'Note on Central Arabia'

IOR/L/PS/18/B334

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The record is made up of 1 folio. It was created in Oct 1919. 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 gives a very short history of Central Arabia in thirteen paragraphs. Details are given concerning the history of Nejd [Najd], the rise and spread of the Wahhabi movement, and the Āl Sa‘ūd family and their relations with their neighbours, including the Āl Rashīd family, the Hashemite rulers of the Hejaz, Oman and the Ottoman Empire, as well as Britain. Further details are given concerning the ruler Imam Abdul Aziz Ibn Abdul Rahman Ibn Faisal Ibn Saud [‘Abd al-‘Azīz bin ‘Abd al-Raḥmān bin Fayṣal Āl Sa‘ūd] and the signing of a treaty between him and Sir Percy Zachariah Cox in 1916.

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1 folio
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Foliation: The foliation for this sequence commences at folio 82, and terminates at folio 82, as it is part of a larger physical volume; these numbers are written in pencil, are circled, and are located in the top right corner of the recto The front of a sheet of paper or leaf, often abbreviated to 'r'. side of each folio. An additional foliation sequence is also present in parallel between folios 7-153; these numbers are also written in pencil, but are not circled, and can be found in the same position as the main sequence.

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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/B334
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B334 no 162

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Oct 1919 (CE, Gregorian)

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