"دليل الخليج. مجلد I. القسم التاريخي. الأجزاء Iأ و Iب. ج.ج. لوريمر ١٩١٥" [‎١‎٢‎١‎٧] (١٧٨٢/١٣٧٢)

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before this expedition against the Muntafik began, the Pasha of Baghdad
announced the deposition of 'Abdullah from the Shaikhship of the tribe
in favour of one Fadhal; but how matters actually ended is not clear.
Towards the end of 1773, communication between Basrah and Renewed
Baghdad was again interrupted, trouble between the Turkish Government
and the Arab tribes being, as before, the cause.
Difficulties of tlie Turks with the Ka'ab, 1757—73,
More serious troubles than these, however, were in store for the
Turks and also for the British, who rashly became their allies in the
quarrel with the KVab tribe of Qubban and Doraq, whose power, under
their Shaikh Salman or Sulaiman, was day by day increasing. The Ka'ab
were regarded at Basrah as being properly * Turkish subjects, and it was
asserted that they had been wont in the past to pay revenue to the Turks
for that portion, at least, of their territory which adjoined Qubban; but
the chief of the tribe had now begun -to play off Persia against Turkey,
at the same time withholding tribute from both countries, and also to
encroach on the government of Basrah by occupying villages and tracts
upon the Shatt-al-'Arab, even upon its western side. Throughout his
proceedings the Ka'ab Shaikh was careful to stand well with the Arab
notables of the Basrah neighbourhood, some of whom he detached from
the Turkish interest by bribery ; and, after the invasion of his country
b> Kaiim Khan, "Vakil of Persia, in 1757, he set about creating a fleet
of which the first vessel was launched in 1758.
In 1761, the Ka'ab Shaikh " having of late been guilty of many p- t * i
enormities/'the Pasha of Baghdad ordered 'Ali Agha, Mutasallim of TarkishT-'
Pasrah, to proceed against him. The Agha obeyed, marching by land ^sTtho
with his own troops, after they had been reinforced by others sent from Ka^ab! 1701.
Baghdad and by an Arab tribal contingent, to Qubban; and in June of (l2 '
that year, at the earnest request of the Turkish Deputy-Governor, Mr.
Douglas, the British Agent at Bandar 'Abbas, then inspecting Basrah,
sent the Company's vessel " Swallow" to co-operate with 14 Turkish
frankis m blockading Khor Musa, or one of its branches, in which gnme
of the enemy's armed boats were lying. Shaikh Salman took refuge
T^! 1,1318 WaSthe0pinion . of theTurk8and al80 of tbe British Agent at BasrlhiiT
]767, who may have been influenced by his Turkish surroundings; but'according to
ie uhr the original temtory of the Ka ah all lay in Persia, and only those of their
lands were m Turkey which they had subsequently seized from the Turks.