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File 756/1917 Pt 2-3 ‘ARAB BULLETIN Nos 66-114’ [‎82r] (172/834)

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The record is made up of 1 volume (411 folios). It was created in 1917-1920. 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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the Hejaz sherifial clans to report births and deaths once a year
at Mecca ; these are entered in the official register, which has
been kept from time immemorial. Thus there can be no possible
doubt about Hejaz sherifs. All sherifs are seyyids, but compara
tively few seyyids are sherifs, since the latter are confined to
direct descendants of the Prophet, whereas the former include
those claiming descent from his agnates. The King spoke
dubiously about the Yemen ashraf and scouted the idea that the
present imam or any of the Qasim House had a connection
with Hejaz ashraf. Among the latter only the descendants of
Sherif Mohammed abu Numei are entitled, by custom, to the
Emirate ; and the succession has in practice been further narrowed
to the house of Barakat, which has parted into some five clans.
The Asir Abadilah are an offshoot of the true Meccan clan, but
number only some seventy families. The Juheinah owe their
sherifial status to the settlement of Abu Talib on Jebel
Rudhwah.
(fb) Idrisi Family.
I asked the King how the Idrisi family had come to super
sede the Sherifs of Abu Arish. He replied that Sherif Ali ibn
Husein, when driven out of the Yemen Tihamah in 1849 by a
combination of the Turks and the Imam, lost everything and
retired utterly impoverished to Mecca, where he died. But his
family are still leading notables at Abu Arish. Incidentally,
the King related a lively story of this Sherif Ali, who had been
governor of Zahriyab, routing a Turkish force and killing a
Governor, after stimulating a small body of a hundred and twenty
horsemen with qat to semi-intoxication. The original Ahmed ibn
Idris established himself as an alim at Sabbia in quite a small
way, and his son and grandson were mere faqirs, who sat at the
founder’s tomb and collected alms. _ The family acquired thus a
certain amount of wealth. But its political importance dates
only from the present Idrisi, who set up as a miracle-monger
after his return from Egypt. I he Furks remained quite ignorant
of his grovying power up to 1910, and he (King Husein),
when asked, could tell them little beyond the fact of his
existence. In the revolt of 1910, Idrisi was of much less account
than the chief of the Beni Mugheid ; but the incompetence of the
Turks in their campaign against the latter prevented them from
proceeding to Sabbia after the relief of Ebhah. Thus Idrisi
survived till, in the Italian war, he received large consignments
of arms and money and became of serious local account.
(c) The Asir Campaign of 1910.
The Asir revolt, headed by the chief of the
broke out when Abdullah Pasha An Ottoman title used after the names of certain provincial governors, high-ranking officials and military commanders. was G.O.C.
officer, though a Ferik, had been sent down to
three taburs, because he had fallen out with the
and he was put under a vali, Emin Bey, who
Beni Mugheid,
Hejaz. This
command only
Young Turks :
had previously

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Content

The volume consists of individual copies of the Arab Bulletin produced by the Arab Bureau at the Savoy Hotel, Cairo numbers 66-114. These publications contain wartime, and post-war intelligence obtained by British sources. They deal with economic, military, and political matters in Turkey, the Middle East, Arabia, and elsewhere, which – in the opinion of British officials – affect the ‘Arab movement’; the bulletins cover a wide range of topics and key personalities.

The volume contains the following maps:

  • A map of Central Arabia showing St John Philby's route from Uqair to Jidda 17 November to 31 December 1917: folio 103.
  • Sketch map prepared from RNAS photographs and reconnaissance by HMS City of Oxford of Wadi A seasonal or intermittent watercourse, or the valley in which it flows. Mur February to March 1918 : folio 170.
  • Sketch map of Hejaz (1919): folio 317.
  • Tribal sketch map of the Hadhramaut ‘showing only tribes of fighting value’: folios 333v.

Towards the back of the volume is a small amount of correspondence respecting the distribution of Notes on the Middle East ; the Arab Bulletin was superseded by this publication. Copies of numbers 3-4 of this publication can also be found at the back of the volume.

Tables of content can be found at the front of each issue. A small amount of content is in French.

Extent and format
1 volume (411 folios)
Arrangement

The Arab Bulletins are arranged in numerical order from the front to the back of the file. The Notes on the Middle East follow on from the bulletins at the back of the file in reverse numerical order.

The subject 759 (Arab Bulletins) consists of two volumes. IOR/L/PS/10/657-658.

Physical characteristics

Condition: the edges of some of the folios towards the back of the volume have suffered damage to their edges due to general wear and tear. The affected folios are 389-390, 407-409, and 412.

Foliation: the foliation sequence for this description commences at the first folio with 1, and terminates at the inside back cover with 413; 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. The front cover and the leading flyleaf have not been foliated. A previous foliation sequence, which is present between ff 357-363 and ff 374-412 and is also circled, has been superseded and therefore crossed out.

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