Abstract: The volume contains a chronological list of brief summaries of papers relating to the activities of the Indian Expeditionary Force D (also known as the Mesopotamia Expeditionary Force) between 16 and 31 January 1916. This is accompanied by appendices containing copies and extracts of these papers, which include: letters, telegrams, notes, tables, and memoranda.A summary of the contents of this volume can be found at the start of IOR/L/MIL/17/5/3246. The volume concerns:Appreciations [reports] and intelligence summaries from the Directorate of Military OperationsThe reported probable distribution of the Turkish [Ottoman] ArmyGeneral Fenton Aylmer’s bombardment of the enemyDispositions for future operationsTroop movementsA system for correspondence for prisoners of war from Force D in Turkish handsMessages from King George V to be relayed to the troopsConcerns over Muslim troops’ unwillingness to fight in Irak [Iraq], particularly those in the 15th LancersMilitary supplies and specifications for weaponsA fatwa by the Imam of the Jumma [Juma] Masjid, Delhi, on the lawfulness of Muslims eating horsemeatProvision of river craftA description of the use of gas and bombardment in trench warfare, drawn from experiences in FranceProposed future organisation of Force D.The following tables appear:The distribution of the troops in Force D on folios 66-69 and 161-171The strength of Force D on 1 December 1915 on folios 80-83 and 110-112Distribution of the Russian force in Persia [Iran] on folio 152.Physical description: The foliation sequence commences at the front cover with 1 and terminates at the inside back cover with 184; 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 also present in parallel between ff 3-182; these numbers are printed and are located in the bottom centre of the recto side of each folio.Dimensions: 21 x 33cm
Abstract: The letters, memoranda and other notes in the file relate to the establishment of a branch of the Eastern Bank in Bahrain. The main correspondents in the file are the Political Agent in Bahrain (chiefly Captain Percy Gordon Loch, who occupied the position from November 1916 to February 1918, and George Alexander Gavin Mungavin, March to December 1918) and the Bahrain merchant Yusuf Kanoo [Yūsuf bin Aḥmad Kanoo].In July 1916 the Political Resident Lieutenant-Colonel Percy Zachariah Cox forwarded a request to the Foreign Department of the Government of India, made to him by the Eastern Bank at Basra, to open a bank in Bahrain (folio 2). The request was granted by Government, opening the way for consent to be obtained from the ruler of Bahrain, Shaikh ‘Īsá bin ‘Alī Āl Khalīfah. Shaikh ‘Īsá, along with numerous local merchants, was resistant to the idea of a bank in Bahrain, objecting in particular to the fact that interest accumulated on deposits would be unlawful according to Islamic (Sharī‘a) law (folios 7, 8). In response, representatives of the Eastern Bank gave written assurance that any branch of the Eastern Bank established in Bahrain would conduct their business according to Islamic principles (folios 13, 14). Resistance from local merchants, and in particular form the influential and powerful money lender Yūsuf Kanoo, continued to hamper efforts to win Shaikh ‘Īsá’s consent and establish the bank (folios 19-21, 28, 30). Renewed efforts to gain support for the establishment of a bank in 1918, in particular a series of interviews between influential merchants and Mungavin, were more successful, leading to Shaikh ‘Īsá finally giving permission for the bank to be set up (folio 41). However, socio-economic circumstances in the Gulf – chiefly a shortage of capital and manpower as a result of the War – meant that the opening of the bank was further delayed until 1920.In May 1921 the Advisor to the Bahrain Government, Charles Dalyrmple-Belgrave, reported to the Political Agent that there were twenty lakhs (100,000) of rupees in silver in the Bahrain customs, consigned to Yūsuf Kanoo, who was understood to be establishing a branch of the Ottoman Bank in Bahrain. The Political Agent wrote to the Residency, stating that Belgrave was against the establishment of a branch of the Ottoman Bank in Bahrain, the main reason being that there was insufficient business on the island to support two banks (folios 78-79). The Political Agent (now Captain Charles Geoffrey Prior) also reported that the Ottoman Bank would pay interest on deposits, leading to enquiries by Eastern Bank representatives to ascertain the extent to which the Eastern Bank was bound by its promise to adhere to Islamic practice.Physical description: Foliation: The file is foliated from the front cover to the inside back cover, using circled pencil numbers located in the top-right corner of each recto. The following foliation anomalies occur: 1a, 59a, 75a, 75b. The following folios are missing: 65, 77. Folio 5 is a fold-out.Condition: There is a small amount of insect damage to the papers in the file. However this damage is not sufficient to impair the legibility of the papers and their contents.
17.1 x 10.6 cm (12.5 x 6.2 cm).Cream, thick glazed laid paper with some folios blue-green. Boards have flower motifs. Green spine has 19th century ornaments. Page edges cut off during later binding which is damaged, but volume intact. One folio missing between ff. 60-61.Written in taʻlīq script, in one column, 15 lines per page, in black ink. Section headings, years and Arabic phrases in red or red overlined. Catchwords.MS Turk 50. Houghton Library, Harvard University.In Ottoman Turkish; quotations in Arabic and Persian.
Written in one column, 27 lines per page, in black and red.According to the colophon (f. 69r), copy completed on 2nd Ramaḍān 1051 AH December 4, 1641 AD in the hand of Badr al-Dīn ibn Muḥammad al-Manāshīrī al-Shāfiʻī.MS Arab 236. Houghton Library, Harvard University.In Arabic.Bound with: Taʻlīq laṭīf ʻalá al-Rāmizah fī ʻilmay al-ʻarūḍ wa-al-qāfiyahli-Muḥibb al-Dīn al-Buṣrawī. 1640 (ff. 1r-14v) ; al-Khazrajīyahli-al-Shaykh ʻAbd Allāh Ḍiyāʼ al-Dīn al-Khazrajī. 1640 (ff. 15r-18v) ; al-Risālah al-ūlá min rasāʼil al-Tājūrī fī ʻilm al-mīqāt wa-al-falak. 1635 (ff. 15r-31r) ; al-Risālah al-thānīyah min rasāʼil al-ʻAllāmah al-Shaykh ʻAbdal-Raḥmān al-Tājūrī (ff. 32r-39r).
Title from colophon.Copy dated Dhū al-Qaʻdah 993 1585.Mawlānā Akhī died in 914.Cream laid paper. 20 x 13 cm. (15.8 x 8.3 cm.).Bound with: Baḥr al-kalām fī ʻilm al-tawḥīdlil-Shaykh al-Imām Abū al-Muʻīn al-Nasafī (ff. 1v-25r).MS Arab 283. Houghton Library, Harvard University.In Arabic.
Copy completed on 3 Muḥarram 1229 December 26, 1813 from the autograph copy of the author.With: Risālat al-abḥāth al-mulakhkhaṣah fī ḥukm kayy al-ḥimmaṣahʻAbd al-Ghanī al-Nābulusī.MS Arab 276. Houghton Library, Harvard University.In Arabic.
Abstract: Treatise on Shiʻite law, with a table of contents on leaf 2b.Binding note: Full black leather with gold-stamped central mandorla, pendants, and cornerpieces and blind-stamped fillets; violet paper doublures; back cover missing.Ms. codex.Title from leaf 6a, line 7.Physical description: 20 lines per page; written in miniscule naskh in black on machine-made paper. Rubrication and catchwords.Incipit: الحمد لله ... اما بعد فيقول ... ان ما حداني الى تصنيف هذا الکتاب