IOR/F/4/2324/120974

This item consists of copies of correspondence, consultations, and minutes cited in, or enclosed with, political letters from the Government of Bombay. The correspondents are: the Government of Bombay; Major Samuel Hennell, Political Resident in the Persian Gulf; Moollah Houssein [Mullā Ḥusayn], British Agent at Shargah [Sharjah]; Ameer Fysul [Amīr Fayṣal bin Turkī bin ‘Abdullāh Āl Sa‘ūd]; and Hajee Jassem [Ḥājjī Jāsim], British Agent at Bahrein [Bahrain]. It is the first in a series of six items on the Persian Gulf.

The item concerns:

• The relocation of four influential merchants from Bahrein to Kenn [Kish Island, also referred to as Gez], and the fears of Mahomed bin Khuleefa [Shaikh Muḥammad bin Khalīfah Āl Khalīfah] that they will attack Bahrein
• An attempt by Abdullah ben Ahmed [Shaikh ‘Abdullāh bin Aḥmad Āl Khalīfah] to persuade the Imam of Muscat [Sayyid Sa‘īd bin Sulṭān Āl Bū Sa‘īd] to help him to regain possession of Bahrein
• The collection of a coalition of pro-Wahabee [Wahhābī] shaikhs [those allied to the Second Saudi State] consisting of Sheik Sultan ben Suggur, Chief of Rasul Khyma [Shaikh Sulṭān I bin Ṣaqr al-Qāsimī, Shaikh of Ra’s al-Khaymah], Sheik Mukhtoom of Debaye [Maktūm I bin Buṭṭī Āl Bū Falāsah, Shaikh of Dubai], and Saaed ben Mootleek [Sa‘d bin Muṭlaq] to attack Sheik Saeed bin Tanoon, Chief of Aboothabee [Shaikh Sa‘īd bin Ṭaḥnūn Āl Nahyān, Shaikh of Abu Dhabi] at Brymee [Al Buraymi]
• Ameer Fysul’s claim to Oman and his friendly relations with the Ottoman Porte
• The arrival of the ‘pirate’ Khuleefa [Khalīfah bin Mukhāshin] at Bahrein after he attacked a boat belonging to the Mohurbah tribe [al-Maḥāribah].

The item contains a contents page and the title page of the item contains the following references: ‘Draft no 776/49’, ‘Coll[ection] 13’, and ‘Collection No 1 of No 29’.