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File 756/1917 Pt 2-3 ‘ARAB BULLETIN Nos 66-114’ [353v] (715/834)
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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— 114 —
Yassin Bey Hassen, January, 1919,
An ex-Kaimmakam and formerly collector of Turkish taxes
at Khurma, stated :—
“ The Hejaz boundary was eight caravan days (250 kilo
metres) east of Khurma. Emirs of Khurma were always
appointed by the Emirs of Mecca, but were paid by the Ottoman
Government, who collected taxes there. The Sebei and Buqum
tribes have always been under the Yah (Governor) of the Hejaz.
The Qadi of Khurma was appointed by Mecca. There were a
certain number of Wahabis in Khurma who had their own
Qadi from Nejd but he was not official.”
Ali Abd el Kesim Kurdi, an old Mecca Resident, March 9, 1919.
14 I am of Persian extraction and came to Cairo in 1858,
joining the Egyptian Army. Later I served as a Captain in
the Turkish cavalry and after twelve years service was pensioned,
bince then I have lived in Mecca. Soon after my arrival in
the Hejaz I went to Khurma with a Turkish expedition which
v as sent by permission of the Emir of Mecca to deal with unrest
due to TV ahabi activities there. The He]az-Kejd boundary (to
which I personally went) was ten days by baggage camel (250 ki
lometres) east of Khurma and m those days it was generally
accepted that Khurma belonged to the Hejaz under the Emirs
of Mecca.”
It should be noted that the above three witnesses are
independent ones who were not put up by the King; nor did
they know their statements would be passed on to Colonel
Wilson. The boundary quoted by them takes the Hejaz frontier
to the eastern edges of the Sebei territory.
lungs Letter to Jeddah, March 29, 1919.
^ to make it quite clear to you that in only mentioning
Kuqah (Ateibah sub-tribe in Hejaz, west of the Buqum) in the
sketch-map I made for Wilson
Pasha
An Ottoman title used after the names of certain provincial governors, high-ranking officials and military commanders.
, showing part of the Arab
country, this does not mean that Khurma, Tarabah, Baniyah,
isha, and Dawasir do not belong to the capital (Mecca) ; for
up to this date their Emirs are being appointed bv us and their
taxes and tributes are being sent to us. It is I who appointed
Khalid Emir of Khurma and discharged Sherif Mohammed
ibn Sultan from Bisha which I added to Khalid.’
of fn In w h !- a ^° Ve letter the King no doubt refers to tlie F a r ts
of the TT adis Dawasir, Baniyah, and Bisha which Feisal informed
fwT alI ° tted t0 the King under 1910
tieaty with Ibn Sand.
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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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- Title
- File 756/1917 Pt 2-3 ‘ARAB BULLETIN Nos 66-114’
- Pages
- 195r, 234r, 353v
- Author
- al-Hāshimī, Ḥusayn bin ‘Alī
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- Title
- File 756/1917 Pt 2-3 ‘ARAB BULLETIN Nos 66-114’
- Pages
- 353v
- Author
- Yassin Bey Hassen
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- IOR/L/PS/10/658
- Title
- File 756/1917 Pt 2-3 ‘ARAB BULLETIN Nos 66-114’
- Pages
- 353v
- Author
- Ali Abd el Kesin Kurdi
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