it is at any rate Quite evident that there was then
a Governor in Bahrein representing the Sassanlaa Kings*
All other writers have written that the prophet sent
Ala ben Abdullah icha&rami to occupy Bahrein. Yaqut says in
” ? fua ^ am-ul -*Bul dan n that .Ala invited the inhabit in ts to embi*ace
Islam; that all of the Arabs and some of the Persians in
Bahrein accepted the new religion but that the people of the
towns composed of lews, Christians and aioroastrians made their
peace with Ala and the Koroastrians paid a tribute in money
to the prophet* It is evident that the Bahrein population
was composed at the outset of the Islamic invasion of Arabs
and Per slims; the collection of the treaties of Great Britain
with Persia and the book ”i?he Per aim Gulf” sake hints to this
end and the writer The lowest of the four classes into which East India Company civil servants were divided. A Writer’s duties originally consisted mostly of copying documents and book-keeping. of the latter states that the old inhabi-
tmts of the Bahrein Islands are believed to be composed
of Persians aid ia^abs. The religions of the islands during
the reign of the Uassanims were zoroastrian, Jewish and
Christian and the Arabs generally belonged to the latter two*
The He^r town, the capital of Bahrein was well known in old
Persia and there i b m old saying in Persian which says in the
case of an unnecessary and superfluous action '*to take dates
to