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Arabian rulers, and particularly Ibn Sa4ud, would not accept
Husayn in that role. They also had indicated correctly that Ibn
Sa‘ud had the capability successfully to resist the imposition of
Sharifian rule.

Notes

The F.O. and Cab. documents used in this article are at the Public Record
office. The L/P&S/10 and the R/15/5 documents are at the India Office
Records. The Wingate Papers arc at the School of Oriental Studies,
Durham University.
1. Since the opening of the British archives for the period, the Khurmah
question has been discussed in Briton C. Busch, Britain, India, and the
Arabs: 1914-1921, Berkeley, California, 1971, 257-66, 321-34, and in Gary
Troeller, The Birth of Sa'udi Arabia: Britain and the Rise of the House of
Sa'ud, London, 1976, 127-58. Neither writer, however, describes the
Khurmah crisis against the background of the suzerainty policy propoun­
ded by the British authorities in Egypt and the opposition to that policy by
the officials of the Government of India and of the India Office. Busch and
Troeller also do not provide an adequate account of the key role of Lord
Curzon in the formulation of British policy on this subject.
2. The Arab Bulletin, an intelligence summary published between 1916
and 1920 by the Arab Bureau in Cairo, contains valuable background
information on the town of Khurmah and its inhabitants. See especially
No. 81, 9 March 1918, 74-5; No. 91, 4 June 1918, 180; No. 104, 24
September 1918, 328-9; No. 113, 17 July 1919, 111-19; No. 114, 30 August
1919, 136-7. All of the issues of the Arab Bulletin used in this paper are
located in L/P&S/10/658. There also is useful information about
Khurmah in L/P&S/10/390, P. 122/19, H. St. John B. Philby, ‘Report on
the Operations of the Najd Mission9 (hereafter referred to as 'Najd
Mission'), 12 November 1918, 32-5, and in L/P&S/10/390, P. 5578/19,
Colonel C.E. Wilson *Some Notes on the Ownership of Khurma* (hereafter
referred to as ‘Notes on Khurma'), 8 August 1919.
3. The most thorough and extensive account of the Ikhwan movement is
in J.S. Habib, ‘ The Ikhwan Movement of Najd’ (unpubl. doctoral disser­
tation, University of Michigan, 1970). The subject also is discussed in
George Rentz, ‘Al-Ikhwan*, The Encyclopaedia of Islam, new cdn., Ill,
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Leiden, 1971, 1064-8.
4. Faysal conversation with Major T.E. Lawrence, 4 December 1917,
quoted in Arab Bulletin, No. 74, 24 December 1917, 512-13.
5. F.O. 822/13, KH/18/4, Hogarth to Wingate, 15 January 1918.
6. Husayn letter (addressee not given), 18 September 1918, quoted in
Arab Bulletin, No. 105, 8 October 1918, 340-1.
7. L/P&S/10/390, P. 4685/19, Faysal to Allenby, 1 July 1919.
8. Philby, 'Najd Mission\ 32-3; Wilson, ‘Notes on Khurma\ Ibn

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