Bahrain through the ages : the history
Companion text to "Bahrain Through the Ages: The Archaeology", this book is based on a conference exploring the historical record of Bahrain. This volume deals with Bahrain's history from the late pre-Islamic period through Prophetic times and the period of the Islamic empires to the present day.
Conference papers and proceedings
xiii, 621 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
9780710302724, 071030272X
22421256
Introduction / Tariq Almoayed
The role of Bahrain in Mohammad Ali's attempt to establish a unified Arab nation / Ibrahim Khalil Ahmed
The inhabitants of Bahrain at the emergence of Islam / Abdel Karim al-A'ni
Bahrain in the seventh century / Hussain Amin
The Portuguese in Bahrain and its environs / Ahmad al-Anani
Documentation of the modern history of Bahrain from American sources (1900-1938) / T.A. Anthony
Reference works on Bahrain / Kurkis Awad
The coinage of Mismar b. Salm, ruler of al-Qatif in the 3rd/9th century / Michael L. Bates
C. Dalrymple Belgrave: the early years as Adviser in Bahrain / Robert Belgrave
Bahrain in the Second World War / Robin Bidwell
Traditional techniques of navigation in the seas of Bahrain / William C. Brice
The contribution of Portuguese sources and documents in recording the history of Bahrain in the first half of the sixteenth century / Ahmed Busharb. Bahrain, the Gulf and trading contracts with South India and the Far East / John Carswell
Bahrain according to Arab geographers and historians from the ninth century to Ibn Battuta / Ali Al-Doy
Early visual documentation of Bahrain / C.E.S. Gavin
Some issues in the history of Bahrain / Ali Habiba
The Bahrain of the geographers / Qothan Abdel Sattar al-Hadithi
Bahrain in early Islam / Abdel Latif Jassim Kanoo
The Utoob in the eighteenth century / Shaikh Abdullah Bin Khalid al-Khalifa and Ali Aba Hussain
Bahraini trade, from the 'Utub conquest until the appearance of oil / Khalid Khalifa al-Khalifa
An Arab pharmacopoea of the Gulf region / Afaf al Khalil
The art of printing in Bahrain 1913-1948 / Mubarak al-Khatir
Bahrain in a description by Ahmad ibn Majid, AD 1490 / Paul Kunitzsch
A reconsideration of the history of Bahrain / Robert G. Landen
Sassanid dirhams from the island of Tarut / Ali al-Mughanam. Trade relations between Bahrain and Iraq in the Middle Ages / Abdel Jabbar Naji
Commerce and coins in medieval Bahrain / Arlette Negre
The development of the postal service in Bahrain / Ala Musa Kazim Nuris
Competition for Bahrain during the early decades of al-Khalifa rule, especially in the years 1799-1803 / Patricia Risso
The establishment of the shaikhdom of Bahrain in historical perspective / Kamal Salibi
Customary irrigation law among the Baharnah of Bahrain / R.B. Serjeant
The Dutch East India Company and Bahrain / B.J. Slot
Bahrain according to the Annali Dell' Islam of Caetani, 1-40 AH / Vincenzo Strika
The secret alphabet on the map of an anonymous Portuguese sailor: a new document for the history of Bahrain / Abdelhadi Tazi
Some British views of Bahrain: the work of the Bombay Marine and Indian Navy, 1785-1863 / Penelope Tuson
Frontier relationships between Bahrain and Oman / J.C. Wilkinson. Anglo-American rivalry in Bahrain, 1918-47 / Rosemarie Said Zahlan
Aspects of the life of Shaikh Muhammad bin Khalifa bin Salman bin Ahmad al-Khalifa / Amal Ibrahim al-Zayyani
Selected papers of a conference held Dec. 1983 in Bahrain and organized by Bahrain's Ministry of Information