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6. On these events, see Ibn al-Muqarrab, Diwan, compiled by M.J. Dc GOEJE, La fin dc
Vempirc dcs Carmathes du Bahrain, in Journal Asiatique, 1895, and Memoirc sur les
Cannathes du Bahrain el les Fatimides, Lcidc.

7. The name of this ruler appears on one of the two inscriptions of Suq al-Khamis mosque.
8. On the Al-Tibi of Qais, see J. AUI3IN, Les princes d’Hormuz du 13c au 15c sicclc, in

Journal Asiatique, Paris, 1953, p.77-128.
9. G. BIBI3Y, Looking for Dilmun, New York, 1969, p.76.
10. Arabic inscription in the quarry of Jidda island, west of Bahrain.
11. Those sondages, carried out in 1978 by the Museum of Bahrain and the French Expedi­

tion will be published soon.
12. See a good copy of the page of this manuscript in Dilmun, Journal of the Bahrain

Historical and Archaeological Society, 11, 1983, middle pages.
13. This anonymous miniature was shown at the International Conference “Bahrain

through the Ages”: see the papers of A. Dias FARINHA, New Portuguese Documents
on Bahrain History in the 16th and 17th centuries, and A.TAZI, An unpublished
Document on Bahrain.
14. This inscription will be soon published by B. ANDRE-LEIKNAM, Curator at the
Musee du Louvre. It mentions the name of the Kassite King Burnaburiash.
15. A preliminary report has already been published on the first seasons of excavation of this
fortress: M. KERVRAN, A. NEGRE and M. PIRAZZOLI, Excavation of Qal'al
al-Bahrain, 1977-1979, Publication of the Ministry of Information, Bahrain, 1982. The
final results of the excavation of the fortress as well as its surroundings will be published
in 1985/1986.

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