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File 2182/1913 Pt 11 'Arabia: relations with BIN SAUD Hedjaz-Nejd Dispute' [‎351r] (256/678)

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The record is made up of 1 item (336 folios). It was created in 16 Oct 1919-28 May 1920. 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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dawn. At 6.30 A.M. the castle gate opened and the Amir or
Commander came out, and after looking at horses strolled \
towards his ladies house. Bin »aud then rushed out and follow'
ed the Amir as he entered the castle, killing him on door step
forcing an entrance over his dead body. The capture of Hufuf
has ‘been described above so I won’t repeat it.
In tribal raids Bin Baud said he been as far as Jebel
Akhdar Oman, and several times to Jabrin Oasis chiefly in
pursuit of the A1 Hurrah, the toughest lot he had to deal with
into the Rubah al Khali and for months and months never drank
water only camel milk etc etc. He told me that among these
tribes paying Zikat were the Maanasir Ban! Yas, and Al Ali
of Oman. By paying Zikat they got protection from their enemies
This was one of Bin Baud’s strong points.
The A.lman he hoped would soon be in. Regularly, traders
he said came from Hadramant and Yemen via lie,']ran and many
were the letters from Oman, Trucial Coast A name used by Britain from the nineteenth century to 1971 to refer to the present-day United Arab Emirates. , Hadramant offering
loyalty. He had answered none owing to his friendship with
England. The Anaze had recently written him offering homage:
The fact that he insisted on the purest form of Mahomedanism,
and enforced Sheria Law in its fullest extent was drawing all
to his standard he said. In the evening I dined with Bin Baud
and found him as charming a host as few could find in the world.
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I Prom beginning to end he showed me nothing but courtesy: I am
distinctly impressed. As a man and a ruler he towers over the
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: heads of his people. He is a remarkable individual and born
leader. Intensely ambitious I should say, he scarcely knows
his limitations: the danger is that he will be carried away
by the Religious frenzy of his Akhwan. He outwardly appears
a fanatic. It is difficult to say if he is really such a
| person.
FEBRUARY. 7th.
Friday interviewed the Imam at 2.30. Talked on all
subjects. His attachment for us English is almost pathetic.
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Part 11 concerns British policy regarding the dispute between Bin Saud [‘Abd al-‘Azīz bin ‘Abd al-Raḥmān bin Fayṣal Āl Sa‘ūd, also referred to in the correspondence as Ibn Saud] and King Hussein of Hejaz [Ḥusayn bin ‘Alī al-Hāshimī, King of Hejaz] over Khurma and Tarabah [Turabah]. Much of the correspondence documents the efforts of the British to persuade the two leaders to agree to meet. It is initially proposed that the two should meet at Jeddah; however, it is reported by the Civil Commissioner, Baghdad, that Bin Saud refuses to meet King Hussein at Jeddah, Aden, or Cairo, and suggests a meeting at Baghdad instead. A number of other possibilities are discussed, including the following: the Secretary of State for India's proposal of a meeting of plenipotentiaries, either at Khurma or Tarabah, as an alternative to a meeting between the two leaders themselves; a suggestion by the High Commissioner, Egypt, that the two leaders meet in London; a proposal from Lord Curzon [George Nathaniel Curzon], Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, that Bin Saud should be induced to meet King Hussein on board a British ship at Jeddah, or, as is later suggested, at Aden.

Also included are the following:

  • an account from Captain Norman Napier Evelyn Bray, political officer in charge of the Nejd Mission, which recounts the last days of the mission's stay in Paris, in late December 1919;
  • a report from the High Commissioner, Egypt, on his recent meeting with King Hussein, which relays the latter's views on the allocation of control of Syria to France;
  • discussion regarding the growing power and influence of Bin Saud's Akhwan [Ikhwan] forces;
  • a note on the dispute by Harry St John Bridger, in which he volunteers to induce Bin Saud to agree to a meeting at any place (outside of Hejaz) suggested by His Majesty's Government;
  • memoranda and diary entries written by the Political Agent A mid-ranking political representative (equivalent to a Consul) from the diplomatic corps of the Government of India or one of its subordinate provincial governments, in charge of a Political Agency. at Bahrain, Major Harold Richard Patrick Dickson, all of which discuss at length Dickson's interviews with Bin Saud at Hasa [Al Hasa] in January and February 1920;
  • extracts from a report by the British Agent, Jeddah, Lieutenant-Colonel Charles Edwin Vickery, which recounts his recent interviews with King Hussein and the King's son, Emir Abdullah [ʿAbdullāh bin Ḥusayn al-Hāshimī].

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