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The Authority ofShaykhs in the Gulf: 75

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1. Minute Books of the Persian Gulf Political Residency. Here and elsewhere
the spelling and punctuation has been modernised.
2. Minute Books of the Persian Gulf Political Residency.
3. For example by J. B. Kelly in Britain and the Persian Gulf (Oxford, 1968).
Kelly also speaks of some secessionists from Abu Dhabi as ‘renegades’.
4. Quoted in Kelly, op. cit., 769.
5. Minute Books of the Persian Gulf Political Residency.
6. The most notable cases in recent times are the constitutional movements
in Kuwait and Dubai at the beginning of the Second World War.
7. An exception was Bahrain, where there was a good deal of agriculture.
There, the ShVah peasantry were more easily dominated.
8. ‘AbduVAzfz al-Rushaid: Ta’rikh al-Kuwait, Cairo, 1326 A.H.
9. Shaykh Muhammad b. KhalTfah al-NabhanT, Al-Tuhfat al-Nabhamyah ft
Ta'rlkh al-JazTrah al-'ArabTyah, 2nd edn., Cairo, 1342 A.H.
10. Nabham, op cit., 156—7.
11. Al-Rushaid, op. cit., 2nd ed. (undated), 74.
12. Ibid.
13. Here and in some other places which will be obvious, I have assumed that
institutions that existed in the first half of the twentieth century existed in the
nineteenth when I know of no reason for supposing otherwise.