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File E/8 I Ibn Sa‘ud [‎262r] (548/606)

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The record is made up of 1 file (290 folios). It was created in 26 May 1913-18 Jul 1916. 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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Vol) 2. 2 '-i
conflict with British intentions in Irak, Tt Bin Sand"
set aoont his preparations for a campaign against
"Ibr j.u-ishid" f.or the doable purpose of keeping him
from any advance tv/ards and carrying out his
original plan to crash him. 'Ton Bashid" is now of
very small account,there are frequent dissensions
"between his tribes and he has not the power to con
trol them,while some of them have actually trans
ferred their allegiance to "Bin Saud". "Bin Saud has
collected at this canp some 3,000 to 4,000 of his
townsmen,has the whole of t e Untair and .Ajman Bedouin
tribes within call and has EstiM issued orders for
another 4,000 townsmen uo join his standards within
the next few daysL His preparations are on a scale
he has not attempted since I9II(?) when the Sharif of
Mecca at Turkish instigation made his incursion into
Washm. He will move within the week and hopes to find
and crush "Ibn Rashid" before the end of January,un
less the latter has moved westwarda,in which case new
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plans will have to be made.
5. Relations with British aoverruncn t. It is un-
necessary to recall what passed between Briuish offi
cials 8216."Bin Saud" up to the meeting he had had with
Lieut: Go Ion el Grey near 5 Kuwait at the end oi April
1914. "Bin Saud" assures me that the three months'
time which was arranged for at the meeting at ojair
in December 1913 having been sxceoded by a month and
having received frequent letters from Shaikh bir uuba-
rak-as-Subah urging him to come north to meet the
Turkish officials,holding out strong hope^ of a satis-
factory An East India Company trading post. solution with them,he proc.eeaea to m - WvIj ,
feeling sure to* (as he had kept A Political A^ent
Bahrain fully informed of his movements) that he would
be able to consult the Political Agent A mid-ranking political representative (equivalent to a Consul) from the diplomatic corps of the Government of India or one of its subordinate provincial governments, in charge of a Political Agency. ,,
before closing with the Turks. On reaching Subaihiyah
he was astonished to receive Jn^asAr
-a letter advising him to refuse to
Subarak-as -Sub all J

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The majority of the files contain correspondence, reports, letters and telegrams between the the British Political Agent A mid-ranking political representative (equivalent to a Consul) from the diplomatic corps of the Government of India or one of its subordinate provincial governments, in charge of a Political Agency. at Bahrain and the British Political Resident A senior ranking political representative (equivalent to a Consul General) from the diplomatic corps of the Government of India or one of its subordinate provincial governments, in charge of a Political Residency. in the Persian Gulf The historical term used to describe the body of water between the Arabian Peninsula and Iran. at Bushire, as well as with ‘Abd al-‘Azīz bin ‘Abd al-Raḥmān bin Fayṣal Āl Sa‘ūd (Ibn Sa‘ūd), various local rulers, Yūsuf bin Aḥmed Kanoo, the Government of India, the 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. in London and the British Consul in Basra.

This file contains papers regarding Ibn Sa‘ūd's increasing power following his conquest of al-Hasa and his relations with Britain, Turkey and local rulers, including Shaikh ‘Īsá bin ‘Alī Āl Khalīfah of Bahrain, and Shaikh ‘Abdullāh bin Jāsim Āl Thānī of Qatar (ff. 197-198, 200-202), as well as the commencement of the First World War and the death of Captain William Henry Irvine Shakespear.

Included within these papers are: requests for protection from Shaikh Hussain bin Nasir [Ḥusayn bin Nāsir] of Saihat [Sayhāt] and Haji Abdul Hussain bin Juma [Hājī ‘Abd al-Ḥusayn bin Juma‘ah] against Ibn Sa‘ūd (ff. 18-32), as well as notes by Yusuf bin Ahmed Kanoo [Yusūf bin Aḥmad Kānū] regarding his treatment of ‘Abd al-Ḥusayn bin Juma‘ah (ff. 164-168, 188-189); Ibn Sa‘ūd's relations with Ibn Rashīd; extracts from the Basrah newspaper Sada-ad-Dastur [Ṣadá al-Dustūr], dated 1 Shawwāl 1332 [23 August 1914] (ff. 198-199) and an extract from the Cairo newspaper al-Muqattam [al-Muqaṭṭam] dated 13 August 1914 (ff. 203-203A); Shakespear's visits to Ibn Saud (ff. 212, 215-217, 221-224, 260-271); a note by Kanoo regarding Sayid Mohamed Rashid Reda's [Muḥammad Rashīd Riḍā] correspondence with Ibn Sa‘ūd (f. 220); correspondence with Ibn Sa‘ūd regarding the First World War (ff. 226-227, 231-248); the Turkish garrison in Qatar (ff. 276-277); and a witness report by Khalid bin Bilal [Khālid bin Bilāl], Shakespear's cook, regarding the latter's death (ff. 286-287).

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1 file (290 folios)
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This file is arranged in roughly chronological order.

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Foliation: The file has two different foliation sequences. The primary sequence is circled, appears in the top right-hand corner of the recto The front of a sheet of paper or leaf, often abbreviated to 'r'. of the folio, and commences at 1 on the first page following the front cover and runs out at 290 on the final page preceding the back cover. The second sequence is uncircled, appears in the top right and left-hand corners of the recto The front of a sheet of paper or leaf, often abbreviated to 'r'. and verso The back of a sheet of paper or leaf, often abbreviated to 'v'. of the folio, and commences at 54 on the first page of text and runs out at 366.

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