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'Historical Memorandum on the Relations of the Wahabi Amirs and Ibn Saud with Eastern Arabia and the British Government, 1800-1934' [‎4v] (8/64)

The record is made up of 1 file (32 folios). It was created in 26 Sep 1934. 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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Lor. 1,1076. punitive expedition. Shinas, which was held by a Wahabi Governor, was also
forced to surrender. The Government of India, anxious to avoid involving them
selves in any way with the Wahabis, turned a blind eye so far as possible to Wahabi
responsibility (as to the degree of which there is room for difference of opinion) for
the activities of the pirates and gave stringent instructions to the Political Resident A senior ranking political representative (equivalent to a Consul General) from the diplomatic corps of the Government of India or one of its subordinate provincial governments, in charge of a Political Residency.
to avoid involving himself in any way with the Wahabi power.
19. The Wahabi Lieutenant in Baraimi, Syed bin Mutlak, proceeded to Nejd in
1813, whereupon his successor, Ibn Azdakah, was murdered by the Beni Yas of #
Dhafrah. On Syed bin Mutlak’s return later in the same year, he was himself
Lor.I, 445, killed in action against the Hajriyin of Oman, and was succeeded by Ibn Mazru.
650-1, 1076. j n 1813 ^ anc i a g a i n i n 1814, the Beni Yas Sheikh of Abu Dhabi, who appears to $
have been more independent of Wahabi intiuence than the Jowasimis, on two
occasions combined with Muscat against the Wahabis.
In the autumn of 1814 the Wahabi Amir associated himself with explanations
Lor. I, 652. and assurances furnished by the de facto Sheikh of Ras-al-Khaima to the Resident
in regard to the piracies of the Jowasimis, consequent on which a preliminary
agreement, immediately violated by the Jowasimis, was reached in October 1814.
Bahrein and the Wahabis, 1804-1818.
20. The Wahabis assisted the Sheikhs to regain possession of Bahrein from
Muscat in 1801, but the islands thereupon came under the influence of the Wahabi
Amir, to whom they offered tribute in 1803, and with whom they co-operated in
that year and again in 1805 against Muscat. The Government of Bombay From c. 1668-1858, the East India Company’s administration in the city of Bombay [Mumbai] and western India. From 1858-1947, a subdivision of the British Raj. It was responsible for British relations with the Gulf and Red Sea regions. in 1805
gave no encouragement to suggestions from the Sheikhs for material assistance to
Lor. 1,842-3 enable Bahrein to withhold her support from the Wahabis, under whose control
they remained until 1811, when, with the assistance of Muscat, they again regained
their independence. The Sultan of Muscat subsequently claimed that Bahrein had
then accepted a liability to pay tribute to him, and in 1816 he made an attack
Lor. I, 844. upcm the islands which, thanks to the assistance of the Wahabis, with whom
and with the Jowasimis the Sheikhs now again allied themselves, was, however,
unsuccessful.
Koweit and the Wahabis, 1804-1818.
Lor - h 21. In 1803 Koweit, like the rest of the coast, was under Wahabi control, and
1007-8. t p at y ear -j. assisted the Wahabi Amir in an expedition against Muscat. In
1805 the Sheikh described himself as subject to the Wahabis. But by 1808
Koweit was strong enough to decline to respond to a further appeal for assistance ;
a Wahabi attack was "driven off in 1809, and the Sheikh of Koweit appears
thenceforward to have remained relatively free of Wahabi influence.
Qatar and the Wahabis, 1804-1818.
Lor. I, 791. 22. Wahabism was dominant in Qatar between 1809-11, but the Wahabis were
expelled by Muscat in the latter year and the authority of Bahrein re-established.
In 1816, however, Sheikh Rahmah bin Jabir of Khor Hassan and Damman sided
with Muscat against the Wahabis and the Sheikh of Bahrein.
Turkey and the Wahabis; 1804 to the Destruction of the Wahabi Power in 1818.
Lor. 1,1069. 23. In 1804 Mehemet Ali was appointed Viceroy of Egypt, chiefly in order that
he might recover the Hejaz for Turkey. From 1804 to 1810 he concerted bis
plans for achieving this object. Between 1810 and 1815 he reconquered the Hejaz
and drove the Wahabi Amirs back into Nejd. In 1815 his lieutenants advanced
into Qasim, and later in the year the Wahabis were severely defeated, submitted to
Tusun Pasha An Ottoman title used after the names of certain provincial governors, high-ranking officials and military commanders. , and sent hostages to Egypt, But the Egyptian Viceroy refused to
ratify the understanding reached, and was content with nothing less than the
complete subjection of the Wahabi Amirs. An offer to accept an Egyptian
Governor of Nejd and to pay tribute was rejected ; Deriyah was invested, reduced
and destroyed in September 1818 ; and the Wahabi Amir was taken prisoner, sent to
Cairo, and executed at Constantinople. His four brothers were sent to Cairo as
prisoners. The Wahabi power was, for the time being, completely destroyed, and
Turkish for rather Egyptian) control re-established over Nejd, Hasa, and the Hasa
coastal area in the Persian Gulf The historical term used to describe the body of water between the Arabian Peninsula and Iran. .

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The file contains a historical memorandum written in response to claims advanced by Ibn Saud to ancestral rights on the eastern boundary of the Saudi Kingdom, and to suggestions put forward by him that at some period in the past arrangements were entered into with his ancestors, the Wahabi Amirs, by representatives of the British Government, which afforded some recognition of those claims. The memorandum was written by John Gilbert Laithwaite, 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. , and is a revised edition of a document published on 1 September 1934.

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1 file (32 folios)
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The file contains a table of content at the front (f 2), and is then divided into six sections (ff 3-27), followed by four appendices at the end (ff 28-31), of which one is a map (f 30).

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Foliation - the main foliation sequence (used for referencing) commences at the front cover with 1 and terminates at the inside back cover with 32; these numbers are written in pencil, are circled, and are located at the top right corner of the recto The front of a sheet of paper or leaf, often abbreviated to 'r'. side of each folio.

Pagination: the file also contains an original printed pagination sequence.

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