So will it be with the English! The following text is a memorandum translated from Arabic describing the “wicked ways” of the English. It was issued by the Arab Committee of the Pan-Islamic Society and distributed secretly. It was written in a pocket book belonging to a member of a deputation from Emir Faisal in [...]
Innlegg merkte med ‘Hejaz’
As the bird flies so it falls!
Posta: Fredag, 12 september, 2008 under YmseMerkelappar:1920s, Arab Committee of the Pan-Islamic Society, Arabs, Christianity, Crusade, England, English, France, Hejaz, Ibn Saud, Iraq, Islam, Jews, Mesopotamia, Muslims, Nejd, Palestine, Sharif Hussein
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A Growing Power in Arabia
Posta: Onsdag, 16 april, 2008 under YmseMerkelappar:1920s, Arabia, Britain, CE Vickery, Great Britain, Hejaz, Ibn Saud, Ikhwan, Islam, King Husain and the Kingdom of Hejaz, King of the Hejaz, Quote, Randall Baker, Sharif Hussein
In the early 1920′s the power balance in Arabia changed. Sultan Abdul Aziz ibn Saud of Nejd was expanding his realm in all directions and defeated longstanding enemies. Ibn Saud was supported to a certain degree by Great Britain, but one of his main rivals, Hussein b. Ali, Sharif of Mecca and King of the [...]
A Consul’s View of King Hussein
Posta: Torsdag, 28 februar, 2008 under Books, YmseMerkelappar:Britain, Hejaz, Jedda, King Hussein, Mecca, Sharif, WWI
Yesterday I found this description of Hussein b. Ali, the King of the Hejaz and the Sharif of Mecca, by the British Consul in Jedda from December 1923: Imagine a cunning, lying, credulous, suspicious , obstinate, vain, conceited, ignorant, greedy, cruel Arab sheikh suddenly thrust into a position where he has to deal with all [...]
