An archival journey through the Qatar Peninsula : elusive and precarious / Sue-Ann Harding.
Harding, Sue-Ann.
2022
DS247.Q3
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Title
An archival journey through the Qatar Peninsula : elusive and precarious / Sue-Ann Harding.
Author
Harding, Sue-Ann.
ISBN
9783031038457 (electronic bk.)
3031038452 (electronic bk.)
3031038444
9783031038440
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-03845-7
Published
Cham, Switzerland : Palgrave Macmillan, 2022.
Language
English
Description
1 online resource
Item Number
10.1007/978-3-031-03845-7 doi
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DS247.Q3
Dewey Decimal Classification
953.63
Summary
This book retrieves from the archives people, places and perspectives normally overlooked to tell an original and expansive history of the Qatar Peninsula, paying close attention to landscape and the natural world. The arc of the book moves geographically through the landscape and chronologically through selected sources, drawing on digitised maps, manuscripts, hydrographic surveys, government records, traveller accounts, early photographs, archaeological and ethnographic reports. While these are standard sources recruited by Qatar to tell its own singular, streamlined history, this book is a subversive reading of those sources. It braids together elusive and precarious stories difficult to find, at risk of being lost, and never before brought together into a single volume to write a more complicated story of place. Through them, we can reimagine a place that, like many in the world, works hard to control a limited set of stories about itself. Readers who know something about Qatar will be surprised by the books nuances and details. Readers who know little or nothing will be drawn in to discover that, even in the most out-of-the-way and inhospitable places, deserts are never empty. Sue-Ann Harding is a Professor in Translation and Intercultural Studies at Queens University Belfast. Her research investigates translation in diverse contexts, particularly in sites of conflict and narrative contestation. She is the author of Beslan: Six Stories of the Siege (Manchester University Press, 2012), has travelled widely, and lived and worked in Doha for almost five years. .
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Archival journey through the Qatar Peninsula
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Intro
Acknowledgements
A Note on Spelling and Transliteration
Prologue: Murwab
Reference
Contents
List of Images
1 Introduction
References
Maps
2 Claudius Ptolomaeus, 'Sexta Asia Tabula', 1478
References
3 Carsten Niebuhr, 'Sinus Persicus', 1765
References
Littoral
4 William Vincent, The Commerce and Navigation of the Ancients in the Indian Ocean, 1807
References
5 G.B. Brucks, Memoir Descriptive of the Navigation of the Gulf of Persia

With Brief Notices of the Manners, Customs, Religion, Commerce and Resources of the People Inhabiting Its Shores and Islands, C.1830
References
6 R. Hughes Thomas, Selections from the Records of the Bombay Government, 1856
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7 W. G. Palgrave, Narrative of a Year's Journey Through Central and Eastern Arabia, 1865
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Desert, Sea
8 Hermann Burchardt, 'Ost-Arabien von Basra bis Maskat auf Grund eigener Reise', 1906
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9 J.G. Lorimer, Gazetteer of the Persian Gulf, Oman and Central Arabia, 1915
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10 The Arabian Mission: Quarterly Letters from the Field, 1899-1906
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11 A Handbook of Arabia, 1916, 1917
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12 Bertram Thomas, Arabia Felix: Across the Empty Quarter of Arabia, 1932
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Sky
13 Coll 5/11 'Air Route to India: Arab Coast Route-Emergency Landing Ground at Qatar': Royal Air Force Reconnaissance of Qatar, 9 May 1934
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Metropolis
14 Klaus Ferdinand and Jette Bang, Bedouins of Qatar, 1959
No. 1. Slave B-8
No. 2. M-
No. 3. R-
No. 4. A-
No. 5. I-
No. 6. A-
No. 7. M-
No. 8. B- and H-
No. 9. D-

No. 10. Z-
No. 11. S-
No. 12. Z-
No. 13. M-
No. 14. S-
No. 15. M-
No. 16. M-
No. 17. J-, S-, M-
No. 18. I-
No. 19. Z-
References
15 Nobody Gets Hurt Today
References
Epilogue: Sheikh Faisal Bin Qasim Al Thani Museum
Index

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