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File 756/1917 Pt 2-3 ‘ARAB BULLETIN Nos 66-114’ [238r] (484/834)
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 CALIPHATE.
The Arab Bureau is indebted to Lieut. F. R. Rodd, General
Staff Intelligence, for the following translation of “ Appunti
sulla natura del ‘ Califfato ’ in genere e sul presunto ‘ Califfato
Ottomano,’ ” by Carlo Alfonso Nallino, Professor of History
and Islamic Institutions at the University of Rome. The work
was printed by the Italian Foreign Office in 1917. We propose
to publish the translation in instalments.
CHAPTER I.
The Nature of the Caliphate. 1
Mohammed had founded a religion and a state at one
and the same time; 2 during his lifetime both had the same
territorial extension. In his capacity of Prophet and Apostle
of God he was the only religious authority. In his own con
ception, and in that of his followers, this function admitted
no delegation of spiritual or other powers, nor of the trans
mission of such powers after his death by inheritance. Divine
revelation, says the Koran, definitely closed with Mohammed,
after which believers had to follow his teachings faithfully
and no more. In the religion of Islam there are no traces of
religious hierarchy or brotherhoods of priests. . A parallel to
the Christian theory of Sacraments or intermediaries between
God and the individual is completely absent. To find any
thing which resembles in the least degree the spiritual powers
of the Greek, Catholic or Protestant clergy, one must search
among those late developments of Islamism which occurred some
six centuries after Mohammed, that is to say in religious con
fraternities. Here we do find real spiritual power and care
for the spiritual welfare of the members. These can only, however,
be said to exist in the relations between master and the adept,
who eventually forms part of the community after a novitiate
of his own free will. In no case do they affect either doctrine
or ritual.
The only succession to Mohammed to be considered after
his death, was that of the sovereignty over all the Islamic state
which, founded as it was on a common religion, was radically
different from those relations politically and socially prevalent
in that part of Arabia previous to the rise of Islam.
The questions which arose were whether, when the Prophet’s
political activities were at an end, the ancient separatist policy
of the tribes was to return ; or whether the state which had
arisen at Medina was to continue its existence unchanged,
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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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- Title
- File 756/1917 Pt 2-3 ‘ARAB BULLETIN Nos 66-114’
- Pages
- 238r:240v, 246r:248r, 253r:255r, 259r:259v
- Author
- Nallino, Carlo Alfonso
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