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Notes to Chapter Three

December 1921 Khalid, then Ruler of Sharjah, asked the permission of
the British Government to have it repaired; the real reason for this
request was that he wanted the British Government to influence the
overlord of the Shihuh, the Sultan of Muscat and Oman; see IOR
R/15/1/239: "Trucial Coast Affairs 1920-22”.
26 The Sultan of Muscat, on a visit to the Musandam Peninsula in
November 1932, “called together the leaders of the Kumzarah and
Shihuh tribes and by a majority of votes given there appointed Zaid bin
Sinan, Sheikh of Dibah"; in IOR L/P&S/12/3731 “Arab States News
Summary 1931-33", November 1932.
27 Badr bin Sa'ud was not, as most previous vvalis at Khasab, a Shihuh but
a member of the ruling A1 Bu Sa'fd family.
28 Translation of the letter of 19 April 1934 in IOR R/15/1/284. On 10
September 1936 Rashid bin Ahmad contacted the Residency Agent in
Sharjah, requesting for himself and on behalf of his subjects protection
by the British Government, ibid., p. 48.
29 In exchange for the Ruler of Sharjah’s assistance in the matter of
landing facilities for aircraft, see e.g. aide memoire at Residency in
Bushire of 12 September 1934 in IOR R/15/1/284.
30 The Shamailfyah includes the Gulf of Oman coast from just south of
Dibah to Khaur Kalba in the south and the wadis of the Hajar range
emptying onto that coast; it even extends to the vicinity of Khatt in Ra’s
al Khaimah, west of the watershed.
31 Lorimer, Hislor., p. 778; see for the earlier history of Shamailfyah ibid,
pp. 776-84.
32 “Including 150 skins of dates, 12 cwt. of wheat and $10 in cash."
Lorimer, Hislor., p. 782.
33 Sa'fd bin Hamad’s wife was the sister of Sultan bin Salim of Ra’s al
Khaimah.
34 In his attempt to obtain Kalba for himself, Sultan bin Salim of Ra’s al
Khaimah tried to win over the influential Naqbiyln shaikh by offering
him the position as amir of Khaur Fakkan and Kalba. See cable from
Residency Agent in Sharjah to Political Agent, Bahrain of 8 May 1937 in
IOR R/15/1/287, “Succession to the Sheikhdom of Kalba and Kalba
Affairs, May 1937 to October 1937”.
35 This choice was as good as unanimous, and in July even the Naqbiyfn
promised to pay allegiance to him. He is called “Wali of Kalba" by the
Political Agent in Muscat in a cable to the Resident in Bushire on 21
June 1937, and he called himself “Wali of Kalba and guardian and
representative of Shaikh Hamad bin Sa'id al Qasimi” in a letter to the
Political Resident at Bushire dated 22 June 1937 in IOR R/15/1/287.
36 The Sharqiyfn of Shamailfyah and other locations in Ra’s al Khaimah
and Sharjah territories numbered about 7,000 people which made them
the second largest tribe, after the Bani Yas, of the whole Trucial States;

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