Apr 25, 2018
The story of a 19th-century Iranian Shaikh who lost his Shaikhdom [...] |Louis Allday
The story of a 19th-century Iranian Shaikh who lost his Shaikhdom […] |Louis Allday
Shaikh Khaz’al bin Jābir bin Mirdāw al-Ka‘bī was loyal to the British hoping they would help him – but they didn’t. Originally Published in British Library’s Untold Lives blog. / Scrool.in by Louis Allday Lieutenant-General H.H Shaikh Khaz’al bin Jabir bin Merdaw al-Ka’bi in military uniform wearing his medals | Wikimedia Commons [Licensed under CC BY 4.0]The Qatar Digital Library has digitised…
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