'Relations with Ibn Sa'ud: note prepared by Arab Bureau, Irak Section'
IOR/L/PS/18/B251
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The record is made up of 1 file (5 folios). It was created in 12 Jan 1917. It was written in English. The original is part of the British Library: India Office The department of the British Government to which the Government of India reported between 1858 and 1947. The successor to the Court of Directors. Records and Private Papers Documents collected in a private capacity. .
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This note was written by the Arab Bureau, Iraq Section, in Basra in January 1917. It reviews the rise of Ibn Sa'ud [‘Abd al-‘Azīz bin ‘Abd al-Raḥmān bin Fayṣal Āl Sa‘ūd], his fight against Ibn Rashid and the role of Captain William Henry Irvine Shakespear, Political Agent A mid-ranking political representative (equivalent to a Consul) from the diplomatic corps of the Government of India or one of its subordinate provincial governments, in charge of a Political Agency. , Kuwait, in this conflict. Other topics are Ibn Sa'ud's relationship with Shaikh Mubarak of Kuwait and Ibn Sa'ud's battle against the Ottoman Turks in the context of British interests.
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- 1 file (5 folios)
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The note is arranged in twenty seven paragraphs.
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Foliation. There are three copies of this item, of which only one copy (the foliated copy) has been digitised. The foliation sequence is circled in pencil, in the top right corner of the recto The front of a sheet of paper or leaf, often abbreviated to 'r'. of each folio. It begins on the first folio, on number 1, and ends on the last folio, on number 5.
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- English in Latin script
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- British Library: India Office The department of the British Government to which the Government of India reported between 1858 and 1947. The successor to the Court of Directors. Records and Private Papers Documents collected in a private capacity.
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- IOR/L/PS/18/B251
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- 12 Jan 1917 (CE, Gregorian)
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IOR/L/PS/10/388: 712/17
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- 'Relations with Ibn Sa'ud: note prepared by Arab Bureau, Irak Section'
- Pages
- 1r:5v
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- East India Company, the Board of Control, the India Office, or other British Government Department
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