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Place Medina, Arabian Peninsula, Asia

1. IOR/F/4/416/10290

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/F/4/416/10290
Title:
‘Application of the Pasha of Egypt for two armed Ships to be employed against the Wahabees’
Scope & Content:
The item consists of copies and extracts of correspondence cited in, or enclosed with, letters from the Government of Bombay. The item consists of correspondence regarding an application by the Pasha of Egypt [Muḥammad ʻAlī Pāshā] to procure or purchase two armed ships from the East India C...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
12 Feb 1810-29 Oct 1811
Extent:

1 item (10 folios)

2. IOR/L/PS/10/390/1

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/10/390/1
Title:
File 2182/1913 Pt 9 'Arabia Policy towards Bin Saud'
Scope & Content:
Part 9 primarily concerns the dispute between Bin Saud [‘Abd al-‘Azīz bin ‘Abd al-Raḥmān bin Fayṣal Āl Sa‘ūd] and King Hussein of Hejaz [Ḥusayn bin ‘Alī al-Hāshimī, King of Hejaz], and British policy towards both. The item includes the following: a note by the India Office's Political Department...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
27 Dec 1918-2 Jun 1919
Extent:

1 item (203 folios)

3. IOR/L/PS/10/658

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/10/658
Title:
File 756/1917 Pt 2-3 ‘ARAB BULLETIN Nos 66-114’
Scope & Content:
The volume consists of individual copies of the Arab Bulletin produced by the Arab Bureau at the Savoy Hotel, Cairo numbers 66-114. These publications contain wartime, and post-war intelligence obtained by British sources. They deal with economic, military, and political matters in Turkey, the M...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1917-1920
Extent:
1 volume (411 folios)

4. IOR/L/PS/10/1115

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/10/1115
Title:
File 1707/1924 ‘Arabia:- Jeddah Situation Reports. (1924-1930)’
Scope & Content:
The volume mostly contains printed copies of despatches from HM Agent and Consul, Jeddah, to the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, enclosing reports on the situation in the Hejaz (also spelled Hedjaz in the file) [now a region of Saudi Arabia], from January 1924 to December 1930, and relat...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
13 Mar 1924-18 Mar 1931
Extent:

1 volume (445 folios)

5. IOR/L/PS/10/1127/1

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/10/1127/1
Title:
File 3665/1924 Pt 7 ‘Arabia: - Nejd-Hedjaz Situation. Fall of Medina; Surrender of Jeddah. Abdication of King Ali; desecration of shrines by the Wahabis.’
Scope & Content:
Correspondence and other papers relating to events during the invasion of Hedjaz [Hejaz] by Wahabi [Wahhabi] forces under the Sultan of Najd, Ibn Saud [‘Abd al-‘Azīz bin ‘Abd al-Raḥmān bin Fayṣal Āl Sa‘ūd]. The papers cover: the fall of Medina; the surrender of Jeddah; the flight from Jeddah and...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
25 Aug 1925-2 Jan 1929
Extent:

1 item (347 folios)

6. IOR/L/PS/10/1155

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/10/1155
Title:
File 3666/1925 'ARABIA: PRINTED CORRESPONDENCE 1924-28'
Scope & Content:
This volume mainly relates to British policy in Arabia, and specifically concerns British relations with Ibn Saud [‘Abd al-‘Azīz bin ‘Abd al-Raḥmān bin Fayṣal Āl Sa‘ūd, also referred to in the correspondence as Bin Saud]. The papers cover the Hejaz-Nejd War of 1924-25 and political affairs in Ib...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English and French
Date Range:
27 Dec 1924-28 Oct 1929
Extent:

1 volume (388 folios)

7. 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)

8. IOR/L/PS/12/2148

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/12/2148
Title:
Coll 6/75 'Institutions in Arabia receiving financial support from H.E.H. the Nizam of Hyderabad.'
Scope & Content:
This file relates to institutions in the Hejaz (later Saudi Arabia) that have received or have been offered financial support from the Government of the Nizam of Hyderabad. The file features the following principal correspondents: the Resident at Hyderabad, the Foreign Secretary to the Governme...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
31 Aug 1931-5 Dec 1938
Extent:
1 file (58 folios)

9. IOR/R/15/1/565

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/1/565
Title:
File 61/11 II (D 42) Relations between Nejd and Hejaz
Scope & Content:
The volume consists of letters, telegrams, and memoranda relating to the situation in the Hejaz at the time, with Ali entrenched in Jeddah and Ibn Sa'ud's Ikhwan in Mecca. The majority of the correspondence is between Reader Bullard, the British Agent in Jeddah, the Political Residency in Bushir...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English and French
Date Range:
7 Nov 1924-10 Jul 1925
Extent:
1 volume (307 folios)

10. IOR/R/15/1/575

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/1/575
Title:
File 61/13 I (D 133) Wahabis and Pilgrimage to Hedjaz
Scope & Content:
The volume consists of letters, telegrams, memoranda, and reports relating to the Hajj pilgrimage to the Holy Cities of Mecca and Medina. The majority of the correspondence is between the British Agency (later British Legation) in Jeddah, the Foreign Office, Colonial Office, and Indian Office in...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
Arabic and English
Date Range:
21 May 1923-2 Mar 1937
Extent:
1 volume (213 folios)