Table of Contents

Introduction; The role of Bahrain in Mohammad Ali's attempt to establish a unified Arab nation; The inhabitants of Bahrain at the emergence of Islam; Bahrain in the seventh century; The Portuguese in Bahrain and its environs; Documentation of the modern history of Bahrain from American sources (1900-1938); Reference works on Bahrain; The coinage of Mismiir b. Salm, ruler of al-Qarif in the 3rd/9th century; C. Dalrymple Belgrave: the early years as Adviser in Bahrain; Bahrain in the Second World War; Traditional techniques of navigation in the seas of Bahrain’ The contribution of Portuguese sources and documents in recording the history of Bahrain in the first half of the sixteenth century; Bahrain, the Gulf and trading contracts with South India and the Far East; Bahrain according to Arab geographers and historians from the ninth century to Ibn Battuta; Early visual documentation of Bahrain; Some issues in the history of Bahrain; The Bahrain of the geographers; Bahrain in early Islam; The Utoob in the eighteenth century; Bahraini trade, from the 'Utiib conquest until the appearance Ofoil; An Arab pharmacopoea of the Gulf region; The art of printing in Bahrain 1913-1948; Bahrain in a description by Al).mad ibn Majid, AD 1490; A reconsideration of the history of Bahrain; Sassanid dirhams from the island of Tarot; Trade relations between Bahrain and Iraq in the Middle Ages; Commerce and coins in medieval Bahrain; The development of the postal service in Bahrain; Competition for Bahrain during the early decades of al-Khalifa rule, especially in the years 1799-1803; The establishment of the shaikhdom of Bahrain in historical Perspective; Customary irrigation law among the BaI:iarnah of Bahrain; The Dutch East India Company and Bahrain; Bahrain according to the Annal Dell' Islam ofCaetani, 1-40 AH; The secret alphabet on the map of an anonymous Portuguese sailor: a new document for the history of Bahrain; Some British views of Bahrain: the work of the Bombay; Marine and Indian Navy, 1785-1863; Frontier relationships between Bahrain and Oman; Anglo-American rivalry in Bahrain, 1918-47; Aspects of the life of Shaikh Mulhammad bin Khalifa bin Salman bin Al).mad al-Khalifa

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Shaikh Abdullah bin Khalid Al-Khalifa, Michael Rice