'Notes on the "Akhwan" Movement'
IOR/L/PS/18/B340
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The record is made up of 1 file (3 folios). It was created in May 1920. 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 printed memorandum is entitled 'Notes on the "Akhwan" [Ikhwān] Movement' by Major Harold Richard Patrick Dickson, which he compiled following his 1920 visit to ‘Abd al-‘Azīz bin ‘Abd al-Raḥmān bin Fayṣal Āl Sa‘ūd (Ibn Saud) at al-Hasa (al-Aḥsā’).
The note contains the following sections:
- I: 'General', including '(a) Authorities' and '(b) Nature of the Movement';
- II: 'A Short History of Akhwanism', including a note on 'Prayer';
- III: 'Beliefs';
- IV: 'Other Customs, Observances and Beliefs among Akhwan';
- V: System of Bin Sa’ud's Government and its Connection with the Akhwan;', including 'Administration', 'Judicial', 'Military', 'Revenue'.
Dickson notes his authorities from whom information was gathered as: Ibn Saud himself; ’Abdul Aziz Al Qusaibi [‘Abd al-‘Azīz al-Quṣaybī]; Fahad Al Bassam [Fahad al-Bassām]; Sulaiman Al Hawwas [Sulaymān Āl Ḥawwās]; Ibrahim bin Juma’ [Ibrāhīm bin Juma‘], Ibn Saud's confidential servant; members of Dickson's personal guard; Muhammad Effendi (Kurd), Treasury Officer to Bin Juluwi [‘Abdullāh bin Jilūwī]; and a member of the movement. The note also includes a list (folio 107v) of new towns ( hijar ) that have arisen in Najd under the movement.
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Foliation: The foliation for this memorandum commences at folio 105, and terminates at folio 107, 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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- 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/B340
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- May 1920 (CE, Gregorian)
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- 'Notes on the "Akhwan" Movement'
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- front, 105r:107v, back
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