File 3665/1924 Pt 4 ‘Arabia:- Nejd-Hedjaz Situation. Attitude of Moslem world. Hedjaz deputation to India. Nejd deputation to India.’

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Correspondence relating to a proposal by the Ruler of Iraq, King Feisal [Fayṣal al-Awwal ibn al-Ḥusayn ibn ‘Alī al-Hāshimī], to organise a conference of rulers from the Islamic world, in order to settle the future administration of Islam’s holy cities. The proposal was in response to the invasion of Hejaz by Wahabi [Wahhabi] troops under the Sultan of Najd [‘Abd al-‘Azīz bin ‘Abd al-Raḥmān bin Fayṣal Āl Sa‘ūd]. The correspondence covers: the British Government’s disapproval of King Feisal’s plan; reports on Muslim opinion in Morocco over the deposition of King Hussein [Ḥusayn ibn ‘Alī al-Hāshimī]; the despatch of a Hejaz Government delegation to India; the proposed visit of a Wahabi (or Najd) delegation to India, the East Indies, and Egypt.

The item’s principal correspondents include: the High Commissioner of Iraq, Henry Robert Conway Dobbs; the Secretary of State for the Colonies, Leopold Charles Maurice Stennett Amery; the Acting British Consul at Jeddah, S R Jordan; the Foreign Office; the Foreign and Political Department of the Government of India.

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1 item (89 folios)

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File 3665/1924 Pt 2-4 ‘Hejaz-Nejd Situation’

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Ref: IOR/L/PS/10/1125

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English in Latin script

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Archival item

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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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Unrestricted

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IOR/L/PS/10/1125/3

Former external reference(s)

P 3665/1924 Pt 4

History of this record

Date(s)

1924-1926 (CE, Gregorian)

People & organisations

British Agent and Consul General, JeddahHigh Commissioner, IraqSecretary of State for the Colonies, United KingdomGovernment of India, Foreign and Political DepartmentKing of Iraq

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File 3665/1924 Pt 4 ‘Arabia:- Nejd-Hedjaz Situation. Attitude of Moslem world. Hedjaz deputation to India. Nejd deputation to India.’, British Library: India Office Records and Private Papers, IOR/L/PS/10/1125/3, in Qatar Digital Library <https://www.qdl.qa/archive/81055/vdc_100076863287.0x000002> [accessed 7 July 2026]

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