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'File 61/13 I (D 133) Wahabis and Pilgrimage to Hedjaz' [171v] (354/431)
The record is made up of 1 volume (213 folios). It was created in 21 May 1923-2 Mar 1937. It was written in English and Arabic. 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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180. Haji Abdul Majid, the Malay pilgrimage officer, arrived at Jedda on
the 21st November, 1933, and Haji Muhammad Jamil assisted him as clerk from "
the 21st November, 1933, to the 25th December, 1933, and then from the 2nd April
1934, to the 3rd May, 1934. His work was satisfactory, as usual. Haii Ahdni
Majid left again for Malaya on the 3rd May, 1934.
(13) West African Pilgrimage.
181. According to the Saudi returns (see paragraph 34), 891 West Africans P ^
came on pilgrimage this year via Suakin and Jedda as against 509 in 1933. The i 10 ®
Saudi Deputy Minister for Foreign Affairs stated that, in addition, a further 0^
1,259 West Africans of all nationalities reached Saudi Arabia through the
smaller ports south of Jedda by
dhow
A term adopted by British officials to refer to local sailing vessels in the western Indian Ocean.
from Massawa. This is the first time that
the Saudi authorities have ventured on an estimate of the figure for these
clandestine arrivals, though this Legation has reason to believe that 1,259 is, if
anything, an under-estimation. In any case, they are thought not to have
exceeded a total of 1,600 souls. Certain signs have been detected which would
appear to point to a diminution in
dhow
A term adopted by British officials to refer to local sailing vessels in the western Indian Ocean.
traffic via Massawa, but it is still much
too early to establish this with certainty, as the recent Saudi-Yemen war must
have considerably restricted, during the past year, the normal flow of overland
pilgrims to Asiri ports. The Saudi authorities also are now betraying a
somewhat livelier consciousness of a traffic which unloads on this country an
unprofitable and burdensome type of pilgrim, and are reported to have turned
back a number of dhows entering their southern ports from Massawa.
182. The suggestion that the facts relating to the question of
dhow
A term adopted by British officials to refer to local sailing vessels in the western Indian Ocean.
traffic
\ia Massawa be ventilated in the International Elealth Office (see paragraph 193
of last year s report) was adopted, with the result that the Government of
Eritrea have, it is understood, received instructions from the Italian Government of t
in this respect. It is to be hoped that all West Africans on transiting the port a
of Massawa en route for the eastern littoral of the Red Sea will be dealt with, in I,
futuie, in accordance with the provisions of the International Sanitary Conven-
tion of 1926. It may be possible to present a more considered statement regarding (fl).
the piesent extent of the
dhow
A term adopted by British officials to refer to local sailing vessels in the western Indian Ocean.
traffic via Massawa after the 1935 pilgrimage (^)
season, when the factors mentioned above may be more accurately assessed, (c).
183. The Nigerian Pilgrimage Scheme (see paragraph 192 of last year's
report) was successfully initiated this year. Sixty-nine Nigerians took out the
new form of pilgrim pass in Maiduguri and all reached Jedda before pilgrimage
day At the date of writing this report (30th June, 1934) all but four have
eit tor their home, via Suakin, after collecting their return tickets and the sum 1®. Ai
or subsistence due to them in Jedda. Certain points of quite minor importance fisente
v> eie the subject of correspondence with the authorities concerned at the close line, a<
oi the twelve months under review. ®,
184. As foreshadowed in paragraph 195 of last year s report, an urgent
pro bleni con front s this Legation regarding the disposal of a large number of
t - aa o -nn St f ^ varying, according to different estimates, from
' -ApOO souls. The great majority of these have come on pilgrimage in
ows vm Massawa, in recent years and are now destitute in this country owing,
(a) to the tact that the demand for West African labour has decreased; [h) to the
a resu ^ ( a ) there is a marked increase in mendicancy, which has
led the baudi Government to enforce measures to rid the Holy Places of mendicants |
ot whatever nationality; and (c) that the African village outside the walls of Wd
e da was ravaged by fire on the 5th April last and several hundred British West li| t
Atncans rendered homeless. The situation, which as far as the fire-victims were
concerned soon became less urgent, remained serious at the end of the period under
review and was fully reported to His Majesty's Government and other British
authorities concerned. In addition, the new Italian Charge d'Affaires in Jedda
NN.is placed m full possession of all the facts of the case. It was suggested to
him that VV est Africans w^ho had come here via Massawa should return the same
ai J d ^at the Entrean Government should afford facilities, as they did in
Vu ' 0I \, e ' r return journey. He promised sympathetic consideration and
mi jsequentlv stated that he had reported the circumstances to his Government in
Kome.
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The volume consists of letters, telegrams, memoranda, and reports relating to the Hajj pilgrimage to the Holy Cities of Mecca and Medina. The majority of the correspondence is between the British Agency An office of the East India Company and, later, of the British Raj, headed by an agent. (later British Legation) in Jeddah, the Foreign Office, Colonial Office, and Indian Office in London, the British Residencies in Bushire and Aden, the High Commissioners in Cairo and Baghdad, the Political Agencies in Bahrain and Kuwait, and Ibn Sa'ud.
Contained in the volume are the annual reports on the pilgrimage composed by the Agent in Jeddah for the years 1929-1935 inclusive. Each report consists of some or all of the following:
- a general introduction;
- information on quarantine;
- statistics;
- information on health, transport, customs, 'mutawwifs' (pilgrim guides), religious policy, tariffs and the cost of pilgrimage, and pilgrims from other Muslim regions of the British Empire (India, Afghan, Malay, West Africa, Sudan, Iraq, Palestine, Transjordan Used in three contexts: the geographical region to the east of the River Jordan (literally ‘across the River Jordan’); a British protectorate (1921-46); an independent political entity (1946-49) now known as Jordan , Sarawak, Somalia, Zanzibar and East Africa, South Africa, Aden, Hadhramaut, Muscat, Bahrain, and Kuwait).
Other documents cover the following subjects:
- the Hajj under King Hussein and the implications of a Wahhabi conquest of the Holy Cities;
- an attack on Yemeni pilgrims by the Ikhwan in August 1923 and the subsequent fighting;
- an Egyptian Medical Mission to Jeddah, Mecca, and Medina to assist with the pilgrimage;
- Jeddah's water supply;
- a new motor road between Medina and Najaf;
- Japanese interest in the pilgrim trade;
- the formation and progress of a National First-Aid Society in the Hejaz and Nejd;
- the religious tolerance of the Wahhabis, specifically the kissing of the Black Stone in Mecca.
At the back of the volume (folios 205-206) are internal office notes.
- Extent and format
- 1 volume (213 folios)
- Arrangement
The volume is arranged chronologically.
- Physical characteristics
Foliation: The sequence starts on the first folio and continues through to the inside back cover, the numbers written in pencil, circled, and 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. The only irregularities are the first three folios (ff 1A-1C).
Fold-out folio: f 2.
There is an inconsistent and incomplete pagination sequence that is also written in pencil but is not circled.
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