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'Arabia. Handbooks prepared under the direction of the Historical Section of the Foreign Office - no 90' [32] (47/148)
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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32
POLITICAL CONDITIONS
already exists or social conditions are such as to permit
its propaganda; and its hold on its provinces will vary
with the fervour of their adhesion to the Nejdean
creed. Further, in proportion as its expansion brings
its rulers into relations with non-Wahabite or non-
Moslem peoples, the loyalty of the fanatical oasis folk
of south Nejd grows cold.
Such is the normal situation of an Emir of Nejd
and such the normal tendency of the reigning Emir's
subjects. But under abnormal conditions of religion,
when the Islamic world is profoundly disposed, by-
defeat or some less obvious cause, towards an ascetic
revival, the expansive capacity of Wahabism may
easily, as in the past, change the political map of
Arabia. Rude though the Nej deans be, their practice
expresses the spirit of theistic unity in greater purity
and vigour than that of any other considerable Moslem
community; and, when Islam is searching its heart for
the reason of God's manifest wrath, the eyes not only
of simple zealots in Arabia but of intellectual puritans
in India, Egypt, and Syria may turn once more to that
stronghold of primitive faith. At such a moment an
able Emir of the Saud House might again seize the
opportunity to issue from his remote oasis and purge
the borderlands. Kasim and Hasa would accept un
willingly; Jebel Shammar, being more genuinely
Wahabite, would fall an easy conquest. Beduins
everywhere are ready to be roused to an outburst of
fanaticism for the one God; in the central western bor
derland, the Asir highlands, there is constant sympathy
with Wahabism; and Idrisi, more friendly of old to
Ibn Saud than to any other prince in the peninsula,
and disposed, by the alliance of his tarika with that of
the Senussi, to preach fanatical asceticism, would
be not unlikely to fall into line. Mecca and Medina
hate Wahabis, as do Irak, Koweit, and, most of all,
Yemen; but the last alone could hope to be beyond
reach of the purge. Oman (at least, the northern part)
would not be unsympathetic. If the present Emir of
Nejd, one of the ablest of his line, were to use the
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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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