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Archive Reference (shelfmark) IOR/L/PS Subject Caliphate

1. IOR/L/PS/10/518

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/10/518
Title:
File 4265/1914 Pt 1 ‘The War:- Moslem feeling. Expressions of loyalty.’
Scope & Content:
The volume contains papers relating to the attitude of Muslims, mainly Muslims in India, towards the participation of Great Britain [the United Kingdom] and Turkey [the Ottoman Empire] in the First World War. Most of the volume consists of papers sent to the Permanent Under Secretary of State ...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
31 Aug 1913-13 Jan 1915
Extent:

1 volume (561 folios)

2. IOR/L/PS/10/638

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/10/638
Title:
File 5235/1916 Pt 2 'Arabia: Shereef''s title.'
Scope & Content:
The file concerns various titles proposed for the Grand Shereef of Mecca [Grand Sharif of Mecca, Ḥusayn bin ‘Alī al-Hāshimī], following his recognition by the British and allied governments as King of the Hedjaz [Hejaz]. The papers include: the declaration by certain other rulers in the region ...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1 Jan - 25 Oct 1917
Extent:
1 volume (149 folios)

3. IOR/L/PS/12/230

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/12/230
Title:
PZ 2934/37 'The Caliphate (of Islam)'
Scope & Content:
The file contains mainly despatches received by the Foreign Office, reporting on the Egyptian proposal to establish a modern Islamic Caliphate under King Farouk. The main correspondents are Sir Miles Lampson, British Ambassador to Egypt, and Sir Reader William Bullard, Minister at the British Le...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English and French
Date Range:
10 May 1930-8 Mar 1939
Extent:
1 file (65 folios)

4. IOR/L/PS/18/B222

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/18/B222
Title:
Correspondence with the Grand Sherif of Mecca
Scope & Content:
This secret file is a collection of printed correspondence. It contains telegrams between Joshua Milne Crompton Cheetham, Acting High Commissioner at Cairo, and the Foreign Office, letters from and correspondence between Shaikh Abdalla Ibn Hosayn [Abd Allāh ibn al-Husayn] and his father, Hussein...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
24 Sep 1914-10 Mar 1916
Extent:

1 file (8 folios)

5. IOR/L/PS/18/B307

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/18/B307
Title:
The Supposed Spiritual Authority of the Caliph
Scope & Content:
This printed report consists primarily of a Note by Dr Thomas Walker Arnold concerning the spiritual authority of the Caliph (khalīfah) in relation to contemporary events. It is prefaced by extracts from a correspondence between the Foreign Office and Sir Reginald Wingate, dated 3 and 17 Decembe...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
28 Dec 1918
Extent:

1 file (4 folios)

6. IOR/L/PS/18/B372

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/18/B372
Title:
Letter from Sir Frederic Arthur Hirtzel, India Office, to the Under Secretary of State, Foreign Office, dated 13 Sep 1922
Scope & Content:
This secret printed memorandum is a copy of a letter from Sir Frederic Arthur Hirtzel, India Office, to the Under Secretary of State, Foreign Office, dated 13 Sep 1922, concerning the proposed amendment of the articles of the Treaty of Sévres which have been represented as interfering with the 's...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
Sep 1922
Extent:

1 file (5 folios)

7. IOR/L/PS/18/B373

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/18/B373
Title:
Notes by Sir Thomas Walker Arnold dated 1 May 1922, 1 July 1922 and August 1922
Scope & Content:
This confidential printed memorandum contains three notes, dated 1 May 1922, 1 July 1922 and August 1922, by orientalist Sir Thomas Walker Arnold concerning the 'spiritual power' of the Caliph in the context of the proposed amendment of the articles of the Treaty of Sévres. The first note examine...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
Sep 1922
Extent:

1 file (2 folios)