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IOR/L/PS/12/2095
- Record Id:
- 040-000557115
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 037-000557080
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000000555.0x000279
- LARK:
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- IOR/L/PS/12/2095
- Title:
- Coll 6/29 'Hejaz-Nejd: Haramain Waqfs.'
- Scope & Content:
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This file relates to the establishment of what is referred to in the file as the Auqāf al Harameyn Claims Association, created for the purpose of claiming auqāf (or awqāf, plural of waqf) on behalf of the Harameyn (the two sanctuaries of Mecca and Medina, also transliterated as Haramayn, Haramein and Haramain in the file) and their people.
Much of the correspondence concerns enquiries made by the Hejazi (later Saudi Arabian) Government about information regarding the estates of deceased persons in British-ruled territories (including British India, Burma, and Palestine), parts of which estates are claimed to have been designated as Harameyn auqāf.
The file features the following principal correspondents: the British Agent and Consul, Jeddah (Acting Agent: Herbert George Jakins); His Majesty's Chargé d’Affaires to Jeddah (Cecil Gervase Hope Gill, succeeded by Albert Spencer Calvert); His Majesty's Minister at Jeddah (Sir Andrew Ryan); the High Commissioner, Palestine (Arthur Grenfell Wauchope); the Governor of Burma (Charles Alexander Innes); the Hejaz/Saudi Ministry of Foreign Affairs; the Saudi Minister for Foreign Affairs; officials of the India Office, the Foreign Office, the Government of Bombay, the Government of Burma, and the Government of India's Foreign and Political Department.
A large part of the correspondence is concerned with the details of a waqf created under the will of a deceased British Indian resident of Java named Ali bin Hussein Nanabhai as-Surati (there are various transliterations of his name in the correspondence), who left property in Rangoon, Burma. Whilst His Majesty's Minister at Jeddah and other British correspondents make efforts to assist in providing the Hejazi/Saudi Government with information regarding Nanabhai's estate, they also state that the British Government cannot intervene in the management of any auqāf created in British territories.
Also discussed are plans for an unofficial Saudi mission (proposed in 1935 by a recently formed Mecca-based society for the protection of Harameyn auqāf) to Egypt, Palestine, Syria, Iraq and India, to promote the claims of the Hejaz's Holy Places to the revenues of Harameyn auqāf.
Most of the material in the file dates from 1932 to 1935, with the exception of a few earlier items, which date from 1927.
The file includes a divider which gives a list of correspondence references contained in the file by year. This is placed at the back of the correspondence.
- Collection Area:
- India Office Records and Private Papers
- Project / Collection:
- India Office Records
Qatar Foundation Partnership Programme - Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-000538283
036-000554996
037-000557080
040-000557115 - Is part of:
- IOR/L/PS : Political and Secret Department Records
IOR/L/PS/12 : Departmental Papers: Political (External) Files and Collections
IOR/L/PS/12/2061-2170 : Political (External) Collection 6: Arabia
IOR/L/PS/12/2095 : Coll 6/29 'Hejaz-Nejd: Haramain Waqfs.' - Hierarchy:
- 032-000538283[0012]/036-000554996[0007]/037-000557080[0035]/040-000557115
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: IOR/L/PS
- Record Type (Level):
- File
- Extent:
- 1 file (223 folios)
- Digitised Content:
- https://www.qdl.qa/en/archive/81055/vdc_100000000555.0x000279
- Thumbnail:
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- Languages:
- English
- Scripts:
- Latin
- Start Date:
- 1927
- End Date:
- 1935
- Date Range:
- 4 Dec 1927-15 Nov 1935
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
-
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- Physical Characteristics:
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Foliation: the foliation sequence for this description commences at the inside front cover with 1, and terminates at the last folio with 224; these numbers are written in pencil, are circled, and are located in the top right corner of the recto side of each folio. An external leather cover wraps around the documents; the inside front cover has been foliated as f 1. A previous foliation sequence, which is present between ff 2-223 and is also circled, has been superseded and therefore crossed out.
- Former External References:
- Coll 6/29
- Arrangement:
- The papers are arranged in approximate chronological order from the rear to the front of the file.
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Public Record(s)