'File XXV/7 Arabian Politics (including Iraq). Bin Saud, Akhwan, the Hejaz, 1920-1928'
- Holding institution:
- British Library. India Office Records and Private Papers
- Data provider:
- Qatar National Library
- Title:
- 'File XXV/7 Arabian Politics (including Iraq). Bin Saud, Akhwan, the Hejaz, 1920-1928'
- Creator:
- Author: Cairo Intelligence Department, Arab Bureau, Iraq Section
Author: Gertrude Margaret Lowthian Bell - Date:
- 1919/1928
- Description:
- Abstract: 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. 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, 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, "Independent Oman" and Dhahirah (Oman Sultanate), located between the coast of the Persian Gulf 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).Physical description: 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 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.
- Language:
- English
- Type:
- Archival file
- Type (Narrower):
- Other Texts
- Type (Broader):
- Text
- Geographic region:
- Hejaz
Oman
Iraq - Rights:
- المُلكية العامة
- Identifier:
- 81055/vdc_100000000831.0x00025a_ar
81055/vdc_100000000831.0x00025a_en
IOR/R/15/6/34
IOR/R/15/6/34