Author
Saiyid Talib
Pasha
An Ottoman title used after the names of certain provincial governors
Publication Date
18 Mar 1911-1 Oct 1920 (CE, Gregorian)
Subject
1
Type
Document
Language
ara,eng
Digital
Yes
Manuscript
No
Pages Count
508
Library
Qatar Digital Library
Library Asset ID
IOR/R/15/5/27
Record ID
vdc_100000000831.0x0003b6
Library Location
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.
Date
18 Mar 1911-1 Oct 1920 (CE, Gregorian)
Notes
This file contains correspondence related to Ibn Sa'ud's [‘Abd al-‘Azīz bin ‘Abd al-Raḥmān bin Fayṣal Āl Sa‘ūd] relationship with the British Government and the Ottoman Empire (and to a lesser extent, Kuwait) including the impact of the First World War. In addition to internal correspondence between British officials on this topic, the file also contains a large amount of correspondence from Ibn Sa'ud himself, in both Arabic and English translation.
The principal correspondents in the file are Captain William Shakespear; Political Residents, Major Percy Zachariah Cox and Major Stuart George Knox;
Political Agent
A mid-ranking political representative (equivalent to a Consul) from the diplomatic corps of the Government of India or one of its subordinate provincial governments, in charge of a Political Agency.
in Bahrain, Major Arthur Prescott Trevor; and the Ruler of Kuwait, Shaikh Mubarak al-Sabah. The file also contains of copies of letters sent from various Ottoman officials to Shaikh Mubarak (folios 189-198) and a number of copies of letters sent by Saiyid Talib
Pasha
An Ottoman title used after the names of certain provincial governors, high-ranking officials and military commanders.
[Talib al-Naqib].
In addition to correspondence, the file contains several extracts from the diaries of the Political Agencies in Kuwait and Bahrain related to political developments concerning Ibn Sa'ud and the following documents:
a 'memorandum setting forth the position as regards Bin Saud for guidance at the time of contemplated meeting with him' by Major Percy Zachariah Cox, 1913 (folios 154-158);
a memorandum on meeting Ibn Sa'ud by Captain William Shakespear, December 1913 (folios 171-172);
an account of a trip to Riyadh in 1914 by Captain William Shakespear (folios 219-222);
a memorandum entitled 'A Contribution to the History of Tribal Fights in the Shamiyah Desert' (folios 426-429);
an article about Ibn Sa'ud authored by C Stanley G Mylrea and published in
The Near East
, 11 May 1917;
a 1917 copy of a treaty agreed between Ibn Sa'ud and the British Government and ratified 18 July 1916 (folios 457-459);
an account of a visit to Riyadh in the summer of 1917 by P W Harrison (folios 499-502).
Erişim Koşulları
Unrestricted
Düzenleme
The papers are arranged in approximate chronological order from the front to the rear of the file.
An index of topics discussed is contained at the rear of the file (on folio 509); the folios used in this index relate to an earlier incomplete foliation system that is in uncircled pencil 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.
Eski Harici Referans(lar)
First Series Files: X/4
