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IOR/R/15/2/28
- Record Id:
- 040-000228269
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 036-000228236
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000000193.0x0002fb
- LARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100024001276.0x000002
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- IOR/R/15/2/28
- Title:
- File E5. Murder of Sheikh Selman bin Diaij and 25 others on the 3rd December 1900 at Deraya by the Behaih
- Scope & Content:
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This file contains correspondence between British officials at Bahrain and Bushire; Captain Oldham on board HMS Lapwing; Shaikh ‘Īsá bin ‘Alī Āl Khalīfah, ruler of Bahrain; and the kaymakam (Ottoman governor) of al-Qaṭīf.
These correspondence concern the murder in 1900 of Salmān bin Di‘aj Āl Khalīfah, cousin of Shaikh ‘Īsá, together with some twenty-five others, at the hands of the ‘Behaih’ section of the Āl Murrah tribe while on their annual hawking trip on the mainland of Eastern Arabia at al-Darayah, some thirty to forty miles south of al-Qaṭīf.
The file contains details of the murder itself (folio 7), as well as subsequent dealings with Turkish officials and the Āl Thānī family in order to avert revenge attacks (‘blood feud’) by the Āl Khalīfah family (for example, folio 45) between 1902 and 1906. There are incidental references to the outbreak of plague in the Gulf in 1903 (folio 76).
- Collection Area:
- India Office Records and Private Papers
- Project / Collection:
- India Office Records
Qatar Foundation Partnership Programme - Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-000209245
033-000227426
036-000228236
037-000228237
038-000228264
040-000228269 - Is part of:
- IOR/R : India Office Records transferred later through official channels
IOR/R/15 : Records of the British Residency and Agencies in the Persian Gulf
IOR/R/15/2 : Political Agency, Bahrain
IOR/R/15/2/1-72 : Bahrain Agency, Confidential Office Files
IOR/R/15/2/24-44 : File E: Mainland
IOR/R/15/2/28 : File E5. Murder of Sheikh Selman bin Diaij and 25 others on the 3rd December 1900 at Deraya by the Behaih - Hierarchy:
- 032-000209245[0010]/033-000227426[0002]/036-000228236[0001]/037-000228237[0004]/038-000228264[0005]/040-000228269
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: IOR/R
- Record Type (Level):
- File
- Extent:
- 1 file (126 folios)
- Digitised Content:
- https://www.qdl.qa/en/archive/81055/vdc_100000000193.0x0002fb
- Thumbnail:
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- Languages:
- Arabic
English - Scripts:
- Arabic
Latin - Start Date:
- 1900
- End Date:
- 1906
- Date Range:
- 12 Dec 1900-19 Feb 1906
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
-
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- User Conditions:
- Physical Characteristics:
- Foliation: This file has two foliation numbers in the top right hand of each folio. The primary number is enclosed by a circle and begins on the first page. The secondary number is not enclosed by a circle and begins on the first page of text.
- Former External References:
- Confidential file: E/5
- Arrangement:
- This file is arranged approximately in chronological order.
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Public Record(s)