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Illustrations

Acknowledgements

Preface

A Brief Chronology of Events

Dramatis Personae

Part One: Introductory

Prologue

1. Outline

2. The Setting

3. The Players

Part Two: Of the Evidence

4. The Question of Piracy

A. Tableaux

5. Incidents at Sea, in the Years 1797-1819, Which are Attested by Virtue of Admissions or Possession

6. The Most Important Cases of Alleged Piracy by the Qawasim Against British Vessels

B. Perspectives

7. Local Opinion

8. Cruiser Commanders’ Blunders

9. Off the Indian Coast

Part Three: Interpretation

10. Preliminary Sketch

11. Political History

12. The Port of Ras al-Khaima, Her Society and Economy

13. Some More Piquant Ingredients in Qasimi Maritime Plunder

Conclusion

Afterword: The Motivation behind Britain’s Two Expeditions Against Ras al-Khaima in 1809/10 and 1819/20

Appendix A: The Qawasim’s Seizures off the Coast of India

Appendix B: Qasimi Voyages to South Arabia

Appendix C: Ras al-Khaima’s War with Muscat, and the Political Fortunes of the Za’ab and the Tanaij, 1808-1809

Appendix D: Hostilities Between Muscat and the Wahhabis in the Aftermath of the First Ras al-Khaima Expedition of 1809/10

Notes

Bibliography

Index