"دليل الخليج. مجلد I. القسم التاريخي. الأجزاء Iأ و Iب. ج.ج. لوريمر ١٩١٥" [‎٨‎٢‎٥] (١٧٨٢/٩٨٠)

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In July 1896 the Bani Hajir carried off some 3,000 sheep and a 1896.
number of camels belonging 1 to the Na ; im of Qatar ; Ibn-Rashid, how
ever, intervened, and in November he demanded that reparation should be
made by Shaikh Jasim to the Na'im, which was immediately done.
In 1897 Shaikh Jasim, acting on behalf of the people of Qatar, appears 1897^
to have informed the Mutasarrif that they could not afford to contribute
to a war fund opened by the Turks in connection with their war against
Greece.
In 1898, during a temporary absence of the Turkish gun vessel Disturbances
usually kept at Dohah, a small rising took place in which several Turks
and Arabs were killed. The reason of it appeared to be that the Arabs
considered a successful raid made by the Shaikh of Kuwait in April 1898
upon the Bani Hajir, who were under the protection of Shaikh Jasim,
to have been instigated by the Turkish authorities. After this affair
the garrison of Dohah was again strengthened.
In 190^ both Jasim and his brother Ahmad declined an invitation to 1902,
visit Hasa.
In September 1905 a Muhammadan Turkish subject was murdered at 1905.
Dohah by Shaikh Ahmad, the brother of Jasim, in mistake for a Jew,
the partner of the deceased, against whom Ahmad had a grievance; and
difficulties with the Turkish authorities at Basrah were at first appre
hended on account of this incident. Ahmad, however, on becoming aware
of his mistake, at once apologised to the Turks and tendered Rs. 800
as blood-money to the relatives of the murdered man ; but the latter
refused to accept compensation.
In 1906 it was reported that the Turkish garrison at Dohah was 1906,
nominally 200 men, but that it generally stood, on account of deser
tions, at about half that strength.
In November 1905, through a visit by Captain Prideaux, AdminiBtra-
Political Agent in Bahrain, much light was cast upon the adminis- Qatar, Wn
trative position in Qatar. It appeared that Shaikh Jasim, though 1905.
for five or six years he had been living in retirement at Lusail and had
nominally abdicated both the Qaim-Maqamship and the chief ship, was
still in reality ruler of Dohah and all its dependencies, and that nothing
of importance was done in Qatar without his being consulted. At the same
time his brother Ahmad, who discharged the active duties of the Qaim-
Maqamship and who was accordingly the medium in all dealings with the
Turks, had succeeded in acquiring a certain position of his own, and some
jealousy prevailed between him and Jasim. Semi-independent charge
of Wakrah was held by Shaikh Jasim's third son, 'Abdur Rahman. In