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File 756/1917 Pt 2-3 ‘ARAB BULLETIN Nos 66-114’ [299v] (607/834)
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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stating that any kind of a rebellion in Medina against Fakhri
was utterly impossible owing to the power of his control. This,
I think, he did with the intention of discouraging the Arabs
from aggressive measures. He certainly did his utmost to
dissuade me from recommending Allied military assistance for
the Emirs.
Notwithstanding its obvious futility, it is not at all
impossible that there may have been some scheme in embryo
for a resuscitation of the Turkish regime in which Fakhri’s
force, Ibn Sand, and the troops in Asir and Yemen were to take
part in collusion with revolutionaries in Turkey proper.
H. Garland.
A VISIT TO SABIA.
On November 29, 1918, Captain Mohammed Fazl ud-Din,
I.M.S., paid a visit at idrisi’s invitation to Sabia in the company
of Seyyid Mustapha Idris and his brothers. His report contains
the first detailed account of Idrisi’s capital given us by an eye
witness. The author, who has been conducting a hospital at
Abu Halah, had gained Idrisi’s confidence and favour by his
efforts to cleanse and sanitate Midi and Jeizan, for whose
indescribably dirty and unhealthy condition Idrisi excused him
self on the ground of his incessant preoccupation with war.
Midi, which is much the larger town, had been occupied for over
a month by 3,000 to 6,000 mountaineer mercenaries, and owed its
state to their filthy habits. Idrisi seems to have lent every
assistance towards the scavenging of those towns and the estab
lishment of incinerators, and it was probably his consciousness that
his capital was in little better condition that led him to invite the
doctor to visit it. Sabia suffers much and continually from
fever, and the inhabitants ascribe it to the water or the air.
Captain Mohammed Fazl ud-Din, however, states that the water is
unusually good and sweet, and that the plague is due to the
abundant breeding grounds of anopheles afforded by the place.
He gives an account of the Founder of the Idrisi House
which does not add much to our knowledge, beyond the fact that
it was at the invitation of a disciple, the learned Seyvid Abdur
Rahman Abdel Zubadi, that Seyyid Ahmed Idris stayed at Zebid
for two years before settling at Sabia, where the founders of the
Senussi and Morghani tankas both visited him frequently.
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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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