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PZ 2934/37 'The Caliphate (of Islam)' [4r] (7/136)
The record is made up of 1 file (65 folios). It was created in 10 May 1930-8 Mar 1939. It was written in English and French. 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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roads, as Fuad Bey had invited him to do on his arrival.
The Egyptian Government offered a handsome present, and
it was for the Saudi Government to say whether they wished
to accept it. To have any suspicion of the motives behind
this offer was entirely unjustified. The Egyptian
Government, as a one-eyed person in the kingdom of the
blind, had offered and afforded assistance, often at
considerable cost to themselves, to several Moslem
countries which happened to be less advanced in material
development. To Afghanistan, for instance, Egypt had
offered to accept in Egyptian schools and colleges a
considerable number of Afghan students at the expense of
the Government of Egypt, and the help given to Iraq in
the matter of education was well known. As to the
suspicion that Egypt wished to set up a caliphate, it was
fantastic. To attempt such a project would defeat the
object of the Egyptian Government, which was to draw
Moslem countries and particularly neighbouring Arab
countries together by moral and cultural bonds. It had
been suggested that the royal marriage between the Iranian
Heir Apparent and an Egyptian princess had been arranged
with one eye on the Caliphate; but did anyone with any
knowledge of Islam believe that a 3hi*ah state would
accept such a caliphate ? Not a soul in Egypt was in
favour of such a scheme - no statesman, or politician, nor
the Shaikh al Maraghi; and when the young King showed
some inclination that way, the people were firmly opposed
to it. Egypt wanted nothing in return for such help as
she proposed to give in the matter of the Hejaz roads, and
in humanitarian and cultural projects in other countries,
except the satisfaction of having accomplished work of
public/
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The file contains mainly despatches received by the Foreign Office, reporting on the Egyptian proposal to establish a modern Islamic Caliphate under King Farouk. The main correspondents are Sir Miles Lampson, British Ambassador to Egypt, and Sir Reader William Bullard, Minister at the British Legation, Jedda. They comment on the reaction and support for the revival of the institution of the Caliphate among Muslim leaders Ibn Saud (King of Saudi Arabia) and the Aga Khan (Aga Khan III), as well as among Egyptian and Turkish government ministers. The file also contains Government of India correspondence from the Director of the Intelligence Bureau in the Home Department, concerning the religious propaganda activities of Egyptian ulema (Muslim scholars) sent abroad, and a report about the likely reaction of Indian Muslims to a revival of the Caliphate. There is a personal memorandum in French, from the former Turkish minister General Chérif Pasha An Ottoman title used after the names of certain provincial governors, high-ranking officials and military commanders. to the British Government in 1930, advocating a Caliphate in Muslim India under the rule of the exiled, former Ottoman Caliph Abdul Medjid II. There are news articles published in the Pratap , Lahore, The Egyptian Gazette , Cairo and the journal Great Britain and the East , London.
The file includes a divider, which gives a list of correspondence references contained in the file by year. This is placed at the back of the correspondence.
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- 1 file (65 folios)
- Arrangement
The papers are arranged in chronological order from the rear to the front of the file.
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Foliation: the foliation sequence (used for referencing) commences at the front cover with 1, and terminates at the inside back cover with 67; 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.
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- IOR/L/PS/12/230
- Title
- PZ 2934/37 'The Caliphate (of Islam)'
- Pages
- front, front-i, 2r:9v, 12r:15v, 17r:22v, 25r:62v, 67r:67v, back-i, back
- Author
- East India Company, the Board of Control, the India Office, or other British Government Department
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