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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.
Print Book, English, 1993
Kegan Paul International, London, 1993
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