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'Field Notes on Sa'udi Arabia, 1935' [15r] (34/248)
The record is made up of 1 volume (120 folios). It was created in 1936. 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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(vi) Wejh, with jurisdiction over the Billi.
(vii) Umm Lajj.
(viii) Yenbu’.
(ix) Medina, with jurisdiction over the greater part of the Harb.
(x) Rabigh.
(xi) Qadhima.
(xii) Jedda.
(xiii) Mecca.
(xiv) Taif.
(xv) Ghamid and Zahran.
(xvi) Bani Shehr (Headquarters at An Numas).
(xvii) Lith with jurisdiction over the Bani Hasan.
(xviii) Qunfidha.
(c) Municipalities
The following towns have municipalities of a rudimentary kind :—
Mecca.
Medina.
Jedda.
Yenbu’.
Rabigh.
4. Judicature
[a) The Judicial Code
The basis of the law of Sa’udi Arabia is the Koran, and, therefore,
it is a code both religious and lay combined, which is administered by
the Arabian doctors of the law. In other more progressive
Muhammadan countries, civil law courts have been established or
extensive additions to the original Koranic law have been made in
order that the law may keep pace with changing human conditions.
In Sa’udi Arabia, primitive conditions and puritanism have combined
to preserve unmodified, the code in use in the 7th century.
Ibn Sa’ud’s pronouncement to the Indian doctors of the law after
the 1925 Pilgrimage, gives the Wahhabi standpoint. He said :—
“ My belief and my confession of faith are those of the pious
ancestors ; my rite is their rite. Whenever there is an explicit
Koranic verse, or an authentic saying of the Prophet, or a
prescription dating back to the first four Caliphs, confirmed by
the unanimous conduct of the companions of the Prophet ; when
agreement between the four Imams, founders of the juridicial
rites, can be established, or agreement among their successors,
the ’Ulama, without departing from the Koran and the Tradi
tions, in all these cases I adopt no other beliefs, but profess what
our pious predecessors professed.”
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The volume, marked confidential, is Field Notes on Sa'udi Arabia, 1935 , prepared by Donald Banks of the Air Ministry, by command of the Air Council.
The volume begins with a brief forward (folio 2) in which the geographical scope is outlined. The volume is then divided into nine chapters (I-IX) with appendices, as follows:
I - History
II - System of Government
III - Population
IV - Political Geography
V - Physical Geography
VI - Climate and Meteorology
VII - Communications
VIII - Resources
IX - Armed Forces
Appendices - Weights and Measures, Coinage, Calendar and Time, Note on the state of Wahhabism viewed from a military standpoint, Note on Zakat
The volume contains the following route reports:
1. 'Uqair to Riyadh, via al Hasa
2. Riyadh to Wadi A seasonal or intermittent watercourse, or the valley in which it flows. Fatima (near Jedda)
3. Jumaima to Medina
4. Riyadh to Kuwait
The volume contains nineteen maps and plans, as follows:
- Imperial Air and Sea Routes (folio 29)
- Tribal Areas (folio 23)
- Administrative Divisions (folio 33)
- Town Plans of Jedda, Mecca, Medina, Riyadh, and Taif (folios 40, 42, 43, 45, and 46, respectively)
- Diagrammatic Section of Middle Sa'udi Arabia (folio 50)
- Physical Geography (folio 54)
- Chart showing Magnetic Variation in Arabia (folio 59)
- Communications in Sa'udi Arabia (folio 64)
- Diagram of Principal Watering Points, Frontier Posts and Garrisons (folio 70)
- Tribes of Asir (folio 76)
- Panorama of the town of Marat (folio 98)
- Panorama of Muwaih (folio 101)
- Sketch Plan of Muwaih (folio 100)
- Sketch of route Rumaihiya-Jarya (Route Report No. 4) (folio 109)
- General Map (folio 121)
- Extent and format
- 1 volume (120 folios)
- Arrangement
At the beginning of the volume (folios 4-7) is a list of contents with reference to the original pagination.
- Physical characteristics
Foliation: the foliation sequence commences at the front cover with 1 and terminates at the inside back cover with 122; 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.
Pagination: the volume also contains an original printed pagination sequence.
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- Title
- 'Field Notes on Sa'udi Arabia, 1935'
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- front, back, spine, edge, head, tail, front-i, 2r:41v, 42v, 43v:45v, 46v:108v, 109v:121v, back-i
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- East India Company, the Board of Control, the India Office, or other British Government Department
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