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This file is a continuation from IOR/R/15/5/154. It contains correspondence, memoranda and legal papers regarding lawsuits brought against the Shaikh of Kuwait [Aḥmad al-Jābir Āl Ṣabāḥ] by the heirs of the former owners of the Al Faddaghiyeh, Al Bashiyah and Al Fao properties, and efforts on beh...
This file concerns a recent claim, made by the Persian Minister for Foreign Affairs to HM Chargé d’Affaires to Persia [temporarily held by Victor Alexander Louis Mallet], to a ten mile limit for Persian territorial waters. It contains copies of correspondence between the Foreign Office, the Indi...
This file relates to the heirs of Shaikh Khaz‘al [Khaz‘al bin Jabir bin Merdaw Āl Ka‘bī], the late Arab Shaikh of Mohommerah [Khorramshahr], and their requests for British assistance. The first few items of correspondence concern Shaikh Khaz‘al's eldest son, Shaikh Chassib bin Khaz‘al [Shaikh C...
File 13/5 'Foreign Consular representation in Kuwait (and Persian Gulf)'
Scope & Content:
The file contains papers of the Political Agency, Kuwait, relating to foreign consular representation in the Persian Gulf. Papers dated November 1933 to February 1935 include: correspondence of the Political Agent, Kuwait, with the Political Resident in the Persian Gulf, and the Political Age...
‘File 2/15 MASIRAH & SALALAH AIR FIELDS (CHARTER FLIGHTS)’
Scope & Content:
Folios 1-12 in the file are dated 1941-1942 and include correspondence between the Air Officer Commanding Royal Air Force, Iraq and the Political Agent, Muscat regarding the combination lock for the Royal Air Force (RAF) petrol store at Masirah Island. These folios together with the file notes f...
‘File 2/40 II AIR FACILITIES (CIVIL) MUSCAT. VOLUME II’
Scope & Content:
The file contains correspondence in the form of telegrams and letters related to the Muscat Civil Air Agreement. The correspondence includes draft copies of the agreement, which contains the following: The heads of agreement between His Majesty’s Government in the United Kingdom and the Sultan o...
File 8/10 MUSCAT STATE AFFAIRS: MUNICIPAL & OTHER TAXES
Scope & Content:
This file relates to taxes in the Sultanate of Muscat and Oman and the payment (or non-payment) of certain taxes by British subjects. Related matters covered in the correspondence include the following: the Political Agent and Consul at Muscat's request that the Sultan of Muscat and Oman make th...
File 8/50 Muscat State Affairs: Saiyid Ali bin Faisal
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This file concerns Saiyid Ali bin Faisal [Sayyid ‘Alī bin Fayṣal Āl Bū Sa‘īd], uncle of the Sultan of Muscat and Oman [Sa‘īd bin Taymūr Āl Bū Sa‘īd]. It specifically relates to Ali bin Faisal's admission to a Government of India mental hospital at Yeravda (also spelled Yaravda) in Poona [Pune], ...
File 8/60 MUSCAT STATE AFFAIRS: MUSSANNAH AND YAL SA'AD.
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This file relates to the Yal Sa`ad [Yāl Sa‘d], a tribe based on the Batinah coast. The correspondence discusses the reported resistance of Yal Sa`ad tribesmen to the establishment of customs houses in the area. It also discusses reported smuggling and slave trafficking by the tribe, and the grou...
This file concerns relations between the Sultan of Muscat and Oman [Sa‘īd bin Taymūr Āl Bū Sa‘īd] and the Omani tribes. It includes accounts of meetings between the Political Resident in the Persian Gulf (Lieutenant Colonel Sir William Rupert Hay) and the Sultan, discussing the Sultan's efforts ...
