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44 * most of his successor's reign, Ali bin ` Abdulläh Āl Th ā n ī , ( 1949 - 1960 ) . Qataris were conservative Muslims, and therefore did not drank alcohol . 7 In 1952, the British Administration in the Gulf granted permission to the oil company in Qatar to import 200 cases of beer from Bahrain, for the workers of the company . 8 The demand for alcoholic beverages led Britain to define this subject in the Qatar Alcoholic Drinks Regulations of 1954, stipulating : No person subject to the Qatar Order in Council, shall, within the limits of the . 1 Order, make or manufacture any alcoholic drink . No person subject to the Order shall import into or export from Qatar any . 2 alcoholic drink without a permit previously granted to him by the Political Agent . No person subject to the Order shall, within the limits of the Order, acquire or . 3 dispose of any alcoholic drink whether by purchase, sale, gift, exchange or any other means without a permit granted to him by the Political Agent . 9 The Qatari legislation followed suit . Geoffrey M . Hancock, adviser to the ruler, said the ruler did not agree to alcohol import in any form . 10 The Ruler issued his Ordinance first in 1955, after his British adviser stressed the need for a law to control the import to Qatar . 11 The implication of this legislation was broad . Since July 1957, jurisdiction over residents from Iraq, Jordan, Syria, Lebanon, Libya, Egypt, Morocco, Tunisia, Afghanistan, Indonesia, the Sudan, and Stateless persons of Palestinian origin was transferred to the ruler of Qatar . Therefore, the ordinance affected the aforementioned residents, and they no longer could obtain permits to buy alcohol . 12 The harsh attitude of the ruler was reflected in the fact that Qatar charged its highest customs duty, 15 percent, on liquor imported for the use of foreigners with a permit from the Political Agent . 13 The high duty remained stable even when the ruler Hamed Al - Marwani, Islamic Religion in Qatar During the Twentieth Century : Personnel and 7 Institutions, Unpublished doctoral dissertation, University of Manchester, 1993, p . 90 . IOR / R / 15 / 2 / 1330 ] Political Agent, Bahrain to The Manager, Petroleum Development ( Qatar ) , Ltd . , [ 8 Bahrain, 26 November 1947 . FO539 / 109 ] C . J . Pelly, Alcoholic Drinks Regulation, No . 4 of 1952, 10 July, 1952 . [ 9 FO371 / 109929 ] C . H . Haines, 18 November 1953, pp . 1 - 2 . [ 10 FO371 / 126949 ] G . G . Fitzmaurice, The Qatar Customs Regulation 1957, 23 January, 1957 . [ 11 FO371 / 126872 ] Persian Gulf Monthly Report, June 28 - August 1, 1957, p . 2 . [ 12 Rupert Hay, The Persian GulfStates ( Washington : Middle East Institute, 1959 ) , pp . 40, 109 - 110 . 13
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