File V/11 Clearance Papers for Sailing Craft Leaving Bahrain
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This file contains correspondence between the British Political Agent at Bahrain; the British Political Resident in the Persian Gulf at Bushire; ‘Abd al-Ḥusayn, the interpreter of the British Political Agency at Bahrain; Jāsim al-Chirāwī; Shaikh ‘Īsá bin ‘Alī Āl Khalīfah, ruler of Bahrain; and S...
File V/14 Messooda bint Shaool Aboo Mazika, Jewish girl perverted into Muhammadan by -
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This file contains correspondence between Percy Gordon Loch, the British Political Agent at Bahrain; Percy Zachariah Cox, Chief Political Officer at Baghdad; the Chief Rabbi of Baghdad; Yoosif Ziloof [Yūsuf Zilūf]; and Shaikh Rāshid bin Muḥammad Āl Khalīfah. Also contained within the file are va...
This file contains correspondence between British officials regarding instructions and regulations for the various British agencies and offices in the Persian Gulf region. The issues discussed in the file include the use of demi-official correspondence, the compilation and use of the office dia...
File XXV/11 Standard weights for Bahrein [Bahrain]
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The file concerns the correction of shortages in the weights used by shopkeepers and merchants in Bahrain, and the manufacture of a set of standard weights. The file includes papers recording fines for shortages in weights issued to the foreign shopkeepers who came under the judicial control of t...
File XXVII/1 Al Khalifa family. Recognition of Shaikh Hamad as successor to Sh `Isa. CSI conferred on Shaikh `Isa. CIE conferred on Sh `Abdullah.
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The majority of the file contains correspondence exchanged by the Political Agent at Bahrain between 1914 and 1917 with the Political Resident in the Gulf, the Secretary to the Most Eminent Order of the British Empire, and the Ruler of Bahrain, Sheikh Isa bin Ali Al Khalifa [‘Īsá bin ‘Alī Āl Kha...
The file consists of miscellaneous official and demi-official correspondence relating to the outbreak of World War One and its impact on Bahrain (which is generally referred to in the papers as Bahrein). Most of the correspondence dates from 1914. The papers largely consist of correspondence fr...
Imports into Bahrain: statistics and correspondence
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The file consists of enquiries received by the Political Agency Bahrain about trade matters, with further correspondence and statistics, and papers concerning the import of gold into Persia. The papers are as follows: enquiry from the Chief Political Officer, Basrah [Basra] about the average an...
Miscellaneous reports and correspondence relating to Kuwait
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Correspondence of the Political Agency, Bahrain relating to Kuwait, and reports concerning Kuwait circulated to the Agency. The papers include: report entitled 'Situation in Kuwait' by Lieutenant-Colonel Robert Edward Archibald Hamilton, Political Agent, Kuwait, [March 1918]; 'Report on Insti...
The volume relates to the visit to London in 1919 of Sheikh Abdullah [also spelled Abdulla in the papers] [Sheikh ‘Abdullāh bin ‘Īsá Āl Khalīfah], the son of Sheikh Isa [Sheikh ‘Īsá bin ‘Alī Āl Khalīfah], Ruler of Bahrain (also referred to in the papers as Bahrein). The volume consists mainly o...
File 1/1 Shaikh Sir `Isa bin `Ali Al Khalifah, K. C. S. I.
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The volume contains correspondence and telegrams between the Political Agent at Bahrain, the Political Resident in the Persian Gulf and the Ruler of Bahrain, Shaikh `Isa bin `Ali Al Khalifah, in regard to Shaikh `Isa bin `Ali Al Khalifah's opposition to reform and British jurisdiction and his so...
