‘File B/10-6 Claim of K.B. Abdur Rahman al Zayani against Ahmad bin Khalaf bin Utaibah of Abu Dhabi’
- Holding institution:
- British Library. India Office Records and Private Papers
- Data provider:
- Qatar National Library
- Title:
- ‘File B/10-6 Claim of K.B. Abdur Rahman al Zayani against Ahmad bin Khalaf bin Utaibah of Abu Dhabi’
- Date:
- 1936/1949
- Description:
- Abstract: The file contains correspondence relating to a long outstanding debt recovery claim made by pearl merchant Shaikh Abdul Latif [Shaikh Abdul Latiff bin Shaikh Mahomed Al Abdul Razak] of Bombay against Khalaf bin Abdulla bin Utaibah and Ahmad bin Khalaf bin Utaibah of Abu Dhabi and Dubai. The claim relates to a pearl transaction dating from 1926, which was originally brought to the attention of the Political Agent, Bahrain in 1936 by Khan Bahadur Abdur Rahman Zayani of Karachi, a friend of the claimant. Included in the file is a Power of Attorney granted by the claimant to his son Yusuf bin Abdul Latif in Bombay in 1945, to enable him to pursue in the Shaikh’s court in Abu Dhabi or Dubai, the debt judgements already made in his father’s favour by the Bombay High Court in 1939. The main correspondents are the Political Agent, Bahrain and the Residency Agent, Sharjah who investigate the settlement of the debt claim between 1936 and 1939, and then again between 1947 and 1949, in response to further petitioning from Mohamed and Khalid bin Abdul Latif, also sons of the claimant and residents of Kuwait. Two letters and a memorandum by the Residency Agent about an attempted mediated settlement by a committee of merchants at Dubai in 1947, a letter from the Political Agent to Khan Bahadur Abdur Rahman Zayani of Karachi, and two letters from the claimant’s son Mohamed Abdul-Latif Al-Abdul-Razzak, a pearl merchant of Kuwait, are in English and Arabic.Physical description: Foliation: the main foliation sequence (used for referencing) commences at the front cover with 1, and terminates at the inside back cover with 54; these numbers are written in pencil, are circled, and are located in the top right corner of the recto side of each folio. An additional foliation sequence is present in parallel between ff 4-53; these numbers are also written in pencil, but are not circled.
- Language:
- English
- Type:
- Archival file
- Type (Narrower):
- Other Texts
- Type (Broader):
- Text
- Subject:
- Debt recovery
Claims - Geographic region:
- Abu Dhabi
Dubai - Rights:
- غير معروف
- Identifier:
- 81055/vdc_100000000282.0x000261_ar
81055/vdc_100000000282.0x000261_en
IOR/R/15/2/1874
IOR/R/15/2/1874