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'File 53/7 D (D 7) Koweit [Kuwait] Affairs, January 1905 - December 1905' [7v] (21/366)
The record is made up of 1 file (181 folios). It was created in 9 Jan 1905-9 Dec 1905. It was written in English and Arabic. 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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know wbat its policy is. Meshed Ali (Nejef) is full of soldiers and the Nejd
people are tired of this everlasting fighting. They don't know l:ow to feed and
clothe their children. Nothing hut fighting." He went on to tell me how
Shaikh Mubarak hated the Turks and that Ibn Saood's coming had been
delayed, but that the latest news was that he was due at Jahra on the 27 th
instant and that Nasir bin Saood, the messenger whose arrival here was reported
in my diiry under date 18th January, was now in Bussorah.
8. The immediate object of the Shaikh's letter may possibly be attained by
the good offices of His Britannic Majesty's Consul at Bussorah, but it is difficult
to know what to suggest as a remedy for these constant skilfully disguised
attacks aimed at Shaikh Mubarak as a punishment for having sought our pro
tection.
9. There remains nothing for me to add except that I saw Shaikh
Mubarak on the morning of the 23rd instant. He confirmed all that has been
said above without my asking for confirmation except that when I asked if
Ibn Saood would go to Sefwan he said that he was not sure, that both Ibn
Saood and the people of Aneyza would be greatly alarmed at the turn things
had taken and that unless some measures were taken to counteract the latest
move of the Turks or rather as he put it of Ibn Rashid and Yusuf bin Brahim,
Ibn Saood would return direct to Nejd, the Turkish troops would march from
IvejefAli and Nejd would again be plunged into war. He said apparently
quite seriously thnt if His Excellency's advice was not taken with regard to
local matters of this kind he ought to resign.
10. Incidentally it may be of interest to note that he contrasted the
behaviour of the Indian Government who allowed Yusnf-el-Brahim's Bombay
house to trade in perfect security in Sfdte of the fact that Yusuf's men had
tired on the crew of a British man-of-war, wounding two m^n, and that of the
Turkish Government who, on the iiccusation of men like Ibn Bashid and
Yusuf-el-Brahim, threw the affairs of an important mercantile firm into
confusion.
He again impressed upon me the fact that Yusuf-el-Brahim, who, it
was arranged, should stay at the Hejjaz, was back in Nejef (Meshed All) in
close communicatioa with the Mushir of Baghdad and doins? all the mischiefs
he could. 6
Translated purport of a letter, dated 15th Zi-ul-Kada 1322 = 22nd January 1905, from Shaikh
Mubarak of Koweit, to Captain S. Gr. Knox, i 'olitical Agent, Koweit.
After compliments. Suleiman-us-Shubeyli is an influential merchant in
Bussorah and he lives himself in the town of Aneyzah (Nejd) and his relations,
Hamid-ul-Hammad, is his Busra Agent. This man, Suleiman-us-Shubeyli, is
an able man and a manager of important affairs. For some years there have
been business relations between Mm and myself and besides one of mv own
subjects a merchant Pahad-ul-Khalid-ul-Khazavi is in business relations with
him and his partner and friend; and the bulk of the trading monies of the
atoresaid house are to return to me and Fahad-ul-Khalid,
t ? o a r d :? 1 : H n atllmad who for Suleiman-us-Shubeyli has been
seized by the Turkish Government and they have imprisoned him on receipt of
an order that they should take him away to Constantinople.
and ^ f " A 0,lrS and the mono y that belongs to us
and to iahad-ul-Khalid is about 1,00,000 reals (£9,000) and the business
relations between us can be verified from the account books in the house
offlc 3 s OW the h011SeiS empty aild110 0116 18 after the property and
paud !Tn^
letter to'pXd-^K^aUJ^kiti^bfm ^ llas .' ,1 ? t sen ! •
his sole agent and saying that he should Ji 18 a PP 0 ^ ln ^ hi m
is present in Bussorah. 0 brothers or that Earhan
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This file contains correspondence between British officials regarding political developments in Kuwait and its vicinity.
The correspondence discusses the ongoing conflict between Abdul Aziz ibn Abdulrahman ibn Faisal Al Saud [‘Abd al-‘Azīz bin ‘Abd al-Raḥmān bin Fayṣal Āl Sa‘ūd (Ibn Saud)] and the ruler of the Emirate of Jabal Shammar and head of the Rashidi tribal dynasty, Abdul Aziz Ibn Mitab [‘Abd al-‘Azīz bin Mit‘ab] as well as Ottoman attempts to intervene militarily in support of the Rashidis and re-assert their authority in the region.
A limited number of letters contained in the file are direct correspondence between Shaikh Mubārak Āl Ṣabāḥ, the Ruler of Kuwait and various British officials. This correspondence discusses Kuwait's relations with both the Ottomans and the British.
The British authorities' desire for Bubayan island to be considered a part of Shaikh Mubārak's domains (at the expense of the Ottomans) is discussed at length in the file.
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- 1 file (181 folios)
- Arrangement
File is arranged in chronological order, from earliest at beginning of the file to most recent at end.
An index of topics discussed in the file is included on ff. 2-3. This index uses numbers related to the foliation system printed (using a mechanical stamp) 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.
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Condition: A bound file.
Foliation: The volume has been foliated from the front cover to the inside back cover, using circled pencil numbers in the top-right corner of each recto The front of a sheet of paper or leaf, often abbreviated to 'r'. page. There is an earlier, possibly original, foliation sequence that runs through the volume, which uses a mechanical stamp.
The following foliation anomalies occur: 1a, 102a.
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- 'File 53/7 D (D 7) Koweit [Kuwait] Affairs, January 1905 - December 1905'
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- front, back, spine, edge, head, tail, front-i, 1r:19r, 20r:101v, 102ar:102av, 102r:178v, back-i
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