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3. Ibid., vol. 11, p. 1932.
4. A large Ghafiri tribe whose dir ah stretched from each of Ras al-Khaimah
town into the Dahirah. A settled branch of the Bani Qitab lived
in Dhayd, an oasis about fifty miles cast of Sharjah town. In the
nineteenth century the Bani Qitab formed the basis of the land power
of their allies the Qawasim, but by 1891 they had attached themselves
to Zayid bin Khalifah of Abu Dhabi. (Ibid., vol. 1, p. 771.) Later,
however, as the standing of the ruler of Abu Dhabi declined, the
Bani Qitab ceased to be influenced by that shaykhdom.
5- R/15/1/265, Residency Agent to Political Resident, 1 Sep 1922 (trans­
lation).
6. Ibid., Residency Agent to Political Resident, 9 Nov 1922 (translation).
7. Ibid., Sa‘id bin Ahmad to Political Resident, 23 Oct 1922 (translation).
8. Ibid., Residency Agent to Political Resident, 3 Aug 1923 (translation).
9. Ibid., Residency Agent to Political Resident, 29 Sep 1923 (translation).
10. Ibid., Residency Agent to Political Resident, 27 Oct 1923 (translation).
11. Ibid., Residency Agent to Political Resident, 11 Nov 1923 (translation).
12. Ibid., Political Resident to Government of India, 19 Mar 1924.
13. Ibid., Political Resident to Government of India, 20 Feb 1929.
14. Ibid.
15. Ibid., Political Resident to Government of India, 17 Mar 1929.
16. Compare this entire account with Hawley, The Trucial States, p. 348,
where he states that Ahmad bin Rashid succeeded his father, Rashid
bin Ahmad, in 1929.
17. R/15/1/265, Political Resident to Government of India, 17 Mar 1929.
18. R/15/1/275, extract from Senior Naval Officer’s memo. no. 31/619,
27 July 1935
19. R/15/2/916, ‘Dubai Ruling Family’, n.d.
20. R/15/1/265, Residency Agent to Political Resident, 29 Dhu'l Hijjah
*34° (23 Aug 1922). These grievances were described to the Residency
Agent by Saqr bin Zayid.
21. L/P&S/11/22, Pi719/23, Political Resident to Government of India,
18 Mar 1922.
22. R/15/1/265, Residency Agent to Political Resident, 13 Aug 1926 (trans­
lation).
23. Ibid., Residency Agent to Political Resident, 17 Nov 1926 (extract).
24. Ibid., 3 Ramadan 1345(7 Mar 1927)• Also on 4 Ramadan 1345(8
Mar 1927), in which his brother ‘Abd al-Rahman referred to the boys as
the sons of Shaytan (Satan), a play on the name ‘Sultan’.
25. L/P&S/i 1/195, Pi345/21, Political Resident to Government of India,
13 Dee 1927.
26. This is recorded in R/15/1/265, Shakhbut and Hazza‘ to Ahmad bin
Khalifah, n.d.
27. According to a messenger of the Residency Agent, this consisted of
400 armed men, twelve boats and two bums (cargo vessels used in
Gulf waters) which had four guns (ibid., Residency Agent to Political
Resident, 9 Mar 1927). The Resident at Bushirc reacted strongly to
the force and he warned Saqr that he would not ‘tolerate any breach
of the maritime peace (ibid., Political Resident to Saqr bin Zayid,
23 July ,927)-