D. Khaled Al -Hamdani
The role of the eyes in Bahrain began following the success of the family leader Abdullah bin Ali in gathering the sons of his clan from the Abdul Qais tribe, which was inhabiting the oasis of El -Ayoun, north of Al -Ahsa. The rest of the oasis residents, declaring the emergence of a local tribal force later known as the eyes. Abdullah bin Ali had a great ambition and what helped him in his awareness of the reality of the political, military and social reality of Bahrain’s areas, so he developed an integrated plan to establish his emerging state, trying to employ the surrounding conditions and good exploitation in his favor, in addition to his awareness of the confusion of the competing forces and entities in Bahrain, including the weakness of the destructive Carmatian movement, which fully lost its influence in the northern Badia of Bahrain, and retreated to Al -Ahsa After the progress of the Arab tribes in line with the Abbasid caliphate in southern Iraq and northern Bahrain.
This coincided with the emergence of other local forces in other areas of Bahrain that contributed to weakening and expelling the Carmatians from those aspects, including what Abu al -Bahloul Al -Awam had done in the first from the announcement of the establishment of the Al -Zajaj and its liberation from the influence of the Carmatians. This was followed by the emergence of other local forces in Qatif, announcing the expulsion of the Carmatians from them and the announcement of the establishment of the Emirate of Al -Ayyash in it.
In front of this reality in Bahrain and the Abbasid caliphate endeavors in Baghdad and the Seljuks to get rid of the Carmatians and restore the influence of the Abbasid caliphate in the regions adjacent to Iraq, including Bahrain and the Arabian Peninsula, the leader of the family of the eyes sought to seize opportunities by taking the appropriate bold decision in alliance with the Abbasid Caliphate and Seljuk, asking them to support and support to confront the remaining Carmatians, and actually supported the caliphate Military, financially and morally, all of this enabled him to strike and eliminate the Carmatians movement and end a dark page that has wreaked corruption on the ground.
So that he will start and move with his family from a mere tribal leadership in the oasis of El -Ayoun to an Arab country in the rest of Bahrain, taking advantage of the support and recognition of the Abbasid caliphate and the expertise he gained and the acceptance of the people of Bahrain to him as a result of his ability to fold the Carmatian page permanently, and all of this enabled him to move to extend his influence in the areas of Bahrain, as he managed to end the role of the Ayyash family in Qatif and the state of the state of the country The areas of the Bahrain region.
In addition, a united Arab country whose rule extended for nearly a century and a half of time in a difficult historical stage, as it was one of the priorities of its tasks to unify the areas of Bahrain under local Arab leadership in addition to reorganizing and arranging the conditions of Bahrain administratively and economically and removing and overcoming the effects and negative social and intellectual negative and intellectual waste left by the Carmatians in its abhorrent stage.
The rule of the Ayouna state was circulated by twenty princes whose rule included all the aspects of the Bahrain region, including first, and he emerged among the princes Al -Fadl bin Abdullah, who focused on achieving security, peace, stability and reviving the economic movement, and the grandson Abu Sinan, who walked in managing the state on the approach of its founder, followed by ensuring the unity of the country and stimulating its commercial movement and preserving the administrative, intellectual and societal system in it.
The Oumen state sought the Bahrain administration by taking advantage of the local capabilities while consolidating its existence and relations in its strategic depth with the regions of the Arabian Peninsula, and all of this represents the geographical, human, political, social, economic and intellectual extension that guarantees the unity of Bahrain and achieving homogeneity, political stability, development and economic renaissance in it.
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