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Project / Collection Qatar Foundation Partnership Programme Place Hejaz, Arabian Peninsula, Asia

21. IOR/L/PS/12/146

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/12/146
Title:
PZ 3727/35 'Establishment of a spinning and weaving industry in Medina with the help of Indian capital'
Scope & Content:
The file consists of correspondence concerning the poverty of Hejaz and the establishment of a spinning and weaving industry in Medina with the help of Indian capital. It also includes a translation of an advertisement to pilgrims announcing Medina-made cloth for sale in Mecca. The main corresp...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
Jan 1933-May 1935
Extent:
1 file (12 folios)

22. IOR/L/PS/12/1955

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/12/1955
Title:
Coll 5/10 ‘Air Route to India: Persia; Arabian Coast Route; Negotiations with Arab Sheikhs’
Scope & Content:
The volume contains correspondence, memoranda, and minutes related to a proposal to relocate the Persian Gulf Air Route (linking Europe and India) from Southern Persia to the Arabian Coast. The proposal is related to difficulties between the British and Persian governments over securing an exten...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
25 Jul 1931-25 Sep 1932
Extent:
1 volume (393 folios)

23. IOR/L/PS/12/2096

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/12/2096
Title:
Coll 6/30 'Revolt in Northern Hejaz: Hejaz-Nejd – Transjordan Frontier Situation. Hejaz Relations with Egypt and Transjordan.'
Scope & Content:
This volume concerns the British Government's response to the presence of anti-Ibn Saud [‘Abd al-‘Azīz bin ‘Abd al-Raḥmān bin Fayṣal Āl Sa‘ūd] rebels in northern part of the Hejaz during May-July 1932, reportedly led by Sheikh Hamid Ibn Rafadah [Shaikh Hamid Ibn Rifadah]. The volume mostly cons...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
26 May 1932-21 Jul 1932
Extent:
1 volume (469 folios)

24. IOR/L/PS/12/2101

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/12/2101
Title:
Coll 6/35 'Hejaz-Nejd. Ownership of property by foreigners.'
Scope & Content:
This file relates to the ownership of property in the Hejaz (later Saudi Arabia) by foreigners. The early correspondence in the file (1930-1931) relates to the estates of deceased British Indian citizens (and one Chinese national). The remainder of the file's correspondence is chiefly concerned ...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
23 May 1930-17 Jun 1935
Extent:
1 file (128 folios)

25. IOR/L/PS/12/2102

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/12/2102
Title:
Coll 6/36(1) 'Transjordan-Nejd Frontier Affairs.'
Scope & Content:
This volume, which largely consists of copies of Foreign Office and Colonial Office correspondence, concerns affairs on the Nejd-Transjordan frontier and relations between Hejaz-Nejd (later Saudi Arabia) and Transjordan generally. The beginning of the volume's correspondence follows on from IO...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English and French
Date Range:
9 Jul 1932-15 Nov 1932
Extent:
1 volume (462 folios)

26. IOR/L/PS/12/2201

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/12/2201
Title:
Coll 7/33 'Saudi Arabia: regulations concerning the importation and possession of arms'
Scope & Content:
The file concerns regulations regarding the prohibition of the import, sale, carrying and possession of arms in the Hejaz kingdom, and later the kingdom of Saudi Arabia. The regulations were all published in the Saudi newspaper Umm al Qura [Umm al-Qurá], and consist of the following: a high decr...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
24 Jul 1931-13 Aug 1936
Extent:
1 file (46 folios)

27. IOR/L/PS/18/B235

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/18/B235
Title:
‘The Arab Revolt. Views of an Indian Moslem [Muslim].’
Scope & Content:
A secret memorandum containing an extract of a letter, received by Edward Ernest Long, former editor of the Indian Daily Telegraph, and written by an unnamed Indian Muslim. A copy of another letter, written by Long, dated 7 July 1916, precedes the main letter, in which Long describes the views o...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
Jul 1916
Extent:

2 folios

28. IOR/L/PS/18/B298

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/18/B298
Title:
'Settlement of Turkey and Arabian Peninsula. Note by India Office on Foreign Office memorandum'.
Scope & Content:
The note was written by Sir Frederic Arthur Hirtzel for the India Office, 30 Nov 1918, and consists of remarks on three points drawn out from the Foreign Office memorandum: The Trucial System - disputing the assumptions made in the original memo that Great Britain effectively kept the peace over...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
30 Nov 1918
Extent:

2 folios

29. IOR/L/PS/20/E81

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/20/E81
Title:
'Handbook of Hejaz. Prepared by the Arab Bureau, Cairo.'
Scope & Content:
Second edition of the Handbook of Hejaz. The first edition was compiled by Lieutenant Commander David George Hogarth, Director of the Arab Bureau, in June 1916, however the development of events in Hejaz, along with improved knowledge of the area and a large number of errors in the first edition...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
26 Feb 1917
Extent:

1 volume (99 folios)

30. IOR/L/PS/20/FO20, f 166

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/20/FO20, f 166
Title:
DAMASCUS-MEKKA RAILWAY.
Scope & Content:
A printed map of the Hejaz Railway from Damascus to Mekka [Mecca]. The map is a copy of an original that was produced by Hajji Mukhtar Bey [Ḥājjī Mukhtār Beg], Technical Adviser of the Hejaz Railway, and compiled by Captain (Artillery) Eumer Zekki [‘Umar Zakī] and Lieutenant Hassan Muin [Ḥasan M...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1904
Extent:
1 map sheet