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'File 61/13 I (D 133) Wahabis and Pilgrimage to Hedjaz' [38r] (87/431)
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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this dqcumeht is the property of his britannic majesty's government.
EASTEEN (A rabia).
CONFIDENTIAL.
[E 1952/54/91]
Mr. Hoarje to Mr. A. Henderson.—[Received April 15.)
(No. 333.)
Sir, Cairo, April 3, 1930.
I HAVE the honour to report that difficulties have risen again this year in
connexion with the Egyptian Medical Mission which is annually sent to the Hejaz for
the pilgrimage.
2. According to Sheikh Hafez Wahba, who is now here, the mission is rather
more extensive than usual. He mentioned that there were eight doctors instead of
four as last year, that the mission wished to have establishments at Jedda, Mecca
and Medina, whereas formerly it used to establish itself onl3 T at Jedda and Mecca, and,
after the Mecca pilgrimage, move with such pilgrims as went to Medina. More
motor ambulances were with the mission, which also wished to fly the Egyptian flag.
Ibn Saud, irritated by Egypt's refusal to recognise him, objected to this enlargement
of the Egyptian Medical Mission.
3. According to Dr. Shahin
Pasha
An Ottoman title used after the names of certain provincial governors, high-ranking officials and military commanders.
, Under-Secretary of State for Public Health,
the various objections of the Hejaz Government were discussed with the Hejaz agent
here. It was agreed that the mission should fly the sanitary instead of the Egyptian
national flag. Permission was given to the whole mission to proceed, except to the
motor ambulances. Further negotiations on this point are continuing. Dr. Shahin
added that Nahas
Pasha
An Ottoman title used after the names of certain provincial governors, high-ranking officials and military commanders.
had sent a message just before his departure to England to
the Hejaz agent, suggesting that these difficulties were being raised owing to the
non-recognition of Ibn Saud by Egypt and assuring him that the Egyptian Govern
ment, on the return of the delegation from England, would tackle this larger question
in the most sympathetic spirit.
4. I suggested to Sheikh Hafez Wahba that Ibn Saud was ill-advised to
translate his resentment at his own non-recognition into the realm of pilgrimage
relief. Such action would help the adversaries of recognition, who would have little
difficulty in exploiting this obstruction in a sense unfavourable to Ibn Saud. Hafez
Wahba agreed, and said that he had already telegraphed to the Amir Faisal at Mecca,
urging that it was not worth while making difficulties about the Egyptian Medical
Mission^
5. The Sheikh expressed indignation at the tone of the press, inspired by the
Palace. The " Ittehad," " La Liberte " and the " Ahram " have, indeed, published
some extremely offensive articles about the difficulties being made by the Hejaz
Government over this mission.
I have, &c.
R. H. HOARE.
Acting High Commissioner.
X 1 April 15, 1930.
I ^ ^ - S ection 2.
No. 1.
84 p~2j
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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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- front, back, spine, edge, head, tail, front-i, 1ar:1cv, 3r:13v, 15r:201v, 203r:209v, back-i
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