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386 Ibid, p. 342.
387 Abdulla bin Saood to Bruce, n.d., received at Bushire 28 February 1817, Bombay Secret
Proceedings, vol. 41, India Office Records.
388 Ibid.
389 Saudi Arabia, Memorial of the Government, vol. l,p. 143.
390 Lorimer, Gazetteer, vol. 1, p.657.
391 Sec J. B. Kelly, ‘‘A Prevalence of Furies: Tribes, Politics and Religion in Oman and Trucial
Oman", in The Arabian Pcninsida, ed. Derek Hopwood, pp. 107-141.
392 G. P. Badger, History of Imams and Seyyids of Oman, p. lii.
393 Ibid.
394 Lorimer, Gazetteer, vol. 1, p. 419.
395 Badger, History, p. liii; al-Salimi, Tuhfat al-A'yan, vol. 2, p. 167.
396 See Lorimer, Gazetteer, vol. 1, p. 419.
397 The Imamatc revived in the person of‘Azzan b. Qays from 1868 to 1871, and again in 1913
when Salim b. Rashid al-Kharusi was elected Imam. On the former event, see al-Salimi, Tuhfat
al-A'yan, vol. 2, pp. 230-238.
398 Miles, “Sketch on the Career of Sevyid Sultan”, Administration Report 1887-1888, p. 23.
399 Saudi Arabia, Memorial, vol. l,pp. 111-112.
400 Winder, Saudi Arabia in the Nineteenth Century, p. 36.
401 Ibn Ruzayq, al-Fath al-Mubin, folio 195. This book was also one of the texts taught to people
at Makkah after it fell to the Su'udis. See Ahmad al-Siba‘i, Ta’nkh Makkah (Cairo: Dar al-Kitab,
1952), vol. l,p. 349.
402 Henri Laoust, “Ibn ‘Abd al-Wahhab”, E.I., 2nd cd., vol. 3, p. 678.
403Ibn Ruzayq, al-Fath al-Mubin, folio 195.
404 In his al-$ahifah al-Adnaniyah, folios 142-3, Ibn Ruzayq describes Ibn ‘Abd al-Wahhab as
“the source ot the strife and dissension who tilted to the school of the Azariqah.”
405 Badger, History, p. lxv; al-Salimi, Tuhfat al-A'yan, vol.2, p. 187.
406 Miles, The Countries and Tribes, p. 293.
407 Lorimer, Gazatteer, vol. 1, p.424.
408 Kelly, Britain, p. 103. On the history and geography of al-Buraymi, see Miles, The Countries
and Tribes, pp. 536-538.
409 Miles, The Countries and Tribes, p. 294.
410 Information on the nature and length of the truce is lacking in our sources.
411 Warden, “ Wahabees”, Bombay Selections, XXIV, p. 431.
412 Miles, “Sketch of the Career of Seyyid Sultan”, Administration Report 1887-1888, p. 26.
413 R. Said-Ruete, Said bin Sultan, p. 8.
414 Ibid.
415 Miles, “Sketch of the Career of Seyyid Sultan”, Administration Report, p. 27.
416 Ibid.
417 Kelly, Britain, p. 103.
418 Lorimer, Gazetteer, vol. 1, p. 425.
419 Ibid.
420 While the Memorial of the Government of Saudi Arabia, vol. l,p. 12, mentions Sudan’s trip to
Makkah, it omits his contact with the Sharif, stating simply that the short-lived truce was
concluded with Sultan because he saw when in Makkah how redoubtable the Su‘udi state was.
421 Ibn Ruzayq, al-Fath al-Mubin, folio 197.
422 Ibid.
423 Miles puts the number at 12,000 men, See The Countries and Tribes, p. 298.
424 Ibid.
425 Amir ‘Abd al-‘Az!z was assassinated by a native of‘Iraq disguised as a Darwlsh, who had been
living in al-Dir‘iyah for some time. The murderer was also killed on the spot, and contemporary
sources are silent as to possible motives. Recently, Muhamnmad al-Tamlml discovered and
published a Turkish document indicating that the assassin was opposed to the Su'udi occupation

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