دليل الخليج: دراسة لأرشيف حكومة الهند البريطانية حول إمارات الخليج العربي و الأقطار المجاورة

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The Gazetteer Of the Persian Gulf, Oman and Central rabia (nicknamed Lorimer) is a two-olume encyclopedia compiled by John Gordon Lorimer.

The Gazetteer was published in secret by the British government in India in 1908 and 1915 and it served as a handbook for British diplomats in the Arabian Peninsula and Persia.

The work was declassified in 1955 under the fifty-year rule, and was widely praised for its extensive coverage Of the region's history and geography.

It is considered to be "the most important single source Of historical material on the Gulf States and Saudi Arabia" from the 17th to early 20d1 century.

The gazetteer is a 5000-page document divided into two volumes; the first details the region's history and the second details its geography.

The geography portion of the gazetteer was completed first and was published in 1908.

The history portion Of the gazetteer was only completed and published in 1915, one year after Lorimer himself died in a shooting accident.

Titled "History, geography and genealo$, the volume was split into three sections which were divided by ethnicity.

Section 1 (the Arab section) was dedicated to the history of the Persian Gulf, central Arabia and Ottoman Iraq.

Section 2 (the Persian section) regarded the history Of Persia with particular reference to the predominantly-Arab populated region Of Arabistan.

Section 3 consisted Of 19 genealogical charts pertaining to the ruling families Of the region.

The research was compiled from Lorime€s own notes and the work Of colleagues such as J.

A.

Saldanha and C.

H.

Gabriel and ranged from the 17th to the 20th centuries.