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1. J. G. Lorimer, Gazetteer of the Persian Gulf, 'Oman, and Central
Arabia (Famborough, 1970 reprint of 1915 cd.), especially 633-74. J. B.
Kelly, Britain and the Persian Gulf 1795-1880, London, 1968, especially
chapters III and IV.
2. These questions are juxtaposed by A. M. Abu Hakima, Tarikh
al-Kuwait 3 vols., Kuwait (1967-) II, 1, chapter III. The present paper is
derived from an unpublished M.A. thesis, Institute of Islamic Studies,
McGill University, Montreal (1975).
3. C. H. Philips, The East India Company 1784-1834, Manchester,
1961,79 and 155.
4. On this point, see R. G. Landen, Oman since 1856, Princeton, 1967,
8, 10, and 26.
5. G. P. Badger (ed. and trans.), History of the Im&ms and Seyyids of
'Om&n by Salil-Ibn-Razik [Ibn Ruzayq], from A.D. 661-1856 Hakluyt
Series, xliv, London, 1871, 293-5.
6. After 1806, this was Sa‘Id b. Sultan, who ruled until his death in
1856. He was never elected IbadI imam, but the British referred to him by
that title.
7. For the events of 1808, see Lorimer, Gazetteer, I, 641. On the
‘Minerva’ incident, see J. S. Buckingham, Travels in Assyria, Media, and
Persia (2nd ed., London, 1830), II, 228. Cf. Kelly, Britain, 111.
8. On the 1807 date, see Kelly, Britain, 110. The Wahhabis may have
taken advantage of the death of the Shaykh of Ras al-Khaymah in 1803.
9. J. A. Saldanha, Prdcis of Correspondence regarding the Affairs of the
Persian Gulf, 1801-53, 1906, 56.
10. Ibid.
11. Ibid., p. 55-7.
12. The text of the Treaty can be found in C. U. Aitchison, A
Collection of Treaties, Engagements and Sanads relating to India and
Neighbouring Countries (1973 Liechtenstein reprint of 1933 ed.), XI,
245-9. The signatories were: Keir; shaykhs of several QasimI ports; the
shaykhs of Abu Dhabi, Dubai, and Bahrain.
13. India Office, Factory Records, Persia and Persian Gulf (hereafter
referred to as I.O.F.R.) vol. 32, ‘Extract Political Letter from Bombay’,
dated 9 August 1820, 149; also Saldanha, Prdcis, 105, paras. 223-6.
14. Ibid., 104, para. 214.
15. I.O.F.R., vol. 34, dispatch from Keir to the chargd d’affaires at
Tehran, 30 January 1820,297-306.
16. Ibid., dispatch from Keir to the charg6 d’affaires at Tehran, 30
January 1820, 109.
17. Ibid., dispatch from Keir to the charg6 d’affaires at Tehran, 10
February 1820, 229.
18. Lorimer, Gazetteer, I, 674; also, I.O.F.R., XXXIV, dispatch from
Keir to the chargd d’affaires at Tehran, 2 February 1820, 130-1.
19 h. H. Whitelock, ‘An Account of Arabs who inhabit the Coast
between Ras-el-Kheimah and Abouthubee in the Gulf of Persia, generally
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