'Personalities. 'Iràq (Exclusive of Baghdad and Kàdhimain), 1919' [‎9r] (22/318)

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'ABDUL MAJID KHAN, HAJI.
Of Muhammarah, Nasir-al-lujjar (Haji Rais's nephew). He is a well-educated
Persian, and has been to Europe. Age about 50 years. A frequenter of coffee shops,
where his gossip tends to promulgate the interests of the British Government. He is a
useful and influential man amongst Arabs and Persians. He is a Freemason.
‘ABDUL MUHSIN SHALLASH.
A leading merchant and banker of Najaf. One of the Hai'yat Muslihah, Conciliatory
Party, organised by the Turks at Najaf after the troubles of April-May, 1915. Since
the occupation of Baghdad has been constantly serviceable to us.
‘ABDUL MUHSIN IBN YtSUF.
Brother of Abdul Hasan of the Hamad, Mandali district. A disagreeable and
weak young man.
‘ABDUL NABI MUZAFFAR, SHAIKH.
Of Najaf. An Arab alim, leading a solitary life. He possesses influence in Basrah.
‘ABDUL QADIR BEG.
For 14 years Rais Baladiyah of Kifri, now Mai Mudir at Kirkuk. Highly respected
Kurdish gentleman. His father fought as a captain in the Crimea.
‘ABDUL OADIR EFFENDI.
Used to be non-tribal farmer of Abu Hallanah Muqata‘ah in partnership with Habib
al Shati. Fallahin Arabic for ‘peasant’. It was used by British officials to refer to agricultural workers or to members of a social class employed primarily in agricultural labour. are Bahadil. ‘Abdul Qadir is a great horse dealer, constantly visits
Bombay. Fine old man.
‘ABDUL QADIR EFFENDI.
Lessee of Waqf lands at Salman Pak ; unpleasant manners, avaricious, and always
dilatory in paying rent.
‘ABDUL QASIM AYATULLAH ZADAH KASHANI, SAIYID.
Of Najaf, now in Kadhimain. An intriguer and thoroughly pro-Turkish.
‘ABDUL RABB.
Pathan, British subject, of Quetta.
Dragoman in the British Residency An office of the East India Company and, later, of the British Raj, established in the provinces and regions considered part of, or under the influence of, British India. at Baghdad. On the outbreak of war he went
over to the Turks. He came to Najaf early in 1915, and on his return via Karbala saw
Saiyid Ahmad Lucknawi, q.v., whom he had known through his work on the Oudh Bequest,
and induced him to accompany him to Baghdad, ostensibly to obtain assistance from
the American Consulate. On his return, ‘Abdul Rabb received a large bribe from the
Wali, and was commissioned to preach the Jihad either in Afghanistan or Bokhara. He
got as far as Kirmanshah, where the British Consul was told to arrest him, if possible,
but could not succeed in doing so.
‘ABDUL RASUL AL SHA'BAN.
Of Najaf, ‘Amarah quarter. Bad character like his brother Hasan. The family
are Khadims in the mosque and merchants.
‘ABDUL RAZZAQ CHALABI. •
Rais Baladiyah of Hillah and landowner, estates in Hillah. Likewise merchant.
He is a man of great energy, intelligent, and has done excellent work as Rais Baladiyah.
He is backed by Saiyid Muhammad ‘Ali al Qazwini, who has very great influence over
him.’ His father was hanged by the Turks in November, 1917, after the Hillah riots.
An enthusiastic person ; he is very keen on the town. He is, if anything, too ready to
take up new ideas and to increase taxation. He is emphatically in favour of British
Government as against Arab rule in the ‘Iraq.
‘ABDUL RAZZAQ IBN ‘ABDUL LATlF.
Of ‘Amarah. Arrested by order of G.H.O., January, 1918.
‘ABDUL RAZZAQ AL HILLI, SAIYID.
Of Najaf. An Arab ‘alim. Before the war he had no name, but during the war, by
interfering in political matters and in the Jihad, he became prominent. He is probably
pro-Turkish.