Bahrain Through The Ages

our ancestors and we are under no obligation to become British subjects. I demonstrated nothing to make you believe other than friendship. The British have no right to invade us. to launch an attack against us simply because you are we shall do all in our power to protect our land, our

worth mentioning here that some historians maintain that the lbadhi be traced to Ubad, the village in al-Yamama where Khalid lbn Walid engaged Musailama in battle and where Najda camped. entry into Oman was the foundation for the

number of research missions to the spice countries to the feasibility of Portugal entering the spice trade for of those despatched was Joao Perez de Cuavelio who left his colleagues behind in Aden and betook himself to returned to Cairo accompanied by

we could accommodate with seats the teaching myself, the curriculum planned is one embracing reading, writing, arithmetic, and in English covering both languages.

the Political Agent of some of his court work in discharging the over all non-Bahraini subjects. member of the British establishment in India could be on 10 August 1925 the following the personal column of The Times:

the name. there were many who thought that he gathered too much power into his own hands.

of 1941 that there was any real shortage and in May the PA reported of flour having been exhausted, there was no bread. committee to work on agricultural but obviously quick results could not be expected. winter there was a shortage of vegetable ghee which had

the same month the PA reported such a chronic shortage of were changing hands at a premium. The but thought that intervention would the police carried out raids looking

there is a clear approach for you the reference to a direction by the old of the bearing of the rising -or setting -of a text includes a concordance of this system of reference both

been a centre of Arab seamanship, could establish a there could be preserved models, books, manuscripts, photographs, to commemorate her great maritime

were at issue, and the seizure of Islamic Arab countries

the town of Bahrain there were at least 300 villages on the island. of merchants, who came there from far two commodities: which represented the island's principal fortune.

there the performance of the religious of hajj, and Muslim pilgrims like Ibn Jubayr al-Andalusi and lbn what they saw on their hajj journey. the writings of Arab and Muslim geographers and

the cradle of Islam. Studies in the geography, people of the Peninsula with an account of Islam and New York, Chicago, Toronto. Fleming H. Revell

the Jews did not refuse to let anyone else become Jewish in the but on the other hand they did not make win people to their side. were not closed to any one were acquainted with, even one of these systems of

of the Beni Tamim who had connec- the ruler of Bahrain.At that time it was as or rather some of its members were trying to build a with the Shahs of Persia by sharing in their not stimulate the interest of the kings of

of the real understanding of the role played by power in the relationship between nations. not within the scope of the Arab state to enjoy a life without this with the Persians against not in the Arabs' interest to involve

the Prophets, as treacherous and as to enslave the people with their propaganda which was not proven to be true. the allegiance of the Karmathians was not known to be given to either the Abbasids or the Fatimids. The Abbasids were known to

month of Muharram, 7th year Hijra, 628 AD. were separately sent at different times around this same date. one can surmise that the Prophet had sent AI'a Al the Amir of Bahrain, calling upon enter Islam around Muharram, 7th Hijra, May 628 AD.

of goods and almost monopolised the freight industry, in the kinds of goods which it used to export to the first quarter of the 20th to change from Indian goods to British products. the discovery of oil, the customs duty on

the founding of the press before all the workers and employees the press were Bahraini citizens. Some of them were later to become teachers like al-Ustadh 'Abd al-Rahman Hassan al-Hassan, or poets like 'Abd al-Latif Jawhar, or journalists like 'Abd al-Rahman al- There were many others whose names form a long list who

which Ibo Majid most probably had not book - of Bahrain in his time.

the island whose prominent feature is the castle of al-'Abd al-Wahhab, which belonged to the pearl merchant Mul:_lammad al-'Abd al-Wahhab the heyday of the pearl trade. The gates of the castle

the Ubulla river that connected the Shatt al-Arab to (twelve miles) not suited to large ships. It is evident from the descriptions of Muslim travellers like Mas'udi, Nasri Khasru, and Ibn Battuta that whence it was not unto you but over bridge or by pontoon'. the Islamic era Muslim of the Arab countries described much wider than they are the geographical term 'country', they used it as a

want to take control from the Al Khalifah? about 'control' of the pearl the industry was more centrally organized than it of territorial rights and not all in the hands of a single ruler or ruling family -

document - on p. 1, on p. 3, line 11, and p. 4, line 7 should be ~; and on p. 6, line 9, kathiifah, thickness, instead of

or more per maghras-plot, and the contracting the turning over of the soil shall be one turning or more for a fixed hiring, and a shortcoming appears in the stipulations responsibility for which the contracting upon himself, either in respect of the number of times the the proprietors of palms or [land for) tilling [lucerne, vegetables, to J the palms or of grass and the per annum, and for clearing the external and internal connected with them [of

to do so: some years earlier they had gained control of rich pearl were even better for the European market, even though their gloss was less durable: they were whiter than the Gulf pearls. new boom in the pearl market in Europe and the monetary

between the Dutch colonies in Asia and Muscat of the Dutch East India Company with Bahrain not of very great importance, and constitutes a rather humble the important chapter on the Dutch presence in the

of al-'Ala' was very small - three hundred the events in BaI:irain were on a the other parts of the Arabian peninsula. by the local levies belonging to the tribes who had not agreed to cooperate in the riddah. After

of hindsight, the negotiator for APOC in the Kuwait the 1930s continued to explain the behaviour of the company in non-commercial terms. In his study on The First the great strides made by Holmes with the ruler of Kuwait by June not a drop of oil had been found anywhere on the Arab side of the Gulf the Wall Street slump of 1929 and the concurrent world glut of oil had led the major international oil companies to other oil