File 756/1917 Pt 2-3 ‘ARAB BULLETIN Nos 66-114’ [261v] (531/834)
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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among Mohammedans of the faith, that at some possibly not
far distant time, that glorious past, when the infidel States
trembled before the world-wide power and conquests of Islam,
may dawn for them again.
Note to Chapter VI.
1 An exaggeration on the part of the
writer
The lowest of the four classes into which East India Company civil servants were divided. A Writer’s duties originally consisted mostly of copying documents and book-keeping.
, since, in Morocco,
in Algeria (after the French occupation), in the independent
Arabian States and in those of Central Asia, Khutbas have never
been offered for the Sultan of Turkey.
SOUTHERN NEJD AND DAWASIR.
We gave on page 294 a telegraphic summary of Mr. Philby’s
report on his trip to Southern Nejd and Dawasir. His full
report has just come to hand, but we do not propose to publish
it in extenso until we receive the map, which is being copied, in
Baghdad. To future geographers and students of Arabian affairs,
a study of Mr. Philby’s travels and researches will be indispensable.
The following extracts from his report are of general interest,
and are quoted pending the publication of the work as a whole :—
It is not surprising that Kharj, saturated as its soil must be
by the floods brought down into the valley year after year by
a great drainage system is, or rather I should say once was,
a fertile tract renowned for its prosperity. That prosperity
is but a dim memory now, having long given way to decay
which broods over the scattered evidences of a glorious
past, inscrutable as Fate, intensified by a century of strife only
recently ended. Yamama, that great city of the past, is choked
with sand ; Firzan and a nameless city on the eastern ridge, both
of an older date than Yamama, are now but heaps of debris, and
the life-giving springs of water are nearly dead from disuse or
misuse ; in fact, the northern section of the valley is a sorry
sight, and the scene of prosperity, on a greatly modified scale,
has shifted to the central part of the district where Dilam, the
modern capital, is surrounded by a number of fairly prosperous
settlements, entirely dependent on wells.
Apart from the fact that it is one of the most important
drainao;e collecting centres in Arabia, the distinctive features
of the Kharj valley, whose height above sea-level rises from
1.400* feet at the north-eastern corner to some 1,700* feet
* these and all like figures will probably have to be reduced, as my
aneroid on this occasion gave 1,950 as the lowest height of Riyadh,
whereas on my previous journey my results placed Riyadh at only
1,750 feet above sea-level.
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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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