File 3665/1924 Pt 2 ‘Arabia:- situation 1924. H.M.Govt’s policy of complete neutrality regarding the future of the Holy Cities. Question of the recruitment of troops in the Aden Protectorate on behalf of the Emir Ali.’

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Correspondence concerning the British Government’s policy of neutrality in response to the invasion of the Hejaz by Wahabi [Wahhabi] troops under the rule of the Sultan of Najd, Ibn Saud [‘Abd al-‘Azīz bin ‘Abd al-Raḥmān bin Fayṣal Āl Sa‘ūd]. The correspondence covers: responses to the invasion by the Muslim League of Bombay [Mumbai], the Khalifat Committee and its leader, Maulana Shaukat Ali, and the President of the Supreme Religious Court in Egypt; the question of the fate of Islam’s holy cities; reports of attempts by the King of Hejaz, ‘Alī ibn al-Ḥusayn ibn ‘Alī al-Hāshimī, to recruit troops in the Aden Protectorate; the British Government’s disapproval of King Ali’s attempts to recruit troops in a British territory; the enlistment of Palestinians, Trans Jordanians and Egyptians in to the Hejaz army.

The principal correspondents are: the Home Department of the Government of India; the Foreign Office; the British Consul at Jeddah, Reader William Bullard.

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1 item (57 folios)

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File 3665/1924 Pt 2-4 ‘Hejaz-Nejd Situation’

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Ref: IOR/L/PS/10/1125

Written in

English in Latin script

Type

Archival item

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Original held at

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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Unrestricted

Archive reference

IOR/L/PS/10/1125/1

Former external reference(s)

P 3665/1924 Pt 2

History of this record

Date(s)

15 Oct 1924-26 May 1925 (CE, Gregorian)

Subjects

NeutralityForeign policy

People & organisations

British Agent and Consul General, JeddahGovernment of India, Home Department

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File 3665/1924 Pt 2 ‘Arabia:- situation 1924. H.M.Govt’s policy of complete neutrality regarding the future of the Holy Cities. Question of the recruitment of troops in the Aden Protectorate on behalf of the Emir Ali.’, British Library: India Office Records and Private Papers, IOR/L/PS/10/1125/1, in Qatar Digital Library <https://www.qdl.qa/node/9470> [accessed 10 May 2024]

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