‘Map showing the extent of Wahabi and of Muscat Power, 1865’
Scope & Content:
Distinctive Features: Issued as an Appendix C in Bushire Despatch to Bombay No. 11 of 14th February 1865 with Wahabee State authority outlined in red and Muscat State limits shown in blue line.
P G India Office Memorandum No B.437, P.Z.5620/1934, Historical Memorandum on the Relations of the Wahabi Amirs and Ibn Saud with Eastern Arabia and the British Government, 1800-1934
Scope & Content:
The memorandum traces the first development of the Wahabi [Wahhabi] sect, 1745-1800; the first expansion of the Wahabis in eastern Arabia to the fall of Baraimi and the Turkish occupation of Hasa, 1800-71; the period from the Turkish conquest of Hasa to the capture of Riyadh by Ibn Saud [‘Abd al-...
