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Project / Collection Qatar Foundation Partnership Programme Subject Biographies Level [40] File

1. Add MS 23403, ff 4v-8v

Reference (shelfmark):
Add MS 23403, ff 4v-8v
Title:
Tadhkirah li-Ibn Sīnā تذكرة لابن سينا Jūzjānī, ʻAbd al-Wāḥid جوزجاني، عبد الواحد
Scope & Content:
Biography of Abū ʻAlī al-Ḥusayn ibn ʻAbd Allāh (أبو علي الحسين بن عبد الله), known as Ibn Sīnā (ابن سينا, latinised as Avicenna, d. 1037), with a list of his works (ff. 6r-7v). The text is a paraphrased version of the widely-circulated autobiography by Ibn Sīnā, completed by his pupil ʻAbd al-...
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Arabic
Date Range:
1019
Extent:
Ff. 4v-8v

2. IOR/L/PS/12/98

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/12/98
Title:
PZ 1084/34 'Supply of Secret & Confidential Publications to the Air Ministry Who's who of the N.W.F. Tribes'
Scope & Content:
The file contains printed copies of the bi-annual Addenda and Corrigenda to Who’s Who in the North-West Frontier Province, for the years 1934 to 1937. This biographical compilation is one of several confidential and secret Government of India intelligence publications made available to serving of...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
6 Feb 1934-30 Nov 1938
Extent:
1 file (107 folios)

3. IOR/L/PS/12/3451

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/12/3451
Title:
Coll 28/46 ‘Persia. Who’s Who, and Leading Personalities in:’
Scope & Content:
Printed copies of reports entitled Biographies of Leading Personalities in Persia (also referred to in the file as Who’s Who in Persia, and Report on Personalities in Persia). The reports were compiled by officials at the British Legation in Tehran, and updated periodically. The file contains co...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
26 Feb 1929-7 Jul 1947
Extent:
1 file (174 folios)

4. IOR/L/PS/20/224

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/20/224
Title:
Biographies of the notables of Fars and certain Persian officials who have served at Shiraz. Delhi: Government of India, 1925
Scope & Content:
The volume contains lists of, and genealogical tables and biographies for, the notable families of Fars [Fārs] and Persian Officials at Shiraz [Shīrāz]. The volume includes a 'Sketch Map of Boundaries of Districts of Fars', found in a pocket at the rear of the volume (folio 53).
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1925
Extent:

1 volume (52 folios)

5. IOR/L/PS/20/227

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/20/227
Title:
‘BIOGRAPHICAL NOTICES OF PERSIAN STATESMEN AND NOTABLES, SEPTEMBER 1909’
Scope & Content:
The volume contains biographical notices on ‘important members of the Persian [Iranian] Government, principal members of the clergy, and the notables of all classes, as well as a number of minor officials and persons of a lesser degree’. Genealogical information for some families has been includ...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1910
Extent:

1 volume (74 folios)

6. IOR/L/PS/20/231B

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/20/231B
Title:
'WHO'S WHO IN PERSIA'
Scope & Content:
The volume is entitled ‘Who’s Who in Persia’, and is a British intelligence report, compiled in 1916 by the General Staff of the British Indian Army and subsequently reprinted with corrections in 1918. The report was printed by Superintendent Government Printing, India, based in Calcutta [Kolkat...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1918-1927
Extent:

1 volume (145 folios)

7. IOR/L/PS/20/C137/1

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/20/C137/1
Title:
'WHO'S WHO IN PERSIA'
Scope & Content:
An official publication entitled Who’s Who in Persia [Iran] produced by the General Staff, India. At the start of the publication is a list of ministers who had served in the Cabinet of the Government of Persia from the coronation of Sultan Ahmed Shah [Aḥmad Shāh Qājār] on 21 July 1914 to Janua...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1918
Extent:

1 volume (101 folios)

8. IOR/L/PS/20/C199

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/20/C199
Title:
‘PERSONALITIES. BAGHDAD AND KADHAMAIN.’
Scope & Content:
An official publication entitled ‘Personalities of Baghdad and Kadhamain’ [Al Kazimiyah], produced by British authorities in Baghdad in 1920. The publication comprises a list of persons, in broadly alphabetical order by first name, accompanied by biographical notes. These primarily cover the pe...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1920
Extent:

1 volume (92 folios)

9. IOR/L/PS/20/E75/1

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/20/E75/1
Title:
'LIST OF LEADING OFFICIALS, NOBLES AND PERSONAGES IN THE ADEN PROTECTORATE.'
Scope & Content:
An official publication entitled ‘List of Leading Officials, Nobles and Personages in the Aden Protectorate’. A stamp on the front cover indicates that this copy of the publication was enclosed in letter no. 33M from the Foreign Secretary of the Government of India to the Secretary of State for ...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1915
Extent:

1 volume (14 folios)

10. IOR/L/PS/20/E75/2

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/20/E75/2
Title:
'INFORMATION REGARDING THE CHIEFS AND LEADING OFFICIALS, NOBLES AND PERSONAGES OF THE ADEN PROTECTORATE.'
Scope & Content:
An official publication entitled ‘Information Regarding the Chiefs and Leading Officials, Nobles and Personages in the Aden Protectorate’. A stamp on the front cover indicates that this copy of the publication was enclosed in letter no. 47M from the Foreign Secretary of the Government of India t...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1923
Extent:

1 volume (15 folios)