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Notes to Chapter Seven

almost the entire body of the Al Bu Falasah being to the present day
domiciled at Dibai.”
4 Shaikh Maktum bin Buti was followed in 1852 by his brother Sa'fd bin
Buti. who died in 1859 of smallpox. From 1859 to 1886 Hashar bin
Maktum was the Ruler, followed by his brother Rashid bin Maktum
(1886-94). The latter’s nephew Maktum bin Hashar was Ruler from
1894-1906. An uncle. Buti bin Suhail, ruled from 1906-12 when Sa'id
bin Maktum, who was a minor at the lime of the death of his father
Maktum bin Hashar, took over and ruled until his death in 1958. Since
that date Shaikh Rashid bin SaTd has been the Ruler of Dubai.
5 According to Lorimer, there were 67 Hindus and 23 Khojahs, including
women and children, settled in Dubai at the lime of the last count before
the Gazetteer was printed; Lorimer, Geogr., p. 455.
6 See Lorimer, Geogr., p. 1121f and p. 1204.
7 Lorimer, Hist or., p. 2256.
8 See Lorimer, Histor., pp. 2286f and above, pages 113ff.
9 For example Humaid bin ’Abdul Rahman bin Saif Al Bu Shamis, who
had unsuccessfully tried to oust his father from the headmanship of
Hamriyah in 1922, settled in Dubai after his cousins had murdered his
father in 1931; he succeeded in expelling them from Hamriyah and
became headman. See above, page 98.
10 On Bastak see Lorimer, Geogr., p. 279f.
11 Khamlr, on the coast of the Bastak district, about 12 miles WNW of Laft
on Qishim Island, was an example of the close relationship between the
populations on the opposite coasts of the Gulf; Lorimer described the
port: ‘‘KhamTr contains about 350 houses, and the total population may
be 1,800 souls. The people, except a very few, are Sunnis and belong to
various Arab tribes: they are chiefly engaged in navigation, fishing,
date-growing, wood-cutting and lime-burning.” (Geogr., p. 1016).
12 See the detailed study on the construction and use of a house in the
BastakTyah by Anne Coles and Peter jackson, entitled: A Windtower
House in Duhai. Art and Archaeology Research Papers, June 1975 (102
St Paul's Road, London N.I.).
13 See Trucial Stales Census Figures 1968, published in mimeograph by
the Development Office of the Trucial States Council. Of the 12,193
households of Dubai, 6,189 were then accommodated in stone and mud-
brick houses.
14 The word barasti is not Arabic and is predominantly used by English-
s peaking foreigners. The local word for a palm-frond house is 'arlsh or
khaimah (pi. khiyam). Handhal speculates that the word is of Spanish
origin, See Handhal. Falih, Mu'ajam al Alfadh al 'Amlyah (The
Dictionary of the local dialect of the UAE), published by the UAE
Ministry of Information and Culture, Abu Dhabi, (about 1979).
15 The piece of land on which they built their houses was either bought or

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