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File 3300/1916 Pt 3 'Aden News-Letters: 1919-20' [592r] (538/633)
The record is made up of 1 item (316 folios). It was created in 28 Feb 1919-16 Feb 1921. 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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(C) UPPER YEMEN.
13. Another rival claimant to the Imamate of Yemen
has sprung up in Muhammad Mohsin ihn el Kutavvakkil
whose claim has teen submitted here by tne Kibsi, vide
paragraph 14 of the last news report. The Ahl Hubalsh
and most of the Lower Yemenites support his claim, and
it is stated that he is being supported by the Idrisi
who has written letters to him and by the Hashid and
Bekil. Ibn el Mutawakkil is reported to have occupied
Hajja and Sada while RUBEITEN was entered by a force
under Saiyed el Muta' and Saleh bin Saleh Ali Tairi.
The Arhab clan have taken sides with the Imam. This news
requires corf irmation, however.
With regard to the claims of the ibn el
Mutawakkil the Kibsi Sayyed brought a number of
recommendatory letters from both Zeidi and Shafai chiefs.
In his verbal explanation, however, the Sayyed stated
that it was not intended that the Ibn el Mutawakkil
should actually become Imam but merely that he should be
placed in authority pending the election of a new
Imam. Ibn el Mutawakkil does not fulfil all the
conditions essential in an Imam as he is not sufficiently
learred, though he is sufficiently suited in all other
respects. The two best people for the actual Imamate
accordirg to El Kibsi are Sharif Muhammad bin
Abdullah el Dhayyani and Saiyed Muhanmad bin el Hadi
Sharafuddin alias Abu Neb, El Kibsi denied that the
movement was initiated by the Idrisi. The scheme, he
said, originated amongst the Zeidis who were discontented
with'Imam Yahya and the Idrisi was subsequently
approached on account of his friendship and influence
with the British Government wnich it was nopea would
assist in promoting the scheme. Under an arrangement
with Ibn El Mutawakkil the Idrisi is to extend his
control
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The file mainly consists of the following: copies of News Letters from the 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. , Aden, mostly addressed to the British High Commissioner, Cairo, which were forwarded to the Under Secretary of State for India by the Under Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs; and 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. Political Department Minute Paper covering sheets.
The News Letters are dated from 5 February 1919 to 23 December 1920. They report on the political situation in the Yemen, largely in relation to Imam Yahya [Yahya Muhammad Hamid al-Din, who took the regnal name al-Mutawakkil ala Allah] and the Idrisi [Muhammad al-Idrisi], and include news of Colonel Harold Fenton Jacob’s diplomatic mission to the Imam on behalf of the British. The News Letters report on news from Tihama, Upper Yemen and Lower Yemen, Asir, and the Aden Protectorate.
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