File 756/1917 Pt 2-3 ‘ARAB BULLETIN Nos 66-114’ [‎176r] (360/834)

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rendezvous. With this traffic going on and halt Qasitn getting
rich on it, we need not discredit the report that King Husein’s
shares are very low there, and our own not much higher. But
we need not necessarily accept all the common Jauf talk of Ibn
Sand’s own connivance in the trade and communications with
the Turks.
From the Euphrates side Kabeisa used also to do an active
contraband trade in cotton and other commodities. Small caravans
of fifty camels passed to and fro on a roundabout Damascus
road via Jauf and fetched stuff up from Kuweit.
King Husein's Grandfather.
The events, which led to the Dhawi Zeid losing the Emirate
of Mecca and the grandfather of the present King being installed
and retaining power, are worth rescuing from obscure contem
porary authorities which record them. In or about the year
1827, the Emir Yahya, son of the Emir Serur, regarded Ahmed
Pasha An Ottoman title used after the names of certain provincial governors, high-ranking officials and military commanders. , who was acting in Hejaz for Mohammed Ali of Egypt, as
an enemy ; and, finding that Shambar, a nephew 7 of his owm was in
frequent relations with the Pasha An Ottoman title used after the names of certain provincial governors, high-ranking officials and military commanders. , he stabbed the suspect in the
precinct of the Kaaba. Yahya then took to flight, and joining
the Harb, raised them against the Egyptians, and defeated
Ahmed Pasha An Ottoman title used after the names of certain provincial governors, high-ranking officials and military commanders. in a battle at Arafat. As matters seemed to be
taking a serious turn, Mohammed Ali represented to his suzerain
that it w 7 as not prudent to allow the Emirate to remain always in
one Sherifial family, and having under his hand, in Cairo, Sheri!
Mohammed ibn Abdul Mu’in el-Aun, of the elder (Abadila)
branch of Mohammed Abu Numei’s descendants, and grandfather
of King Husein, he invested him with the Emirate and sent him
to take possession with five battalions of nizam and a thousand
Moo'hrabi horse. The new Emir, Mohammed, landed at Yambo
on October 5 ; and, with the reinforcements brought by him,
Ahmed Pasha An Ottoman title used after the names of certain provincial governors, high-ranking officials and military commanders. was enabled to assault Taif, where Yahya was
installed. The latter fled, but was captured and sent to Cairo.
It was not, however, till Emir Mohammed had received at least
one sharp lesson in subservience, that Mohammed Ah allowed
him to feel safe on his throne. u , . i
Four years later, when the Pasha An Ottoman title used after the names of certain provincial governors, high-ranking officials and military commanders. of Egypt had invaded
Syria, Sultan Mahmud II tried to restore die Dhawi Zeid bherit
Abdul Mutallib, a young son of Ghahb Emir before ahya ibn
Serur, was then living at Brusa. Mahmud sent for him to
Constantinople and with gorgeous ceremonial created him Lm
of Mecca, presenting him, after the investiture, with his royal
portrait framed in brilliants. This was noted as an anti-Islamic
proceeding characteristic of a free-thinking ti ip i.
Mutallib was sent off to Asia Minor to join Husein Pasha An Ottoman title used after the names of certain provincial governors, high-ranking officials and military commanders. , then
on the march to reduce Ibrahim Pasha An Ottoman title used after the names of certain provincial governors, high-ranking officials and military commanders. to obedience : but news
of the Turkish disasters at Homs and Beilan forestalled the
iunction and it was not till nearly twenty years later (IcSolJ
that Abdul Mutallib was able to supplant Mohammed Ah s