"وضع باسعيدو" [و‎‎٢] (٩٢/٣)

in the neighbourhood of Bandar AVoas, or anywhere on
the Persian side of the GKilf, before the Afghan invasion
of Persia which began in 1720. Consequent on the
Afghan invasion in thai year the Arabs of the Trucial
Ooast (also described on this occasion as the y Muscateers w )
established themselves in Basidu in the island of Kishm,
in which they were attacked and defeated by a British
naval force in April 1727. But Nadir Shah of Persia in
1737 not merely overran the South Persian coast, and
so reimposed an effective Persian control over areas
such as the island of Kishm, but extended his conquests
across the Gulf and in 1737-8 occupied the Sultanate of
Muscat, from which Persia v/as expelled only in 1744.
4. In 1747 the Persian Governor of Bunder Abbas
and its dependencies entered into an alliance with the
Jowasimi Arabs of the Trucial Arab coast; consequent
on which those Arabs appear to nave established them
selves between 1750 and 1765 in various posts in the
island of Kishm. But they were expelled from Kishm
about 1765 and the other dependencies of Bandar Abbas
by Sheikh Abdulla, who had been appointed ruler of that
area by the Persian Vakil in S. Persia, and they
had not regained their position so late as 1780,
5. Prom the above it will be seen that there
appears to have been no Arab connection of importance
(as distinct from piratic raids) with the S. Persian
CoaBt, and with Inlands such as Kishm, at any rate for
a considerable period prior to 1720: that between 1720
and 1794 Arab invaders (apparently normally from the
present Trucial Oman and not from the Muscat Imarnate)
were established for varying periods the
total of which does not appear to have exceeded
some 20 years, in Kishm Island or in
Basidu/