Historical Primary Sources: Middle East & North Africa: Government Documents

The coverage in the 4 volumes includes the major categories of Arab nationalists and pan-Arabists with aspirations to Arab unity, as well as activists with specific territorial demands and other anti-regime dissidents--who sometimes became the rulers.

These handbooks were compiled for the use of British officers for military purposes and provide detailed descriptions of the regions, settlements, routes and inhabitants of the Arabian Peninsula and Gulf. Originally all these documents were classified secret.

Six important historical, archaeological, and geographical essays authored by Commander J.F. Jones from the Bombay Marine.

The function of the intelligence handbooks was to inform British officials engaged on diplomatic duties in foreign countries about every aspect of the country in which they were resident. They provide a full, splendidly illustrated, geographic encyclopedia of the culture and civilization of each country, including over 1200 photographs.

Official British government records pertaining to the creation of OPEC in 1960, and the activities of precursor and related bodies and events from 1947.

A virtually complete series of reports of British Naval activity in the waters around the Arabian peninsula.

Includes notices of appointments and administrative orders, regulations, and rules regarding the British jurisdiction in Bahrain, Kuwait, Qatar, the Trucial States and Muscat and Oman.

Guides to navigation issued by the Admiralty, London, for a range of maritime areas including the Red Sea, the Mediterranean, and the Persian Gulf.

Over the period 1600 to 1853 each geographic area is dealt with separately, from Oman through the Emirates, Bahrain, Qatar, Kuwait, parts of Saudi Arabia, Iraq and along the Persian coast to southern Iran. General subjects, including the arms trade, slave trade, commerce and communications, naval affairs, and international rivalry are included in supplementary volumes.

These volumes contain the original political despatches, correspondence, and systematic naval reports which detail the gradual containment and, eventually, total suppression of the slave trade.