Lectures on the history of the Arab Gulf modern and contemporary

The book / lectures in the history of the modern and contemporary Arabian Gulf, by the author / Abdullah Siraj Omar Mansi, discusses the political history of the region starting from the Portuguese era in the sixteenth century. It follows the succession of external dominances (Portuguese, Ottoman, Dutch) until the British control was established through campaigns and treaties that organized its relationship with the coastal sheikhs. It also covers international competition in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, and finally the phase of independence of the modern political entities (the six Gulf states) and the influence of oil in their formation, with a discussion of pressing regional issues such as Iranian claims and the Iraqi-Kuwaiti dispute, providing a comprehensive view of the transition from fragmentation under foreign influence to integration through the Gulf Cooperation Council.