'File XXV/7 Arabian Politics (including Iraq). Bin Saud, Akhwan, the Hejaz, 1920-1928' [51r] (112/494)
The record is made up of 1 volume (239 folios). It was created in 16 Jul 1919-1 Mar 1928. 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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Agency
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• :? of*p*no« Bahrain
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4 ^ .1 ?th April, I b* £ t* *ubmlt th» faljawin.. remark
(a) 3y*l All bin Salim. Thin man ia a well kn*wn
cnaraoter ani the fallowing infematisn *n his anteceients
an! History may b« llluainating. He is All bin Sails bln
Th#w@inl, that t« th« s^n af th® Salim wh@ murdered his
father Theweinl, Sultan ef Muscat at gehar* The eeaplete
failure ef Salim te establish his pewer, the electien ©f
Azzan bin Qals as laa® ef Muscat and Oman, the removal ^f
Salim from Muscat under the protection ef the then Political
A&ent t# Qishim are matters ©f history* From Qishi© he went
Nejd and asked help from the Emir ©f that time t© attack
Muscat and establish his power* As a refugee he was honoured
in Nejd and obtained help. After some adventures he was
finally exiled t© Hyderabad where he died.
All bin Salim, who is the father-in-law of the
^ present Sultan, is in hopeless debt and a well known beg & ar.
Two years age he endeavoured to go to Zanzibar but tne
: Su itan of Zanzibar knowing his reputation and not wishing to
have a waster grafted onto hia whoa by Arab custom he would
be eoapellei to su -port, cat.g.ric.Uy refused. Hi. present
^ „ ir «i T an effort to raise itoney.
travels and rsnarks are purely
The Sheikh of Bahrein has given hia Rs.lQOC/-. ^*f wnich
has been remitted to Muscat to pay *ff *•”•* Fr ®“ **
, „ . n «.H and the Arab custoa of help
- reception of his father in heji ar
v.-. thomselves as "aadhlun" he hopes ts
to th.se describing th«sselves t
*h«re The Sultan had snly given AH
get some sore money there. - •*«
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- Content
This volume contains correspondence and several documents concerning a number of topics related to the Arabian Peninsula as follows:
- 'Note on the Khurma Dispute by Captain Garland with Sketch Map (with Appendix Dated 10th June 1919)' (folios 5-10)
- 'Notes on the "AKHWAN" Movement' by Harold Richard Patrick Dickson, 1920 (folios 18-32)
- 'Note by Miss G.L. [Gertrude Lowthian] Bell', 1920 (folios 34-37)
- 'Hejaz Post-War Finance' written by the Foreign Office's Arab Bureau, 1919 (folios 39-41)
- 'Note on the political situation in Bahrein as existing at the end of 1919, with suggestions and proposals for improving the situation' (folios 97-101)
- 'Note on history of Zubara and Claims of Shaikh of Bahrein to Zubara' (folio 108)
- A map of Qatar and Bahrain (folio 110)
- 'Memorandum on the British Position on the Arabian Littoral of the Persian Gulf The historical term used to describe the body of water between the Arabian Peninsula and Iran. . 1921' (folios 141-149)
- 'Diary of Journey from Bahrein to Mecca' written by Khan Sahib Saiyid Siddiq Hassan, 1920 (folios 160-173)
- 'Report of Shaikh Farhan Beg Al Rahmah of the Muntafik, Personal Assistant to Major H.R.P. Dickson, C.I.E., Political Agent A mid-ranking political representative (equivalent to a Consul) from the diplomatic corps of the Government of India or one of its subordinate provincial governments, in charge of a Political Agency. , Bahrein, who accompanied the Nejd mission from Bahrein to Mecca via Riyadh and back' (folios 173-178)
- 'Note on the tracts and tribes of South Hasa, Trucial Oman A name used by Britain from the nineteenth century to 1971 to refer to the present-day United Arab Emirates. , "Independent Oman" and Dhahirah (Oman Sultanate), located between the coast of the Persian Gulf The historical term used to describe the body of water between the Arabian Peninsula and Iran. and Ruba' al Khali (the Great Salt Desert)' (folios 197-199)
- Government of India printed correspondence on Ikhwan raids into Iraq and Kuwait, 1927-28 (folios 208-238).
The majority of the correspondence in the volume is internal correspondence between British officials in Iraq, India and the Gulf, but it also contains a limited amount of translations of letters that were sent to British officials by Ibn Saud (‘Abd al-‘Azīz bin ‘Abd al-Raḥmān bin Fayṣal Āl Sa‘ūd).
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- 1 volume (239 folios)
- Arrangement
The papers are arranged in approximate chronological order from the front to the rear of the volume.
- Physical characteristics
Foliation: the foliation sequence (used for referencing) commences at the first folio with 1 and terminates at the last folio with 239; 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 foliation sequence does not include the front and back covers, nor does it include the leading and ending flyleaves. A previous foliation sequence between ff 203-238, which is also circled, has been superseded and therefore crossed out.
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- 'File XXV/7 Arabian Politics (including Iraq). Bin Saud, Akhwan, the Hejaz, 1920-1928'
- Pages
- front, back, spine, edge, head, tail, front-i, i-r:ii-v, 1r:62v, 67r:109v, 111r:114v, 120v:200v, 202r:216r, 218r:219v, 221r:223v, 225v:239v, iii-r:iv-v, back-i
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