'Correspondence with the Grand Sherif of Mecca'
- Holding institution:
- British Library. India Office Records and Private Papers
- Data provider:
- Qatar National Library
- Title:
- 'Correspondence with the Grand Sherif of Mecca'
- Date:
- 1914/1916
- Description:
- Abstract: This secret file is a collection of printed correspondence. It contains telegrams between Joshua Milne Crompton Cheetham, Acting High Commissioner at Cairo, and the Foreign Office, letters from and correspondence between Shaikh Abdalla Ibn Hosayn [Abd Allāh ibn al-Husayn] and his father, Hussein bin Ali [Ḥusayn bin ‘Alī ], Sherif of Mecca, and Mr Storrs, Oriental Secretary to the British Representative in Cairo and Sir McMahon, High Commissioner in Cairo. The subject of the correspondence is the Arab revolt to obtain independence from the Ottoman Empire, with the Sherif writing to the British to request protection and acknowledgment of the Arab countries' independence under an Arab Caliphate.Physical description: The foliation sequence commences at the front cover, and terminates at the inside back cover; these numbers are written in pencil, are circled, and are located in the top right corner of the recto side of each folio. The volume also contains an original printed pagination sequence.
- Language:
- English
- Type:
- Archival file
- Type (Narrower):
- Other Texts
- Type (Broader):
- Text
- Subject:
- Caliphate
Arab Revolt (1916-1918)
Imperial Government of the Ottoman Empire - Geographic region:
- Mecca
Cairo - Rights:
- رخصة حكومة مفتوحة
- Identifier:
- 81055/vdc_100000000833.0x00024f_ar
81055/vdc_100000000833.0x00024f_en
IOR/L/PS/18/B222
IOR/L/PS/18/B222