File [10/4] British relations with Ibn Sa`ud: Ikhwan raids on Iraq and Kuwait [‎15r] (29/602)

Content

This file contains correspondence related to the British Government's relationship with Ibn Sa'ud [‘Abd al-‘Azīz bin ‘Abd al-Raḥmān bin Fayṣal Āl Sa‘ūd].

Specifically, the correspondence relates to Ikhwan raids into Iraqi and Kuwaiti territory, Ibn Sa'ud's inability to stop them and what measures (including military force) should be adopted by the British authorities in response to them.

The principal correspondents in the file are British officials in Iraq, the Political Agency An office of the East India Company and, later, of the British Raj, headed by an agent. in Kuwait, the Political Residency An office of the East India Company and, later, of the British Raj, established in the provinces and regions considered part of, or under the influence of, British India. in Bushire and the Secretary of State for the Colonies in London. Also enclosed are a number of letters exchanged between Ibn Sa'ud and British officials (in Arabic with English translations).

In addition to this correspondence, the file contains the following items:

• a summary of correspondence exchanged between Ibn Sa'ud and the British High Commission in Iraq, October 1926 - November 1927 (folios 69-74);
• a record of conversations between Shaikh Hafiz Wahba (an adviser to Ibn Sa'ud) and British officials, January 1928 (folios 104-111);
• a list of pre-written replies to arguments used by Ibn Saud in his letters regarding the Ikhwan and Iraqi sovereignty (folios 146-164, 209-214);
• a 'Note on the Situation in Najd from Kuwait' written by Lieutenant-Colonel Harold Richard Patrick Dickson, 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. in Kuwait, 25 November 1928.

Extent and format

1 file (299 folios)

Arrangement

The papers are arranged in approximate chronological order from the front to the rear of the file.

An index of topics discussed is contained at the rear of the file (on folios 299-300); the folios used in this index relate to an earlier incomplete foliation system that is in uncircled pencil 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

Foliation: the main foliation sequence (used for referencing) commences at the front cover with 1, and terminates at the inside back cover with 301; these numbers are written in pencil, are circled, and are located 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. Two additional foliation sequences are also present in parallel between ff 2-300, and ff 245-298; these numbers are also written in pencil, but are not circled.

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English and Arabic in Latin and Arabic script

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