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28. Principally Rani Yas from Dafrah, who migrated to the island in
winter.
29. R/15/1/265, Shakbut and Hazza' to Ahmad bin Khalifah, n. d.
30. Clarence C. Mann, Abu Dhabi (Beirut, 1969) p. 71.
31. R/15/1/265, Residency Agent to Political Resident, 25 Jan 1928.
32. Ibid., Residency Agent to Political Resident, 27 Aug 1928.
33. L/P&S/i 1/222, P3935/22, Political Resident to Government of India,
20 Apr 1928 (enclosed in P2561/28).
34. R/15/1/236, ‘Arab Stales News Summary’, no. 9 of 1930 (Sep 1930).
35. The claim was based on the right of ‘Abd al-Rahman, as a member
of the Al-bu-Shamis, to a Na‘im position.
36. The agreement is available in R/15/1/267. It was signed by Khalid,
‘Abd al-Rahman, the Residency Agent, and Captain Pearson on 8
January 1921.
37. L/P&S/i 1/195, P'343/2,: Political Resident to Government of India,
13 May 1921. Humayd brought on the anger of the British authorities
by appealing to I bn Sa‘ud for help against ‘Abd al-Rahman.
38. R/15/1/268, ‘Abd al-Rahman bin Muhammad to Residency Agent,
16 Dhu'l Hijjah 1341 (30 July 1923).
39. Available ibid., 18 Dhu’l Hijjah 1341 (1 Aug 1923).
40. Available in R/15/1/268, 22jumada 1 1343 (31 Dee 1923).
41. Ibid., same date.
42. R/15/1/268, Residency Agent to Political Resident, 10 Jumada 11 1342
(18 jan 1924).
43. Sultan had obviously hired non-residents of Sharjah to join his forces,
for in 1939 an Omani resident of Dubai appealed to the imam to
help him retrieve from Sultan bin Saqr the fee he had been promised
for fighting against Khalid in 1924. The imam wrote to Sultan, who
ignored the letter. The British authorities decided not to press Sultan
for payment, since by 1939 Khalid had become regent of Kalba and
was necessary for help with the oil concessions; knowledge of the
claim might have antagonised him. (R/15/2/617.)
44. Available in R/15/1/276, 14 Rabi‘ 11 1343 (12 Nov 1924). HMS Cyclamen
had arrived ofT the coast of Sharjah on 10 November, in case British
subjects needed protection and in ease she was needed to transmit
information of the events to Bahrain and Bushirc.
45. R/15/2/617, Residency Agent to Political Resident, 8 Dhu‘l Hijjah 1345
(9 June 1927).
46. The name Ras al-Khaimah, literally ‘the point of the tent’, refers
to a tent, erected on a low hill in the place formerly called Julfar,
above which a torch was lit as a guide for sailors passing through
the Straits of Hormuz.
47. Sultan bin Saqr became shaykh of the Qawasim in 1803, but in
1809 the Wahhabis, who had arrived in Buraimi nine years before
and had begun to assume great authority on the Coast, deposed him
and exiled him to Dar‘iyyah. In 1812 Sultan escaped, but in 1814
agreed with Sa‘id bin Sultan of Muscat to relinquish all claims to
Ras al-Khaimah, which was governed by Hasan bin Rahmah, and
to confine himself to Sharjah and the Persian port of Lingah. In
1820, after a British naval force had bombarded Ras al-Khaimah