Abstract: The file contains correspondence relating to the issue of whether a pension paid from 1918 to 1923 to Mr Naoum Abbo of Basra, an Iraqi national, should be continued.The correspondence includes:Letters and copies of letters between the India Office and Mackrell, Ward and Knight, including a copy of a letter to the Secretary, India Office, dated 29 January 1935 (folio 13), stating that their client, resident in Baghdad, is interested the request of Abbo - who the letter states was employed by the British Consul at Basra as Chief Dragoman for approximately fourteen years up to the outbreak of the First World War, and four years thereafter in the Political Department of the Government of India – for continuance of a pension paid to him from 1918.Correspondence between the India Office and the Foreign Office regarding Abbo’s case, including letters from the India Office to the Foreign Office enclosing copies of correspondence between the India Office and Mackrell, Ward and Knight, and correspondence from the Foreign Office to the India Office enclosing copies of correspondence between the Foreign Office and Mackrell, Ward and Knight. This correspondence includes a copy of a letter from D.J. Scott, Foreign Office, to Mackrell, Ward and Knight, dated 3 June 1935 (folio 2), in which it is stated that the question of the continuance of Naoum Abbo’s pension is solely one for the Iraqi government.The file also includes copies of earlier papers relating to the case, dated 23 March 1915 to 26 April 1923.Physical description: Foliation: the foliation sequence (used for referencing) commences at the first folio with 1 and terminates at the last folio with 42; these numbers are written in pencil, and are located in the top right corner of the recto side of each folio.
Abstract: The file comprises telegrams, despatches, correspondence, memoranda, and notes, relating to the case of Farhan ibn Mashur, who had committed various acts of rebellion against Ibn Saud.At the conference on HMS
Lupinin February 1930 (the Lupin Conference) the King of Iraq (Faisal I) had given an assurance to the King of Hejaz and Najd (ibn Saud) that Farhan bin Mashur would return to ibn Saud via Syria subject to a pardon. However, ibn Mashur was allegedly abducted on the way through Syria and this was seen as a broach of Faisal's guarantee to Ibn Saud.The King of Iraq offered to hand over Ibn Mashur's family and property to the King of Hejaz and Najd as a gesture of good faith, a measure which was accepted by Ibn Saud.The discussion in the volume between British officials concerns the practicalities of the case and the need to maintain cordial relations between the two monarchs. It also discusses the agreements at the Lupin conference and implications for British action in this matter.The file features the following principal correspondents: the Political Secretary to the High Commissioner for Iraq (R S M Sturges); the Private Secretary to the King of Iraq, Baghdad (Abdullah Beg al Haj); the King of Iraq, (Faisal bin Hussein); the High Commissioner for Iraq (F H Humphrys); the Secretary of State for the Colonies (Sidney James Webb, Lord Passfield); the Under-Secretary of State for the Colonial Office; the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs; the Under-Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs; the Minister for Foreign Affairs, Government of Hejaz and Najd; HBM Minister, Jedda (Sir Andrew Ryan); and the King of Hejaz and Najd (ibn Saud).Physical description: Foliation: the foliation sequence for this description (used for referencing) commences at f 46, and terminates at f 133, as it is part of a larger physical volume; these numbers are written in pencil, and are located in the top right corner of the recto side of each folio.
Abstract: The file comprises telegrams, despatches, correspondence, memoranda, and notes, relating to raid claims issuing between Iraq and the Kingdom of Hejaz and Najd.The discussion in the volume relates to the negotiations of compensation, final agreement and arrangements for payment and distribution to tribes.The file features the following principal correspondents: the High Commissioner for Iraq; the Secretary of State for the Colonies; Office of the Council of Ministers, Baghdad; the Minister for Foreign Affairs, Mecca; the King of Iraq (Faisal I); the Secretary, Political and Secret Department, Government of India.Physical description: Foliation: the foliation sequence for this description (used for referencing) commences at f 134, and terminates at f 202, as it is part of a larger physical volume; these numbers are written in pencil, and are located in the top right corner of the recto side of each folio.
Abstract: The file comprises telegrams, despatches, correspondence, memoranda, and notes, relating to the rebellion in Iraq in 1941.The discussion in the file relates to the military and propaganda measures taken by Britain against the pro-German Iraqi government of Rashid Ali and the implications for British policy and actions in the Middle East.Further discussion concerns:Demonstrations in support of the Iraqi government in Iraq and neighbouring countriesAnticipation of Axis military support for Rashid Ali and necessary British counter-measuresThe creation of a new pro-British Iraqi Government and arrangement of an armistice following the Anglo-Iraq war and the flight of Rashid Ali and his Cabinet to IranThe elimination of pro-Axis officials in the army and policeThe breaking off of diplomatic relations with the Italian Government and of the relationship with Vichy French authorities in SyriaBritish attitude and policy towards the Shiah and Kurds in connection with the reformed pro-British Government.The principal correspondents include: HM Ambassador to Iraq; HM Ambassador to Turkey; HM Ambassador to Iran; the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs; Air Officer Commanding, Habbaniya; the Secretary of State for India; the Viceroy; the High Commissioner for Palestine; officials of the War Office; and the Secretary of State for the Colonies.Physical description: Foliation: the foliation sequence (used for referencing) commences at the inside front cover with 1, and terminates at the last folio with 539; these numbers are written in pencil, are circled, and are located in the top right corner of the recto side of each folio.
Abstract: This 1662 Latin map of Arabia is a copy of an earlier map by Willem Janszoon Blaeu (1571-1638), the founder of the Blaeu cartographic firm. It is one of the first maps to show internal features of the Arabian Peninsula. Mountains are depicted, oases denoted by trees, and points used to indicate pearl deposits in the Arabian Gulf. The map uses dotted lines to show international borders. The Red Sea is denoted by three Latin names: Mare Rubrum (Red Sea), Mare Mecca (Sea of Mecca), and Sinus Arabicus (Gulf of Arabia). The Blaeu firm published the first edition of the Atlas Novus (New atlas) in 1635. Sons Joan (1596-1673) and Cornelis (died 1648) took over the firm after their father’s death and continued to produce expanded and improved editions of the atlas.Physical description: 1 map; color; 40 x 51 centimeters
Written in one column, 18 lines per pages, in black ink.The ms is incomplete and contain the following sections (ajzāʼ): section 43 (f. 1r), 58 (f. 32r), 70 (f. 60r), 67 (f. 69r), 68 (f. 119r), 76 (f. 231r), 77 (f. 261r), 80 (f. 319r). There are also parts from other sections, which lack title pages. Leaves may be out of order.Bound in light brown leather. Bound in India probably in late 19th or early 20th century.The ms is not dated but copied in the life time of the author, towards the end of it, and most probably in Baghdad. The book was read to the author and signed by him.Note in the hand of the author on f. 1r and on first folios of each juzʼ of the book: "qaraʼahu ʻalayya ilá ākhirihi Abū Muḥammad al-Ḥasan ibn ʻAlī al-Madāyinī; wa-katabahu al-Ḥasan ibn ʻAbd Allāh al-Sīrāfī."With this is bound a fragment of the section on letter bāʼ (colophon title: Kitāb al-bāʼ) of a dictionary (ff. 356-365). The author of the dictionary is identified as Abū ʻAbd Allāh Muḥammad ibn Jaʻfar al-Tamīmī al-Naḥwī in the colophon (f. 365v). The fragment is completed in the hand of the ʻAlī ibn al-Ḥasan ibn Abī Ḥanīfah on 4 Rajab 368 AH February 3, 979 AD. The manuscript was collated with the original one written in the hand of the author.Iran Jewett manuscript no. 1.MS Arab 438. Houghton Library, Harvard University.
Abstract: This work is a commentary in Latin by Italian professor and physician Giovanni Arcolani (died 1484, also known as Ioannis Arculani) on the ninth book of Kitāb al-ṭibb al-Manṣūrī (The book of medicine dedicated to Mansur) by the renowned Persian polymath Abū Bakr Muḥammad ibn Zakarīyā Rāzī (circa 865–circa 925). Known in the Latin West as Rhazes or Rasis, Rāzī was born in Rayy, just south of Tehran. He is generally considered one of the towering figures in medicine in the medieval period. His influence on the development of medicine in the Islamic world and in Europe was surpassed only by that of his fellow Persian scientist, Ibn Sinā (Avicenna in the Latin West). Rāzī studied alchemy, music, and philosophy early in life, before turning to medicine. He became the head of the hospital in Rayy and subsequently held the same post in Baghdad. Rāzī’s considerable clinical experience and the care with which he made and recorded clinical observations helped make him the preeminent clinical physician in the Islamic world. As one of the most important figures in medieval alchemy, he also gave detailed descriptions of many chemical processes such as distillation, calcination, and filtration. The scientist and scholar Muḥammad ibn Aḥmad Bīrūnī (973–circa 1048), a collector of Rāzī’s works, listed 184 works by Rāzī, 56 of which are devoted to medicine and related subjects. Rāzī’s most important medical work is the immense encyclopaedia Kitāb al-Hāwī, which achieved great renown in the Latin West under the title Continens. In 25 volumes, the work is rich with observational and experimental information. It was translated into Latin by the Jewish physician Fara̲j̲ ibn Sālim (known as Farraguth in the Latin West) for King Charles of Anjou in 1274. It was first printed in Brescia, Italy in 1486 and repeatedly thereafter. The Kitāb al-ṭibb al-Manṣūrī is a shorter work that lists the diseases afflicting the body in order, from head to foot. This book was dedicated to Manṣūr ibn Isḥāq, the Sāmānid governor of Rayy (whence its title). It also was translated into Latin in the 13th century. The ninth part of the work, on therapeutics, was often issued on its own. This commentary was published in 1542 in Venice by the shop of Luca-Antonio Giunta (1457–1538) and has some engravings of the surgical instruments mentioned by Rāzī.Physical description: 522 pages : illustrations ; 32 centimeters
Abstract: Abu Bakr Muhammad Ibn Zakariya al-Razi (also known by Latinized versions of his name, Rhazes or Rasis, 865–925 AD) was a Persian polymath, physician, and philosopher. He was born in Rayy, south of present-day Tehran, Iran. After studying philosophy, at around the age of 30 he began studying medicine under the supervision of Abu Al-Hassan al-Tabari. He became the head of a Rayy hospital and later headed a hospital in Baghdad. Al-Razi was known in the fields of medicine and chemistry, which he combined to prescribe medications for numerous ailments. Al-Razi’s Kitab al-Mansouri (Book of medicine dedicated to Mansur) is a short, general textbook on medicine in ten chapters, which he dedicated in 903 to the Samanid prince Abu Salih al-Mansur ibn Ishaq, governor of Rayy. The work was rendered into Latin as Liber ad Almansorem by Gerard de Sabloneta, a 13th-century Italian, who specialized in translating Arab medical texts and who is said to have translated the work of the great Islamic scholar ibn Sīnā, or Avicenna (980–1037), into Latin by order of Emperor Frederick II. The first Latin printed edition of Al-Mansouri was produced in Italy in 1481. This edition from 1500, containing the translation of Al-Mansouri along with other medical tracts by various Arab, Greek, and Jewish authors, was printed in Venice by Johannes Hamman.Physical description: 234 items