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lo in the report by the Residency Agent from which this account
has been drawn was probably his brother and successor, Muhammad.
3». R/15/1/250, Residency Agent to Political Resident, 2 Ramadan >313
(27 Mar 1925).
39- °nc of the oldest tribes in Arabia, the Al-Murrah had a range extending
from Hasa to Riyadh, and were thus well within the confines of
I bn Sa‘ud’s authority.
40. There seems to be some confusion as to his complete name. He has
been referred to as Su'ayyid bin Faysal and as Su'ayyid bin ‘Arafah.
For the sake of simplicity, he is referred to here as Su'ayyid, the
same name given lo him by the Residency Agent in Sharjah. (R/15/2/544,
Residency Agent to Officiating Political Resident, 9 Jumada 11 1353
(19 Sep 1934)0
41. L/P&S/i 1/222, P2433/26, Political Resident to Colonial Ofiicc, 9 June
1926.
42. R/15/2/544, Residency Agent to Officiating Political Resident, 9 Jumada
" >353 (>9 Sep 1934).
43. L/P&S/i 1/222, P2433/26, Political Resident to Colonial Ofiicc, 9 June
1926.
44. L/P&S/i 1/294, P6690/28, Thomas to Political Resident, 13 June 1927.
See also Bertram Thomas, Alarms and Excursions in Arabia (London,
1930- .v.
45- R/15/6/39> Shaykh Rashid bin ‘Uzayz (Minister for Religious Affairs,
Muscat Council of Ministers) to Political Agent Muscat, n. d. (trans­
lation).
46. Ibid., Clerk of the wali of Sohar to Council of Ministers, Muscat and
Oman. 11 Dhu’l Hijjah 1343 (4 July 1925).
47. He claimed that the purpose of their visit was to inspect their date
gardens in the Batinah, and he told the Residency Agent that he
was not in the least afraid of Ibn Jaluwi (ibid., Residency Agent
to Political Resident, 7 Oct 1925).
48. At-Shura, edited by Muhammad ‘Ali Tahir, who previously had lived
in the Hijaz under Hashimi rule, was in print only from 1924 >0
«93>-
49. Originally from Tripoli, Libya, al-Nafusi went to Muscat in 1924.
Two years later he became Finance Minister to the imam of Oman.
A powerful man who was regarded with great suspicion by the British
authorities in Muscat and Bushirc, al-Nafusi was also a friend of King
Faisal of Iraq, and in 1929 he left Oman to live in Basrah and
Baghdad. At first refused re-entry into Muscat, he returned in 1938,
this time to work for the sultan.
50. R/15/6/39, note by Soofi (Munshi, or scribe, at the Political Agency
in Muscat) to Political Agent Muscat, 29 Nov 1925. Soofi also mentioned
that Sa‘id had been so nervous about the possibility of Wahhabi aggres­
sion that he had an Arab from Zubayr who was visiting Dubai deported
merely because he ‘spoke an ill-word’ about Ibn Sa‘ud.
1. 10 Jumada 1 1344 (27 Nov 1925). Translation enclosed in L/P&S/i 1/222,
P2433/26, Political Resident to Colonial Office, 9 June 1926.
c2 Details available in R/i 5/6/39- Sec also Ecclcs, in Journal of the Central Asian
° Society xiv J. B. Kelly, ‘A Prevalence of Furies: Tribes, Politics,