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Notes to Chapter Two
11 The old name still survives in the alternative name, Tayma, for al 'Ain
(’Ain al Dhawahir); see Wilkinson, Origins, p. 71, and for spelling
Wilkinson, Wafer, p. 33, footnote 1.
12 See Wilkinson, J.C. “Arab Persian Land Relationship in Late Sasanid
Oman", in Proceedings of the 6lh Seminar for Arabian Studies, London,
September 1972, pp. 40-51, in particular pp. 45f.
13 In its widest possible meaning, the term al Bahrayn was used for the
area including the oases of al Hasa and Qatif, the peninsula of Qatar and
extending east along the coast to Ru’us al Jibal and south to the Rub 'al
Khali. In geographical terms Oman was the neighbour of al Bahrayn to
the east, the borderline being approximately identical with the edge
between the western mountain foreland and the sandy steppe. The
territory of the present day UAE was often called al Shamal (the North)
in Omani context, while the area to the west of Abu Dhabi town up to
the Qatar Peninsula was known as al Gharblyah (the western); see also
Miles, Countries, pp. 377ff, in particular p. 384.
14 The division of all 200 or more tribes of south-eastern Arabia in the Civil
War in the 18th century into Hinawi and Ghafiri stems almost certainly
from the antagonism between tribes of the two main divisions at the
time of their arrival in the area. Hinawi is to be identified with Qahtani
(Yamani) and Ghafiri with Adnani (Nizari).
15 See Wilkinson, Origins, pp. 72ff and map 3.
16 For this period of between two and three thousand years the climatic
difference was certainly only marginal, as the continuous practice to
irrigate with channels (falaj, pi. a/7a;) indicates.
17 See Lorimer, J.C., Gazetteer of the Persian Gulf, ’Oman and Central
Arabia, Calcutta 1908/15, vol. I Historical, vol. II Geographical and
Statistical; quoted as Lorimer, Geogr. and Histor. The population of the
Trucial Coast was then estimated at 72,000 settled and 8,000 beduin
people, Geogr. p. 1437. Although frequent reference is made in some
parts of the book to the Gazetteer, this is not considered as an infallible
document. However, it does represent a comprehensive collection of the
information on the Gulf, which was available to the British Government
of India during the first decade of this century. The copious data should
be considered a guide to assess proportions in the communities’
development — rather than taken at face value as statistics whose
precision frequently cannot be checked.
18 See Lorimer, Geogr., p. 408.
19 See Kelly, Eastern Arabian Frontiers, London. 1964 p. 36 from p. 52 of
Volume One of the UK Memorial, the full title of which is Arbitration
Concerning Buraimi and the Common Frontier between Abu Dhabi and
Saudi Arabia. Memorial submitted by the Government of the United
Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, 1955. It is in two
volumes and is henceforth quoted as UK Memorial I or 11.
20 See: Government of Abu Dhabi, Directorate-General of Planning
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