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'File E5. Murder of Sheikh Selman bin Diaij and 25 others on the 3rd December 1900...
Catalogue reference: IOR/R/15/2/28
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Reference (The unique identifier to the record described, used to order and refer to it)
- IOR/R/15/2/28
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Title (The name of the record)
- 'File E5. Murder of Sheikh Selman bin Diaij and 25 others on the 3rd December 1900 at Deraya by the Behaih'
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Date (When the record was created)
- 12 Dec 1900-19 Feb 1906
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Description (What the record is about)
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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).
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This file is arranged approximately in chronological order.
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Held by (Who holds the record)
- British Library: Asian and African Studies
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Legal status (A note as to whether the record being described is a Public Record or not)
- Public Record(s)
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Language (The language of the record)
- Arabic; English
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Physical description (The amount and form of the record)
- 1 file (126 folios)
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Unrestricted
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- 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.
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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/d2c5e8e7-452c-4a8d-8b42-1d79e9bb7ac7/
Series information
IOR/R/15/2
Political Agency, Bahrain
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Catalogue hierarchy
This record is held at British Library: Asian and African Studies
Within the fonds: IOR/R
India Office Records transferred later through official channels
Within the sub-fonds: IOR/R/15
Records of the British Residency and Agencies in the Persian Gulf
Within the series: IOR/R/15/2
Political Agency, Bahrain
Within the sub-series: IOR/R/15/2/1-72
Bahrain Agency, Confidential Office Files
Within the sub-sub-series: IOR/R/15/2/24-44
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'File E5. Murder of Sheikh Selman bin Diaij and 25 others on the 3rd December 1900 at Deraya by the Behaih'