The origins of Kuwait / by B. J. Slot.

Bibliography : p. 186-187.

Part 1. The First Markings on Maps of Kuwaiti Territory in the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries : 1. An outline of the history of the Arabian side of the Upper Gulf between c. 1560 and 1666 - 2. The nautical charts - 3. The earliest geographical maps - 4. The beginning of Dutch cartography and late offshoots of the Portuguese cartographic tradition - 5. The first Dutch visit to Kuwait territory - 6. The Dutch Cartography after the expedition of 1645 -- Part II. Kazima : 1. The Sanson Maps - 2. Increase of precision in the Kazima maps -- Part III. Aguada Becomes Faylaka : 1. New information on nautical charts since 1716 - 2. Scholarly compilations using natuical charts -- Part IV. Grain and The Utub : 1. First mentions of the Utub tribe - 2. Grain - 3. The first mention of Grain on a map - 4.Tiddo Frederik van Kniphausen, the first to write about the Utub in Grain - 5. Ives's meeting with the Shaikh of Grain - 6. Documents on early conflicts between the Utub and the Ka'b - 2. Scholarly compilations using natuical charts -- Part V. Europeans Sources Mention the Name of Kuwait : 1. Carsten Niebuhr - 2. The Persian siege of Basra 1775 - 1776 - 3. Progress and stagnation in knowledge - 4. Systematic gathering of knowledge.