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File 756/1917 Pt 2-3 ‘ARAB BULLETIN Nos 66-114’ [‎253v] (515/834)

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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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(6) In obliging its Libyan subjects to recognise, in the
hultan of Turkey, the existence of a Caliph, the Italian Govern
ment was running counter to the belief of a large proportion
•of its subjects, who themselves realised that the Sultan lacked
one at least of the essential requisites of a Caliph according to
Moslem tradition. B
(c) In admitting that the Chief Caliph of Libya should be
nominated by the Sheikh ul-Islam at Constantinople, 2 and in
deciding that his salary should be paid by the Imperial Turkish
Government (paragraph 2 of the Modus Procedendi, and Firman A Persian word meaning a royal order or decree issued by a sovereign, used notably in the Ottoman Empire (sometimes written ‘phirmaund’).
o the Sultan), and, finally, m agreeing to the nomination of
no local Kadis by the Chief Kadi, the Italian Government
lam ed over the native legal administration to a foreign
Government and renounced no small part of its own sovereign
ghts. It further confirmed the illegality of its occupation of
Libya and placed in a foreign Government’s hands the whole
of the Wakf Administration of the country.
The lta lian Government came to admit a sort of vice-
Sultanate in Libya by accepting the following conditions
By allowing a special representative of the Sultan, in his
apacity as Caliph, for the so-called safeguarding of religious
Procedltd^ 1 ^ f 1 ! 1 ' 0 *! 11 ’ and P ara g ra P h 2 the Modus
become^h’ °h\ a i he I ? per,al Firmm cal!s him . and, as has
ome the habit in subsequent publications of the Italian
ScTe"that - 5 b7 fUrther admittin g> ^ a special
cle, that le susdit representant est aussi reconnu a I’effet
ottohant t e V m . t ^ et h d \ 1 ’ Empire Ottoman et des sujets
ottomans ... (Article 3 of the Royal Decree quoted) • and
last y by agreeing that his salary, instead of being paid by
Turkish budget, should be found from “ les recettes focales ”
s occurs m the case of Viceroys whose emoluments are paid by
local taxation). This Vice-Sultan even became a guaXan of
Italian XTonf- “ ° f P ° SSlbIe ^nces against the
in wtacb fh n X" & matter of fact * “ the two speeches
Inch Shems-ed-Dm announced his mission from the Sultan
said- 8 ’"! 1 *" 6 P ? PUatl ° n ° f Tripoli and Benghazi, he literally
a watchful naXon 0 ’^ 0 " T " ° n behalf ° f the Sultan and aa
tchfol patron (»a»6a» ‘am-s-Sultan wa waUyan shahidan).
be nomina ed bv D t ‘X j Upreme in Libya is to
the local Kadis I i' Stated m P ara graph (c), and that
tLs for Lie Tta m P nominated by him, further complica-
ns tor the Italian Government must ensue The Turks in
ecTnfhTlf ofTa t^r ^ ^ool, which duriJ’X
second half of last century, they also imposed on Libya where
however, the inhabitants, by century-long custom and habit’
iad been following the Malakite school. In 1912 , however’

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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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