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File 756/1917 Pt 2-3 ‘ARAB BULLETIN Nos 66-114’ [260r] (528/834)
The record is made up of 1 volume (411 folios). It was created in 1917-1920. It was written in English. 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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B23
and during their protectorate, which only ceased on the French
occupation, the sovereign at Constantinople was considered
as a Sultan and not as a Caliph. Phis is evident not only from
historians, but also from the inscriptions of public monuments,
which entirely omit the characteristic designations of the
Caliph.
2 This for the following reasons : (a) That a Caliph cannot
abdicate in favour of another person, but may only, and in
agreement with the Moslem community, designate his successor
as stated in Chapter I. (b) That, in any case, baia {see Chapter I)
in favour of the Caliphate of Selim I would have been necessary ;
it never took place, (c) That Selim I, being a Turk and not
of Koreish origin, could never have become a Caliph.
3 These inform us that Selim I, the conqueror of Egypt
and Syria, liked being called “ servant of the Holy Places ”,
a title until then used by the Mameluk Sultans of Egypt.
4 This occurred when Selim I conquered Egypt and Syria
and brought to a close the Mameluk, Circassian or Bahrite
dynasties reigning there. Mecca and Medina were under the
sovereignty of the Mameluks. When they fell, the Sherifs of
the two holy cities made haste to recognise the sovereignty of
the conqueror, and it is even recorded that the son of Sherif
Barakat, head of the Embassy sent to do homage to Selim,
presented him at Alexandria in the month of May or June,
1517, with the keys of the Kaaba on a silver plate. Naturally
this is only a recognition of sovereignty over the Holy Places,
and not a recognition of the Caliphate, as has recently been
stated in Europe by many after D’Ohsson.
6 History quotes many cases in which Mecca with or without
Medina, for shorter or longer periods, was not under the sover-
eignty of the Caliphs : among other instances during the last
years of the fourth Caliph Ali, who reigned in 656-661 a.d.,
owing to the activities of Othman’s party ; again from 681-692,
during the Caliphate of Abd el-Malik, through the activities of
the anti-Caliph Abd Allah Ibn el-Zubair; again in the tenth
century through the heretical Qarmatians; and again in the
thirteenth century in the course of the Zeidite Imams of Sanaa.
But nobody ever concluded from these facts that the rights
of the Caliph and the Caliphate had lapsed.
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- Content
The volume consists of individual copies of the Arab Bulletin produced by the Arab Bureau at the Savoy Hotel, Cairo numbers 66-114. These publications contain wartime, and post-war intelligence obtained by British sources. They deal with economic, military, and political matters in Turkey, the Middle East, Arabia, and elsewhere, which – in the opinion of British officials – affect the ‘Arab movement’; the bulletins cover a wide range of topics and key personalities.
The volume contains the following maps:
- A map of Central Arabia showing St John Philby's route from Uqair to Jidda 17 November to 31 December 1917: folio 103.
- Sketch map prepared from RNAS photographs and reconnaissance by HMS City of Oxford of Wadi A seasonal or intermittent watercourse, or the valley in which it flows. Mur February to March 1918 : folio 170.
- Sketch map of Hejaz (1919): folio 317.
- Tribal sketch map of the Hadhramaut ‘showing only tribes of fighting value’: folios 333v.
Towards the back of the volume is a small amount of correspondence respecting the distribution of Notes on the Middle East ; the Arab Bulletin was superseded by this publication. Copies of numbers 3-4 of this publication can also be found at the back of the volume.
Tables of content can be found at the front of each issue. A small amount of content is in French.
- Extent and format
- 1 volume (411 folios)
- Arrangement
The Arab Bulletins are arranged in numerical order from the front to the back of the file. The Notes on the Middle East follow on from the bulletins at the back of the file in reverse numerical order.
The subject 759 (Arab Bulletins) consists of two volumes. IOR/L/PS/10/657-658.
- Physical characteristics
Condition: the edges of some of the folios towards the back of the volume have suffered damage to their edges due to general wear and tear. The affected folios are 389-390, 407-409, and 412.
Foliation: the foliation sequence for this description commences at the first folio with 1, and terminates at the inside back cover with 413; these numbers are written in pencil, are circled, and are 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 front cover and the leading flyleaf have not been foliated. A previous foliation sequence, which is present between ff 357-363 and ff 374-412 and is also circled, has been superseded and therefore crossed out.
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- front, back, spine, edge, head, tail, front-i, i-r:i-v, 1r:34v, 36v:47v, 49v:53v, 56r:95v, 98r:132r, 133v:139v, 141r:149r, 150v:174v, 175v:184v, 186r:194v, 195v:196r, 197v, 199v:216v, 219r:233v, 234v:237v, 241r:245v, 248v:252v, 255v:258v, 260r:264v, 266r:275v, 279r:286v, 287v:313r, 316r:349v, 351r:352r, 354r, 355r:358r, 361r, 363r:365r, 366v:367v, 368v:369v, 370v:397v, 400r:412v, back-i
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