"دليل الخليج. مجلد I. القسم التاريخي. الأجزاء Iأ و Iب. ج.ج. لوريمر ١٩١٥" [‎١‎٣‎٥‎٨] (١٧٨٢/١٥١٣)

1358
Reduction to
obedience of
the Shaikh
quarter of
Baghdad
City, 1847.
Relations!
with the
Ban! Lam
and difficul-
ties with the
Shammar,
Khaza'il, and
'Anizah,
1843-44.
'Obaid,
'Anizah,
'Afaj, and
Muptatik
4. That Negib Pasha should be ordered to repair the shrines at Kerbela in
administer his province with equity, to protect the Persian subjects there, and particularl?
the pilgrims from Persia, and, finally, to undertake nothing that can bring upon him
the displeasure of the Sultan ;
5. That Negib Pasha should be threatened with dismissal in case of anv future
misconduct; and
6. That all these points should be announced to the two Ambassadors in writing by
means of an Instruction addressed by Rifaat Pasha to the Dragoman of the Porte and
deposited in copy with the Ambassadors.
The removal of Najib Pasha from office, which had been demanded
by Persia, was not required.
We have dwelt at somewhat disproportionate length upon the Kar-
bala affair beeanse it illustrates so well tendencies and feelings which exist
even now, though much attenuate.!, in Turkish 'Iraq.
We may note, before turning f» tribal and miscellaneous questions
that in 1847 Najib Pasha extended the principle of the universal currency
o the Sultan's writ to the quarter, then turbulent, in Baghdad city which
takes its name from the tomb of Shaikh 'Abdul Qadir, Gilani, and even
to the shrine itself. It ha,I been proverbial, before this, that everv
seditious not m Baghdad had its origin in the Shaikh quarter, if not in
the very precincts of the Shrine. The transactions on which the Pjsha
founded his action seem to have been connected in some way with taxa,
i. n and they included a demonstration at the Pasha's country house by a
«d of 500 persons who presented him with an offensive memorial and
neatened to resist his measures. On the return from Kurdistan of a
military exped.tion, the despatch of which had evidently depleted the
ghdad garrison, guards were mounted nn the shrine, and two of the
pnucpal officials connected with it were arrested-one of them in the
sanctuary itself—and deported to Basrah.
there'ha I T,"' ^ intriBUeS am0 ^ the liani I ' 4 ' n . ^ich
een complaints, were suspended ; and a Turkish official with
a small m.htary escort was engaged in recovering taxes from the tribe
had a g ainst the Northern Shammar, another
had been despatched against the Khaza'il in their lagoons on the Euphra-
tes _ In ism an 1B , and tortress of the Khaza'il was taken and a Turkish
who hL'T J n,t;bUtthe,Anizah t0 the west of the Euphrates,
bevoml tb ' een S tllems elves refractory, were considered to'be
beyond the reach of a Turkish expedition.
pie of wbTb" 8 0Ut hlS ' Pollcy " f '"Vernal administration, the main prinei-
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Ottoman Government, Najib Pasha seems,