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PZ 2934/37 'The Caliphate (of Islam)' [53r] (105/136)
The record is made up of 1 file (65 folios). It was created in 10 May 1930-8 Mar 1939. It was written in English and French. 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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(E 1982/1662/65)
No. 4^.
(494/2/37)
BRITISH EMBASSY
April 2nd, 1937
CAIRO
Sir
With reference to my despatch No.320 of March 12th last,
I have the honour to report that Aziz Izzet
Pasha
An Ottoman title used after the names of certain provincial governors, high-ranking officials and military commanders.
, in the course of
a conversation with the Oriental Secretary at the Mohammed Ali Club,
suggested the desirability of establishing the Caliphate in Egypt
in order to counteract Mussolini*s Islamic Pretensions.
2. Mr. Smart explained that the policy of His Majesty’s
Government had always been not to interfere ±i the Caliphate question
which was one for Muslims to decide. It was a matter of general
Muslim consent. He (Aziz Izzet) was no doubt aware of Turkish
apprehensions and of the difficulty of getting Muslim States in
present conditions to agree to their at least moral subordination
to one State invested with the Caliphate.
3. The Regent said that the Turkish opposition was an element
against the scheme but he thought the other Muslim States would
accept an Egyptian Caliph. In reply to an enquiry whether he
thought that Ibn Sa’ud would do so, Aziz Izzet admitted that the
latter’s acceptance was doubtful.
4. If Aziz Izzet
Pasha
An Ottoman title used after the names of certain provincial governors, high-ranking officials and military commanders.
returns to the charge I presume that he
should be told that this is a question on which we cannot express
an opinion, but that obviously it is a very delicate one and
Egypt would be well advised to approach it with great circumspection.
I have, etc.,
(Sgd.) D. V. Kelly
for the AMBASSADOR.
The Right Honourable
Anthony Eden, M.C., M.P.,
etc., etc., etc.
etc
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The file contains mainly despatches received by the Foreign Office, reporting on the Egyptian proposal to establish a modern Islamic Caliphate under King Farouk. The main correspondents are Sir Miles Lampson, British Ambassador to Egypt, and Sir Reader William Bullard, Minister at the British Legation, Jedda. They comment on the reaction and support for the revival of the institution of the Caliphate among Muslim leaders Ibn Saud (King of Saudi Arabia) and the Aga Khan (Aga Khan III), as well as among Egyptian and Turkish government ministers. The file also contains Government of India correspondence from the Director of the Intelligence Bureau in the Home Department, concerning the religious propaganda activities of Egyptian ulema (Muslim scholars) sent abroad, and a report about the likely reaction of Indian Muslims to a revival of the Caliphate. There is a personal memorandum in French, from the former Turkish minister General Chérif Pasha An Ottoman title used after the names of certain provincial governors, high-ranking officials and military commanders. to the British Government in 1930, advocating a Caliphate in Muslim India under the rule of the exiled, former Ottoman Caliph Abdul Medjid II. There are news articles published in the Pratap , Lahore, The Egyptian Gazette , Cairo and the journal Great Britain and the East , London.
The file includes a divider, which gives a list of correspondence references contained in the file by year. This is placed at the back of the correspondence.
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- 1 file (65 folios)
- Arrangement
The papers are arranged in chronological order from the rear to the front of the file.
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Foliation: the foliation sequence (used for referencing) commences at the front cover with 1, and terminates at the inside back cover with 67; 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.
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- PZ 2934/37 'The Caliphate (of Islam)'
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- front, front-i, 2r:9v, 12r:15v, 17r:22v, 25r:62v, 67r:67v, back-i, back
- Author
- East India Company, the Board of Control, the India Office, or other British Government Department
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