Ras Khaimah (7 results)

Paperback. Condition: Brand New. 120 pages. French language. 9.00x6.00x0.30 inches. In Stock.

Soft cover. Condition: Good. "History and Events Confirm the Arabian Nature of the Islands & Gulf" (back cover). Original gilt-titled colour illustrated wraps with French flaps 18x24cm. Printed by RAK National Printing Press. (2)pp prelims, 318pp text with many colour and b/w photos, maps, and facsimile documents, (2)pp map, (1)pp. English language edition translated from the Arabic, both undated c2000. Wraps good, worn to the spine ends and creased to the corners. Interiors good, yellowing at the edges with rippling to the leaves. This presents the UAE's official position on its dispute with Iran over the highly strategic islands of Abu Musa and the Greater and Lesser Tunbs in the Strait of Hormuz. Iran's undocumented claims date back to the C6th BCE, while those of the UAE are supported by official British documents from the early 1800s. Prior to exiting the Gulf the British had helped Sharjah and Iran reach agreement to divide Abu Musa into 2 zones, but RAK and Iran failed to come to terms over the Tunbs. Thus in 1971 Iran entered its zone on Abu Musa peacefully, and took the Tunbs by force. UAE perceived that Britain and the US had favoured Iran, seeing the Shah as a source of regional stability. This changed with the 1979 Revolution. Tensions increased during the Iran-Iraq War (1980-88), when Iran fired on Iraqi and Kuwaiti ships from Abu Musa, and used the islands as a base for its Revolutionary Guards. In 1992 Iran annexed Sharjah's zone on Abu Musa, and rejected several offers to resolve through the ICJ and UN. The author, a member of the Arab Historians Union and Arab Journalists Union, reviews pre-colonial history and Persian ambition from the time of Alexander the Great, considers the strategic importance in colonial times, and finally Iran's seizure, Arab reactions, and attempts to resolve. He also assesses the impact of Iranian rule, and the legal claims. Photos show the islands, dignitaries and officials. Facsimiles reproduce Arab and British correspondence including Anglo-Iranian Oil Company letters and maps seeking RAK permission to explore in the Tunbs. Rare. (Ref. Al-Mazrouei, "Disputed Islands between UAE and Iran", 2015).

Soft cover. Condition: Good. "History and Events Confirm the Arabian Nature of the Islands & Gulf" (back cover). Original gilt-titled colour illustrated wraps with French flaps 18x24cm. Printed by RAK National Printing Press. 452pp Arabic text with many colour and b/w photos, maps, and facsimile documents. Covers good with small scuff to the spine edge and rubbing to corners. Interiors mostly very good with some pencil annotations and corners turned down. An English translation was issued around the same time, c2000. This presents the UAE's official position on its dispute with Iran over the highly strategic islands of Abu Musa and the Greater and Lesser Tunbs in the Strait of Hormuz. Iran's undocumented claims date back to the C6th BCE, while those of the UAE are supported by official British documents from the early 1800s. Prior to exiting the Gulf the British had helped Sharjah and Iran reach agreement to divide Abu Musa into 2 zones, but RAK and Iran failed to come to terms over the Tunbs. Thus in 1971 Iran entered its zone on Abu Musa peacefully, and took the Tunbs by force. UAE perceived that Britain and the US had favoured Iran, seeing the Shah as a source of regional stability. This changed with the 1979 Revolution. Tensions increased during the Iran-Iraq War (1980-88), when Iran fired on Iraqi and Kuwaiti ships from Abu Musa, and used the islands as a base for its Revolutionary Guards. In 1992 Iran annexed Sharjah's zone on Abu Musa, and rejected several offers to resolve through the ICJ and UN. The author, a member of the Arab Historians Union and Arab Journalists Union, reviews pre-colonial history and Persian ambition from the time of Alexander the Great, considers the strategic importance in colonial times, and finally Iran's seizure, Arab reactions, and attempts to resolve. He also assesses the impact of Iranian rule, and the legal claims. Photos show the islands, dignitaries and officials. Facsimiles reproduce Arab and British correspondence including Anglo-Iranian Oil Company letters and maps seeking RAK permission to explore in the Tunbs. Rare. (Ref. Al-Mazrouei, "Disputed Islands between UAE and Iran", 2015).

Small folio (186 x 250 mm). Single sheet. Watercolour on paper. Finely executed marine view within a ruled ink border, depicting a Royal Navy frigate HMS Concorde, with secondary craft and mountainous coastline in the distance. Captioned in a probably later British hand within the border. Probably the earliest known coastal view of Ras al Khaimah, apparently predating by five years the well-known 1809 watercolour of Charles Hamilton Smith now in the National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, and by roughly two decades the views of Lt. Houghton, executed in the 1820s on the first British surveys of the Trucial Coast. - This finely observed naval watercolour shows HMS Concorde, a French-built frigate that was captured by the British in 1783 and refitted for service against France ten years later. The ship is seen in full profile, flying the White Ensign; the technical precision in rendering the hull shape, rigging, and sail plan all suggest the hand of an Admiralty-trained draughtsman. The ship lies off Ras al Khaimah with a small coastal craft in the foreground and the promontory's mountainous shoreline receding in controlled atmospheric washes, lending the scene the character of direct observation rather than imaginative composition. - The date of the watercolour is inferred from the period when the HMS Concorde is known to have been active in the Gulf. Anglo-French rivalry had intensified since the French Revolution, and the Napoleonic Wars pitted two of Europe's major navies against each other in a global conflict. French presence in the Arabian waters had long been a thorn in the side of the Omani government, and initial hopes that the establishment of the Republic would lead to friendlier relations were soon shown to be premature: indeed, French privateering operations only escalated, causing alarm not only in Muscat, but also in Britain. British patrols were ordered to the Gulf region, seeking to secure the sea-route to India and thus contain French influence, and Arab naval forces were frequently caught in the middle, standing accused of collusion with one side or the other (cf. Mustansiriyah University paper, see below). In the summer of 1804, the French privateer La Fortune captured no fewer than ten English ships in and near the Gulf, and HMS Concorde, equipped with 48 guns under the command of Captain Wood, was one of the British vessels dispatched to eliminate the danger. After fierce battle, Concorde captured La Fortune on 8 November 1804, one of the ship's most memorable achievements. She was laid up in 1807 and sold for breaking up in 1811. - Long before the systematic hydrographic surveys of the 19th century transformed knowledge of the Gulf into charts and published coastal views, this sheet registers the strategic theatre of the eastern end of the Gulf with exact topographical detail. It thus constitutes a rare pictorial witness to the Trucial Coast on the threshold of Britain's later treaty-era presence. - Paper lightly toned by humidity with minor marginal wear; creases to upper corners professionally restored. Unframed. - From a British private collection dispersed in the UK trade. - Cf. Mustansiriyah University Bagdad, "Nushub al-thawrat al-faransiat ." ("The Outbreak of the French Revolution and the Escalation of Franco-British Clashes in the Arabian Gulf"), 2018. Selections from the Calcutta Gazettes III (1868), p. 449f. C. R. Low, History of the Indian Navy (1877) I, 225.

A pair of original watercolours with traces of pencil, measuring 333 x 485 mm each. Framed and matted, captioned on the mat in Indian ink. Exceptionally rare: a pair of near-contemporary watercolours reflecting the English popular imagination of a crucial event in UAE history, the disastrous first sack of Ras Al-Khaimah in late 1809. - The punitive expedition was carried out by a 16-ship fleet of the British navy headed by HMS Chiffone under the command of Captain Wainwright, allegedly in retaliation for repeated acts of piracy against British ships perpetrated by the Qawasim, but certainly a convenient means for the British to expand their power in the Gulf on behalf of the East India Company. The battle, a massacre that is still locally remembered in story and song, was the beginning of a new era: that of British control in the Gulf. - The fleet sailed from Bombay on 14 September 1809, reaching Muscat on 11 November and descending on Ras Al-Khaimah in the dawn of the 12th. All day long the British ships bombarded the town's defences and homes. In the early morning of 13 November, 600 of the more than 1,300 British soldiers landed on the beach and, after bitter fighting, soon breached Ras Al-Khaimah's defences. Having demolished the town, the Chiffonne and the rest of the fleet sailed along the coast, wrecking additional fortresses. - The atmospheric watercolours depict the landing operation, with the Chiffonne firing its cannons and the British soldiers reaching the beach, in one picture setting fire to a pirate ship. The set of drawings at hand, apparently the work of a talented enthusiast, may even pre-date the publication of the aquatints by Richard Temple in his famous "Sixteen Views of Places in the Persian Gulph Taken in the Years 1809-10", published in 1813 from his own drawings made on location as a private in the 65th Regiment. - Provenance: once sold through the London rare book and autograph dealer Frank T. Sabin (1846-1915), with his labels on the back. Latterly in a private UK collection. - Cf. Sultan Muhammad Al-Qasimi, The Myth of Arab Piracy in the Gulf (London, 1985). Charles E. Davies, The Blood-Red Arab Flag (Exeter, 1997).

418 x 420 mm. Original colour photograph on glossy Kodak paper. An early aerial photograph of Saqr Port and the Khor Khwair industrial zone just north of RAK City immediately after its construction, showing clearly the newly completed port, natural gas storage, and the stone quarries beginning the take shape in the foothills. Likely photographed shortly after the port's founding in 1977, this section of the Ras Al Khaimah coastline provides a snapshot of a young country in the process of industrialization: the newly paved E11 Highway winds along the still-familiar coastline, across dirt roads and tracks and the edge of Wadi Ghalilah, crossing what is today one of Ras Al Khaimah's major ports and a leading supplier of quarried stone. - The aerial photograph is of high quality and full colour, unlike earlier surveys of the United Arab Emirates, which were carried out in black and white. Even particular warehouses and container ships at anchor can be clearly made out. Shortly after the formation of the UAE, the newly formed union commissioned a series of aerial photographs from the surveying company Hunting Geology and Geophysics; this was completed from during the years 1975-77. Hunting's was the earliest known aerial survey of the UAE after its formation, and this photograph probably comes from a set taken only a few years later (certainly after the completion of Saqr Port), which illustrates the drastic changes already underway in the Emirati landscape. - Very faint stain to center; otherwise in excellent condition.

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