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Quarters
1. Ras Rumman 10. al-Hammam
2. al-Fadhil 11. Sangeki
3. Kanu 12. al- Awadiyyah
4. Suq 13. al-Dhawawdah
5. al-Shuyukh 14. Halah ibn Iswar
6. al-Na im 15. Halah ibn Anas The Ruler’s Palace
7. Bu Sirrah 16. al-Tilghraf (Bayt al-Shuyukh)/
8. al-Zarari a 17. al-Hura Old Municipality
9. al-Mukharaqah
Markets local produce
9a al- Ajam and meat
9b Laki
9c Mushbir Pearl Market
(Suq al-Tawawish)

4
5
6 7 9a
Jami
al-Mahzah

10
9
8 9b
Municipal
Garden
9c

Masjid al-Mu mim

Police Fort
(Qal ah al-Diwan)

4 The town of the pearl boom: Manama, 1926

the consolidation of clientele networks which bound the population to
merchants cum community leaders. Merchant patrons financed the
development of residential areas and the provision of services for the
population, including the establishment of mosques and of buildings for
ma’tam congregations. Immigrant communities were able to develop an