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G. Ibid., PZ6130/33, Political Resident to Government of India, 25 Sep
>933 (telegram).
7. Ibid., PZ7757/33, Political Resident to British Minister Tehran, 16 i
Nov 1933 (telegram). s
8. Ibid., PZ5820/33, Senior Naval Officer to Political Resident, 4 Sep ■
>933 (telegram). This had been communicated to the SNO by the
Residency Agent.
9. Ibid., PZ3360/34, Senior Naval Officer to Commander-in-Chief East
Indies, 17 May 1934 (telegram).
10. Ibid., PZ4383/34, Foreign Office to India Office, 2 July 1934.
Ibid., PZ5735/34, Political Resident to British Minister Tehran, 1 Sep
l I.
1934 (telegram).
12. Ibid., PZ46/35, Political Resident to India Office, 2 Jan 1935 (telegram).
13. Ibid., PZ121/35, Political Resident to Government of India, 5 Jan
>935 (telegram).
14. Ibid., PZ504/35, Political Resident to Government of India, 22 Jan
>935 (telegram).
15. Ibid., PZ122/35, Political Resident to India Office, 5 Jan 1935.
16. Eugene Staley, ‘Business and Politics in the Persian Gulf: The Story
of the Wonckhaus Firm’, Political Science Quarterly, Sep 1933. See also
Busch, Britain and the Persian Gulf 1894-1914, pp. 369-72.
17. L/P&S/12/3798, PZ4313/34, Political Resident to India Office, 28
June 1934 (telegram).
18. Ibid., PZ6269/34, translation of agreement signed by Shaykh of Sharjah,
27 Jumada 1 1353 (7 Sep 1934). The option cost 500 rupees.
>9- R/15/2/589, Political Agent Bahrain to Residency Agent, 3 July 1934.
20. J. B. Kelly, ‘A Prevalence of Furies: Tribes, Politics, and Religion
in Oman and Trucial Oman’, in The Arabian Peninsula, cd. Hopwood.
21. R/15/6/39, Muhammad bin Sultan to Residency Agent, 14 Nov 1925
(translation). Enclosed in Residency Agent to Political Resident, 17 Nov
>925-
22. Ibid., Residency Agent to Political Resident, 17 Nov 1925.
23. This greatly annoyed Salim bin Dayayn of the Bani Ka‘b, who strongly
disliked the Wahhabis, but, as an ally of the Na‘im, was presented
with a fait accompli (Eccles, in Journal of the Central Asian Society, xiv,
p. 36). It also angered Hamad bin Ahmad al-Yahyayyi, the chief
of Dhank, who expressed this in a letter to the Muscat Council on
1 January 1926 (available in R/15/6/39).
24. After the death of Sultan bin Muhammad al-Hammudah, paramount
shaykh of the Na‘im and shaykh of Buraimi town, his sons Saqr
and Muhammad succeeded him. At first they were influenced by Abu
Sanda, their wali, who had originally been a slave. When Thomas
made his journey in 1927, he regarded Muhammad as the shaykh
of Buraimi, since he was living in the fort of the town. The brothers
seem at first to have acted together, but over the years Saqr became
the stronger. In 1936 the Na’im were so annoyed with the duumvirate
that they revolted against the brothers; they claimed that the disparity
between Saqr and Muhammad divided the Na‘im territory into two
parts, each one ruled without concern for the other (R/15/2/1865,