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File 756/1917 Pt 2-3 ‘ARAB BULLETIN Nos 66-114’ [‎156r] (320/834)

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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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experience o£ a 01d Noll and Praise G^od B.xrebones in the
17th century have given us a horror o£ that regime which has
lasted down to the present time. The same is the feeling of the
average Mohammedan towards the Wahabi. If the Ikhwan
movement threatened to bring back Wahabism, Kuweit and the
Shammar would again be called on by the Qasimis to rid them
of the bugbear. , . . ,
Abdul Aziz ibn Saud is backing this religious moyement
heavily. He conceives that it will help him to realize his
ambition to establish an Arabian Empire once more. Already
he is beginning to look out for opportunities to encioac y on
territorial as well as tribal boundaries ol other sheikhs. He is a
terrible boaster. His latest effort, brought 8 t ®
other day and retailed to me by the latteig is that he will pi.
his standard at Malah (eight miles rom Kuweit) as hit ancestor
did. Abdul Aziz himself told me that all the °
Central Arabia, including the coast line o£ the Hotn 1 •
to Oman, belonged to him, and as for the mercWs of Kuwe ,
had they not all come from Nejd am cou 'y. . , . j,
themselves of their nationality as Nejdis or cease to be his sub ectef
Salim and the Ibn Sabah are pondering these things
ambitious i ^ ^ Abdul Aziz and Salim apart, there
aims were not enough to y e . e P . 0 r t i ie tW o chieftains
remains the sharp contrast m the f • dghi be tween them
whicb wouW seen* “ SI, 8 heroic, boastful and brave in
an impossibility, ion oa • i ' vp a preat orator and
the Achilles style, hearty, generous > m l e ’|j; |n is smaU in
an inordinate lover of women ant p He too seeks
stature, close-fisted, secretive, cac <^ , flows him and moreover
solace in the only pleasure s 0 £ Kuweit, but
manages to get hold of many f P* ett f ™ msp ection. Ibn
all is done quietly and with ^ a mere
Saud fancies himself as a p v,;, natural bent being towards
schoolboy in the world o P° ' 1 ’ , | | jf i,i s back were
action. . Sf.T,woull teke r mmecessary risks. His
up against the wail but v o ino dern Solomon. He
weakness is m nnagmmg m ^ p^ncipality and his angle of
has scarcely ever been out of the P r ’ ncl P a of mone ” and
vision is there nre ^ J iair ° o at not hing to compass his ends.
power and, i tancy, won y , • i f p ” w ith us and was
bn the other 81 "“ ^ Umitations and that the
worsted he has, one hopes,^ • tbp i on(r ran and is
power he loves so much derives from ^ '"“A ^n mind that
only his by our favoijr. c Zil hi s character-a
antipathetic, morose.

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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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