Wahhabi movement 9–10, 11, 63
defined 154, 155
Jassim’s sympathy for their cause 72, 79, 185
Wahhabi-Bahraini relations 77
Wahhabi ports 51
Wahhabi state 22, 23, 48, 52
Wainwright, Captain 23
Wajba, Battle of (1893) 134–40, 156, 184–85
Wakra, Qatar 40, 45, 51, 53, 55, 56, 57, 65, 84, 86, 93, 103, 173, 176, 184
administration in 54, 175
Al bin Ali in 152
British Indian subjects in 95, 115
mudirates 174
Muhammad bin Khalifa attacks (1867) 90
Muhammad bin Thani’s escape to (1867) 91, 92
Talbot and Jassim’s meeting 139
Watari tribesmen settle in 95
Wali of Baghdad 116, 132, 133
War of Jenkins’ Ear 173–74
White, Ambassador 133
Wilayet of Basra 133, 152
William IV, King 49
Wilson, Colonel Frederick 141, 143
Wurtembergische Bank 179
Yamama, Saudi Arabia 18
Yaqut al-Hamawi xvi
Yariba clan 8, 9
Yemen xvii, 27, 33, 99, 100, 158
Young Ottomans reform movement 101
Young Turk movement 177
Yusuf Effendi, Major 135
Zahlan, Rosemarie 39, 108
The Creation of Qatar 85
zakah (religious tithe) 48, 84, 100, 107, 117, 132
Zakhnuniya 72, 176–79
Zamzam, Mecca 6
Zayid bin Khalifa, Sheikh, of Abu Dhabi 90, 91, 119, 126, 127
Zayyid Pasha, Mutasarrif of Najd 112, 116, 117
Zheng He, Admiral 6
Ziyad, Sheikh, of Abu Dhabi 155
Zubara, Qatar xvii, 18, 19, 22, 51, 52, 63, 65, 68, 105, 125, 126, 175
Al bin Ali presence in 140–41, 143, 146
the focus of trouble with Bahrain 157
garrisoning of 129, 133
HMS Sphinx’s actions 142
the Naim move to 147
Ottoman administration in 154
Ottoman revenge 140–47
potential Ottoman occupation 133
struggle for 109–12
Zuhaf (gunboat) 144, 145, 148
This map by Angelo de Conte Freducci, dated 1555, is orientated with north at the bottom and south at the top. It shows the Arabian Gulf to the left and the Red Sea to the right; the Qatar peninsula can be clearly seen.
A map drawn some two hundred years later, from Atlas de Toutes les Parties Connues du Globe Terrestre by Rigobert Bonne, published in Geneva around 1760. Qatar is again clearly indicated.
Pearl fishing in the Arabian Gulf. This 1870 engraving shows lines attached to the pearl divers, for hauling them back to the surface at the end of the dive.
A group of Bedouin tribesmen, photographed in January 1904 by the German traveller Hermann Burchardt. Burchardt’s photographs were the first ever taken of Qatar.
The British Royal Navy inflicted periodic damage on the coastal settlements and fishing and pearling fleets of Qatar in Jassim’s time. This photograph shows HMS Philomel of the Royal Navy’s Persian Gulf Operations Fleet, at anchor in the Gulf around 1900.
A fishing boat hauled up for repair on the seashore at Doha in the 1950s. The building in the background, part of what is known as the Diwan al Amiri, was constructed for the Emir and is still used for government business today.
Fishermen tending their nets on the seashore at Al Khor, a fishing village in eastern Qatar, in the 1970s.
A traditional pearling vessel, seen here in 1985, proudly flies the Qatari national flag.
Bedouin camelriders in the Qatari desert. This photograph was taken in the 1970s, but the riders’ skills are the same as in Jassim’s time a hundred years before.
Bedouin tribesmen of the 1950s making coffee and tea.
A traditional meeting of dignitaries and tribal leaders in Qatar in the late 1970s.
A rugged stretch of coastline near Fuwairit, Jassim’s birthplace in northeastern Qatar, photographed in the 1970s.
The fort at Wajba, scene of Jassim’s decisive victory in 1893 over the Ottoman forces under Mehmed Hafiz Pasha. This photograph was taken around 1930.
The coastal village of Lusail, near to Bida and present-day Doha, was Jassim’s summer retreat. He discreetly ruled from Lusail in his later years, and was buried there after his death on 17 July 1913.
The coastal settlement of Wakra as it appeared in the early 1980s.
Traditional mosque in Doha, photographed in the 1950s.
Sand dunes to the west of Wukair, photographed in the 1970s.
The stunning architectural spectacle of the present-day corniche at Doha, capital of Qatar (above), is no less impressive when lit up at night(below).
A far cry from the small fishing settlements of Jassim’s time, the modern port of Ras Laffan in north-eastern Qatar is a major export hub for petroleum and gas products. The port was completed in 1996 by Qatar Petroleum and covers 56 square kilometres.
The Pearl Monument on the corniche in Doha is a proud acknowledgement of Qatar’s heritage, and of the pearls that provided a livelihood for coastal communities in Jassim’s time.
* Yaqut al-Hamawi (1179–1229) started life as a Greek slave in the Syrian town of Hama, but ended up a top Islamic scholar in Baghdad.
Jassim the Leader: Founder of Qatar Page 23
