Davies, The Blood-Red Arab Flag: An Investigation into Qasimi Piracy, 1797–1820 (Exeter: Exeter University Press, 1997), pp. 5–8, 190. See also Sultan Muhammad al-Qasimi, The Myth of Arab Piracy in the Gulf (London: Croom Helm, 1986).2 Agreement between Britain and the Shaykh of Bahrain signed December 22, 1880, in J. C. Hurewitz, The Middle East and North Africa in World Affairs, vol. 1 (New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 1975), p. 432.3 From the Exclusive Agreement between Bahrain and Britain signed March 13, 1892, in ibid., p. 466.4 Great Britain, Parliamentary Debates, Commons, 5th ser., vol. 55, cols. 1465–1466, cited in ibid., p. 570.5 De Bunsen Report of June 30, 1915, reprinted in Hurewitz, Middle East and North Africa, vol. 2, pp. 28–29.6 Middle East Centre Archives, St. Antony’s College, Oxford (hereafter MECA), Philby Papers 15/5/241, letter from Sharif Husayn to Ibn Saud dated February 8, 1918.7 MECA, Philby Papers 15/5/261, letter from Sharif Husayn to Ibn Saud dated May 7, 1918.8 King Abdullah of Transjordan, Memoirs (New York: Philosophical Library, 1950), p.
