Gazetteer of the Persian Gulf, 'Oman, and Central Arabia
- ISBN-10
- 0716513234
- ISBN-13
- 9780716513230
- Category
- Arabia, Central
- Language
- English
- Published
- 1915
- Publisher
- Gregg Revivals
- Authors
- John Gordon Lorimer, Richard Lockington Birdwood
Description
The Gazetteer of the Persian Gulf, Oman and Central Arabia was compiled and written by John Gordon Lorimer (1870-1914), an official of the Indian Civil Service, assisted by a dedicated team of researchers from the Political Department of the British government in India. Prompted by the Viceregal tour of the Gulf by Lord Curzon in 1903, the Gazetteer was originally intended as a 'convenient and portable handbook' for British policy makers and representatives in the area. So thorough were the fact-finding missions which Lorimer undertook over a ten-year period, that the scale of the work escalated; a geographical and statistical volume was published in 1908, to be followed by a two-part historical volume' in 1915. A separate portfolio of genealogical charts of the ruling families of the region was also published. For the first time, a comprehensive and accurate bilingual English and Arabic edition of this work is being published by Garnet Publishing for the Sultan Qaboos University in O
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