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IOR/L/PS/5/358, ff 522-531
- Record Id:
- 041-004566032
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 036-000538832
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100190599020.0x000001
- LARK:
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- IOR/L/PS/5/358, ff 522-531
- Title:
- Affairs Relating to Oman: Tenets of the Ibadhi Sect of Oman
- Scope & Content:
- Despatch from the Government of Bombay, Political Department, to the Secretary of State for India, No. 75 of 1872, dated 18 November 1872, including enclosures dated 11 July-31 October 1872.
The Despatch comprises a letter from the Political Resident in the Persian Gulf, forwarding an account of the ‘Tenets of the Ibadhi [Ibāḍī] Sect of Oman’ translated from a manuscript Arabic work by Lieutenant-Colonel Edward Charles Ross, Political Agent and Consul, Muscat [also spelled Muskat in this item]. Ross’s translation is of a work entitled: ‘The Keshf-ul-Ghummeh of the Sheikh Sirhan bin Said Sirhan bin Mohammed-el-‘Alawi [Kashf al-Ghummah of the Shaikh Sarḥān bin Sa‘īd Sarḥān bin Muḥammad al-‘Alawī], a native of ‘Oman’. It includes a prefatory memorandum and notes by Ross.
- Collection Area:
- India Office Records and Private Papers
- Project / Collection:
- India Office Records
Qatar Foundation Partnership Programme - Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-000538283
036-000538832
037-000539164
040-000539202
041-004566032 - Is part of:
- IOR/L/PS : Political and Secret Department Records
IOR/L/PS/5 : Secret Correspondence with India
IOR/L/PS/5/321-358 : Secret Letters from Bombay, 2nd Series
IOR/L/PS/5/358 : 'SECRET LETTERS FROM BOMBAY, WITH ENCLOSURES', Vol 37
IOR/L/PS/5/358, ff 522-531 : Affairs Relating to Oman: Tenets of the Ibadhi Sect of Oman - Hierarchy:
- 032-000538283[0005]/036-000538832[0011]/037-000539164[0038]/040-000539202[0006]/041-004566032
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: IOR/L/PS
- Record Type (Level):
- Item
- Extent:
- 1 item (10 folios)
- Digitised Content:
- Languages:
- English
- Scripts:
- Latin
- Start Date:
- 1872
- End Date:
- 1872
- Date Range:
- 18 Nov 1872
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
-
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- Physical Characteristics:
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Foliation: the foliation sequence (used for referencing) commences at f 88 and terminates at f 117, as it is part of a larger physical volume; these numbers are written in pencil, are circled, and are located in the top right corner of the recto side of each folio.
Pagination: the item also contains an original pagination sequence.
- Former External References:
- Political No. 75 of 1872
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Public Record(s)
- Names:
- Government of Bombay, Political Department, 1754-1934?
Political Agent and Consul, Muscat, 1861-1971
Political Resident, Persian Gulf, 1822-1971
Sirhān, Sirhān bin Sa‘īd-bin, Historian, fl 1874 - Subjects:
- Religion
Translations - Places:
- Oman, Arabian Peninsula, Asia
- Related Material:
-
Mss Eur F126/37, ff 54-59 and 60-65 comprise, and IOR/L/PS/5/271 contains, duplicates of these documents. A manuscript version is catalogued as IOR/R/15/6/6.