‘Persian Gulf. Defeat of a body of Wahabee Troops sent by that ruler against the Chief of Sohar – Vol: 18’
- Holding institution:
- British Library. India Office Records and Private Papers
- Data provider:
- Qatar National Library
- Title:
- ‘Persian Gulf. Defeat of a body of Wahabee Troops sent by that ruler against the Chief of Sohar – Vol: 18’
- Date:
- 1848/1848
- Description:
- Abstract: This item consists of copies of correspondence, minutes, and consultations cited in, or enclosed with, political letters from the Government of Bombay. These political letters appear in IOR/F/4/2302/118727. The correspondents are: the Government of Bombay; Major Samuel Hennell, Political Resident in the Persian Gulf; Khojah Heskael [Khawājah Ḥizqīl bin Yūsuf] British Agent at Muscat; and Mollah Houssin [Mullā Ḥusayn], British Agent at Shargah [Sharjah]. It is the eighteenth in a series of fifty-one items on the Persian Gulf.The item concerns:Reports of the defeat of a body of Wahabee [Wahhābī] troops sent by Saeed bin Mootluk [Sa‘d bin Muṭlaq] under the command of Mahomed bin Syful Ujajee [Muḥammad bin Sayf al-‘Ajjājī] at the hands of Sheikh Syf bin Humood [Sayyid Syf bin Hamūd Āl Bū Sa‘īd], Chief of Sohar [Suhar]The resultant weakening of Wahabee [Second Saudi State] influence in OmanAlliances between shaikhs of the GulfReports concerning Sheikh Sultan bin Suggur [Shaikh Sulṭān I bin Ṣaqr al-Qāsimī of Ra’s al-Khaymah], who is rumoured to be preparing to support Mahomed bin Syful UjajeeReports concerning Sheikh Saeed bin Tahnoon [Shaikh Sa‘īd bin Ṭaḥnūn Āl Nahyān of Abu Dhabi], who is rumoured to be preparing to attack Mahomed bin Syful Ujajee.The item contains a contents page and the title page of the item contains the following references: ‘Collection No 1 of No 144’, ‘Coll[ection]: 17’ and ‘Draft no 465 of 49’.Physical description: Foliation: the foliation sequence (used for referencing) commences at the first folio with f 466, and terminates at f 479, as it is part of a larger physical volume; these numbers are written in pencil, are circled, and are located in the bottom right corner of the recto side of each folio.Pagination: the item also contains an original pagination sequence.
- Language:
- English
- Type:
- Archival item
- Type (Narrower):
- Other Texts
- Type (Broader):
- Text
- Subject:
- Tribal relations
Battles
Emir of Abu Dhabi
Ruler of Ra's al-Khaymah and Sharjah - Geographic region:
- Oman
Sohar - Rights:
- رخصة حكومة مفتوحة
- Identifier:
- 81055/vdc_100098764488.0x000001_ar
81055/vdc_100098764488.0x000001_en
IOR/F/4/2302/118744
IOR/F/4/2302/118744