Saturday 13 October 2018

When Arabs and Indians were recruited to work in Eritrea and Somaliland December 1934


When Arabs and Indians were recruited to work in Eritrea and Somaliland December 1934:

from online resources as part of the Qatar Digital Library's digital archive:

The file contains correspondence regarding the recruitment of labour from the Aden Settlement, the Aden Protectorate, and Yemen, for service in Italian Somaliland.

Following requests from the Italian Consul at Aden for an increased number of labourers to work in Italian Somaliland and Eritrea, the India Office, the Foreign Office and the Aden Chief Commissioner consider the options available to prevent the recruitment of British Subjects or Protected Persons for either the Italian or Ethiopian forces. Following communications with the King of Yemen it is agreed that Yemeni subjects should also be prevented from travelling from Aden ports for that purpose.


https://www.qdl.qa/en/archive/81055/vdc_100000000555.0x00001b?utm_source=testpdfdownload&utm_medium=pdf&utm_campaign=PDFdownload


http://www.mediafire.com/file/l54hc2z8p1u80qu/Recruitment+of+Arabs+and+Indians+to+serve+in+Italian+East+Africa.pdf

Monday 1 October 2018

COMMERCIAL TRANSFORMATION AND URBAN DYNAMICS IN THE RED SEA PORT OF MASSAWA, 1840s -1900s


اسماءعائلات مصوع [الجزيرة] وأصولهم  ، 1910
اسماءعائلات حرقيقو وحطملو وامكولو ، 1910
اسماء التجار المسلمين في مصوع ، 1901
اسماء تجار المنسوجات ، والجلود ، واللؤلؤ ، وأم اللؤلؤ في مصوع ، 1912
اسماء الأعيان المسلمون من مصوع (1880  1890)
اسماء عائلات السادة في مصوع ، 1860  1880
اسماء القضاة
Appendices of a 2004 PhD thesis by Jonathan Miran
"FACING THE LAND, FACING THE SEA: COMMERCIAL TRANSFORMATION AND URBAN DYNAMICS IN THE RED SEA PORT OF MASSAWA, 1840s -1900s"

From the abstract:

This dissertation examines the making of a complex Red Sea urban coastal society in Massawa (in present day Eritrea) in the second half of the nineteenth century. As a centuries-old port town Massawa's traditional role and raison d'etre has been to mediate between multiple commercial spheres connecting regions of the northeast African interior and beyond it with regions of the Middle East and South Asia. My study examines how a particular new conjuncture of political, economic, technological and migratory factors in the wider Red Sea and western Indian Ocean area in the middle decades of the century transformed Massawa. It re-organized the structure of its commercial relationships, which, as a result, shaped the particular social and cultural make-up of the port-town's inhabitants.

Appendices include:

- APPENDIX 1: Massawa [Island] Families and Claimed Origins, 1910
- APPENDIX 2: Families of Hirgigo, Hitumlo, and Omkullo, 1910
APPENDIX 4: Muslim Merchants of Massawa, 1901
APPENDIX 5: Textiles, Hides, Pearl and Mother of Pearl merchants in Massawa, 1912
APPENDIX 6: Muslim Notables (a'yin) of Massawa(1880s-1890s)
APPENDIX 7: Sadah (Sayyid) Families in Massawa, 1860s-1880s
APPENDIX 8: The al-Ghul Family
APPENDIX 9: The Family of 'Ubayd Ahmad Ba Hubayshi
APPENDIX 10: Pedigree (nisbah) of the Hayuti Family
APPENDIX 11: The 'Abbasi Family
APPENDIX 12: The Nahari Family
APPENDIX 13: The Safi Family
APPENDIX 14: The Ba Tuq Family
 - APPENDIX 15: Sample of Marriage Linkages among Families in Massawa, c. 1850s­ l950s
APPENDIX 16: Main Line of Descent of the 'Ad Shaykh Family (Semhar and Sahel, excluding Barka)
APPENDIX 17: The Khatmiyya tariqa in Eritrea
APPENDIX 18: Mosques of the Massawa Conurbation
APPENDIX 19: Qadis and Muftis ofMassawa, c. 1603-1960s.
APPENDIX 20: Demographic Figures for the Massawa Conurbation, 1886 and 1910
 - APPENDIX 21: Sample of Slave Manumission in the Sharia Court, 1868-1885
- APPENDIX 22: Real Estate and Moveable Property Transactions of Shaykh 'Abd Allah
b. 'Umar b. Sa'id Ba Junayd and Shaykh 'Ali Ahmed Ba Junayd in Massawa, 1868-1888


http://www.mediafire.com/file/athrwfe6irvf035/Miran_Ph.D._dissertation_on_Massawa_APPE.pdf/file
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Thanks to Jonathan Miran for sharing