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File 756/1917 Pt 2-3 ‘ARAB BULLETIN Nos 66-114’ [‎250r] (508/834)

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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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on their behaviour. They must give a fresh undertaking in
writing not to cross the Anglo-Koweit boundary, giving approved
hostages as a guarantee of the fulfilment of the promise.
The Aslam and the other four sections of the Shammar now
in our sphere, will, similarly, be called on to provide hostages for
their good conduct, and must understand that they may not enter
or camp in Koweit territory, nor raid east of the Batin—Koweit s
western boundary—and a line prolonged from the head of the
Batin to Zubeir.
There is little doubt but that the sheikhs concerned will
demand that similar restrictions be placed by Ibn Sand on tribes
with whom they are at feud.
The Suhai of Khurma.
The following geographical and tribal information about
Khurma is taken from a telegram of Mr. Philby’s dated June 6,
which has only just reached us by post. It should be compared
with the information from the same source given on page 74.
The permanent population of Khurma is about three thousand,
mostly negroes ; but the owners of the palm groves, Bedouin of
the Subai tribe, swell the population in the date season to ten
thousand. The Subai is a tribe with some sections m eastern
Neid on the Anna plateau, and the remainder between Wadi A seasonal or intermittent watercourse, or the valley in which it flows. Naim
and Shaib Shaba. This tract includes Khurma and Wadi A seasonal or intermittent watercourse, or the valley in which it flows. Subai,
and is bounded by the Ateiba on the east and north, and by the
Buqum and Qahtan on the west and south respectively, the
Ikhwan movement has made considerable progress among the
Subai, who have a flourishing settlement at Dhabaa in K harj, which
was founded last year, and contains five hundred armed men ;
while the Subai of Khurma have adopted the Ikhwan tenets more
or less en bloc. [Note by Arab Bureau: From information
supplied to Colonel Lawrence {see page 245) it appears that onlv
some sections of the Subai have gone over to the Wahhabis, and
that those who held out against their propaganda were expelled
by Emir Khalid, who proposed to hand over their properties to
converted peasants.]
Billi and Moahib.
In continuation of his notes, published on page 221, Bimbashi
Bright sends the following information about the Rifada family:
° “ The family is divided into two main branches: on the one
side, the sons of Suleiman Pasha An Ottoman title used after the names of certain provincial governors, high-ranking officials and military commanders. , and on the other side Hamid
ibn Rifada and his brothers Mohammed, Hamud and Rashid.
There is an old quarrel between the two parties—a blood feud.
About eight years ago, at a time when Hamid and his brothers
were taking refuge with the Huweitat, a raid occurred between
the Billi and the Huweitat in which another brother of Hamid
(not mentioned above) was killed. Ihe King patched up a tem
porary peace between the two branches during the recent visit of
Ibrahim and Hamid to Mecca. Since this visit Ibrahim and his

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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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