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'File 53/7 D (D 7) Koweit [Kuwait] Affairs, January 1905 - December 1905' [105r] (218/366)
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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00102®
a wealthy merchant. It was Hajl Ahmed's clerk who accompanied
the Sheikh of BahreiB's cousin when the latter visited me
last week.
It is said that the Vali invited the above four sepa
rately to his house yesterday evening and when they had all
assembled he showed them his order for their arrest, some
say they were then and there handcuffed and about midnight
seat out of town*
They are evidently political suspects and it may be
they are connected with "The Arabian Movement H (vide the
London letter in the Times of India for the week ending 15th
February 1905) which is said to be in progress in Mesopotamia,
Syria and Palestine.
Some 30 members of the Hillif Secret Society of Kar-
bala, who have been imprisoned here for the last two years,
were also deported to Mosul yesterday. It is said they have
been sent there to be tried.
Another reason given for deporting the two Aloosi
2adas and Abdul Razak Effendi is that they have written a
book in praise of the V /ahabi religion. This book was sent to
Egypt to be printed and the cost of printing it was financed
by Haji Ahmed ibn 31 Assafi.
It is also said that these four individuals will not
be allowed to live in future in any Arabian town of the
Ottoman
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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.
- Extent and format
- 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.
- Physical characteristics
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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- English and Arabic in Latin and Arabic script View the complete information for this record
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- IOR/R/15/1/477
- Title
- 'File 53/7 D (D 7) Koweit [Kuwait] Affairs, January 1905 - December 1905'
- Pages
- front, back, spine, edge, head, tail, front-i, 1r:19r, 20r:101v, 102ar:102av, 102r:178v, back-i
- Author
- East India Company, the Board of Control, the India Office, or other British Government Department
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- Open Government Licence