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'Arabia. Handbooks prepared under the direction of the Historical Section of the Foreign Office - no 90' [28] (43/148)
The record is made up of 1 volume (69 folios). It was created in 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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28 POLITICAL CONDITIONS [Ko. 90
and, if he declared against the Turks, the geographical
position of his principality would render almost im
possible the materialisation of the other two dangers.
Furthermore, Emir Husein was known to desire inde
pendence for the Meccan Sherifate. In the eighteenth
century that independence had been attained in all
but name, but successive occupations of Mecca by the
Wiahabites and the Egyptians had set back the clock.
The first prince of the present ruling branch of the
Katada House, Mohammed ibn Abd el-Muin el-Aun,
appointed in 1827 by the Egyptian Viceroy, had to
trim his sails very close to the wind; and it w^as not till
his fourth son, Aim " er-Rafik," obtained the Sherifia]
throne in 1882, after seeing a brother murdered and
his own house dispossessed for two years by a rival
branch, that the Sherifate began to recover prestige.
Husein, nominated by the Porte in 1908, began his
reign by astutely undertaking for his foreign master
military operations Avhich served equally his own pur
pose of weakening native rivals, Ibn Saud and Idrisi.
That done, and the Porte laid under an obligation, the
Grand Sherif steadily encroached on the domain of the
Vali of Hejaz, till by 1913 his w T as the most effective
power not only in the rural districts but also in Mecca
and Jedda. In the summer of 1915 Husein opened
negotiations with us in earnest, and in June 1916
raised the standard of open revolt. By the end of
1917, when he had borne the title of " Malik " of
Hejaz for more than a year, and successfully presided
over two pilgrimages, Turkish authority had disap
peared throughout north-western Arabia from Kun-
fuda to Akaba, except at Medina, in its immediate
environs, and along the railway line of communication
from the north; and over most of that area it had been
replaced by the power of Husein. But, while in Mecca
and south Hejaz generally the King's rule rests on a
traditional local loyalty, and among most of the other
tribesmen who have supported him there exists
some vague sentiment of Arab nationalism, it
must not be supposed that he holds, or ever
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This volume contains information on the geography, political history and economic conditions of Arabia and was published by the Historical Section of the Foreign Office in April 1919.
It is divided into four sections: 'Geography Physical and Political'; 'Political History'; 'Political Conditions' and 'Economic Conditions'. There is an Appendix, containing tables regarding trade in Aden, Muscat and Bahrein, 1909-1917.
There is a map 'Sketch Map of the Persian Gulf The historical term used to describe the body of water between the Arabian Peninsula and Iran. and Arabia', compiled by the War Office on June 1914.
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- 1 volume (69 folios)
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Foliation: There is a foliation sequence, which 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 with text, on number 1, and ends on the map on a sleeve on the inside back cover, on number 70.
Pagination: There is also an original pagination, iv-vi, 2-127.
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- 'Arabia. Handbooks prepared under the direction of the Historical Section of the Foreign Office - no 90'
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- front, back, spine, edge, head, tail, front-i, i-r:i-v, 1:6, 1:130, ii-r:ii-v, back-i
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