Bibliography
- 1 Primary sources
- 1.1 Interviews, Eastern Arabia, 1953–6
- Rulers.
- Shaikhly family members.
- Local notables.
- Tribal members.
- 1.2 India Office Records, British Library, London
- 1.2.1 L/P&S/12: Political (External) Department, India Office, London
- Various files, including:
- L/P&S/12/3827: Trucial Coast: Dubai Affairs, 1929–40.
- 1.2.2 R/15/1: Political Residency, Persian Gulf
- Various files.
- 1.2.3 R/15/2: Political Agency, Bahrain (responsible for Bahrain, Qatar, and the Trucial Coast)
- Various files, including:
- R/15/2/1882: Disturbances on Trucial Coast, 1936–9.
- R/15/2/2009: Dubai Reforms, 1938–9.
- R/15/2/2010: Dubai Affairs, 1939–40.
- 1.3 Government of India publications
- Lorimer, J.G. (John George), Gazetteer of the Persian Gulf, Omān, and Central Arabia 1: Historical (Calcutta: Superintendent of Government Printing, 1915).
- Taylor, Captain Robert, “Extracts from Brief Notes, Containing Historical and Other Information Connected with the … Islands of Bahrein … and Other Places in the Persian Gulf”(1818), in Selections from the Records of the Bombay Government, new ser., 24, edited by R. Hughes Thomas (Bombay: Bombay Education Society Press, 1856), pp. 1–40.
- Thomas, R. Hughes (ed.), Selections from the Records of the Bombay Government, new series, 24 (Bombay: Bombay Education Society Press, 1856).
- 1.4 Contemporary publication
- Malcolm, Sir John, The History of Persia: From the Most Early Period to the Present Time, Containing an Account of the Religion, Government, Usages, and Character of the Inhabitants of that Kingdom (London: John Murray & Longman, 1815).
- 2 Secondary sources
- Al-Shahi, Ahmed, “Peter Lienhardt (1928–1986): Biographical Notes and Bibliography”, Journal of the Anthropological Society of Oxford 27.2 (1996), pp. 107–12.
- Crystal, Jill, Oil and Politics in the Gulf: Rulers and Merchants in Kuwait and Qatar, rev. edn (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1995).
- Durkheim, Émile, “Review of G. Salvemini, La Storia Considerate come Scienza; B. Croce, La Storia Considerate come Scienza; and G. Sorel, Storia e Scienze Sociali”, L'Année Sociologique 6 (1901–02), pp. 123–5, available online at http://gallica.bnf.fr.
- Frazer, James George, The Golden Bough: A Study in Magic and Religion, 3rd edn, vol. 1: The Magic Art and the Evolution of Kings (London: Macmillan, 1906, reprinted 1920).
- Gluckman, Max, Custom and Conflict in Africa (Oxford: Blackwell, 1955).
- Lienhardt, Peter, Disorientations: A Society in Flux. Kuwait in the 1950s, edited by Ahmed Al-Shahi (Reading: Ithaca Press, 1993).
- Lienhardt, Peter, Shaikhdoms of Eastern Arabia, edited by Ahmed Al-Shahi (Basingstoke: Palgrave, 2001).
- Maitra, Jayanti and Afra Al-Hajji, Qasr Al Hosn. The History of the Rulers of Abu Dhabi, 1793–1966 (Abu Dhabi: Centre for Documentation and Research, 2001).
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- Said (Zahlan), Rosemaire, “The 1938 Reform Movement in Dubai”, Al-Abḥāth: A Quarterly Journal for Arab Studies 23.1–4 (December 1970), pp. 247–318.
- Zahlan, Rosemarie Said, The Origins of the United Arab Emirates: The Political and Social History of the Trucial States (London: Macmillan, 1978).