An Arabian Diary / Gilbert Falkingham Clayton; Robert O. Collins.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Falkingham Clayton, Gilbert, Author.

Contributor:

Collins, Robert O., Editor.

Language:

English

Physical Description:

1 online resource (402 p.)

Edition:

Reprint 2020

Place of Publication:

Berkeley, CA : University of California Press, [2020]

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

This personal diary of six months of diplomacy and travel in Arabia represents and impressive document to the quiet ability and resourcefulness of one of Great Britain's leading officials in the Middle East in the 1920's. The sudden expansion of the Arabian Sultanate of Najd under the leadership of 'Abd-al-'Aziz ibn Sa'ud after the First World War presented a clear danger to British interests in the Middle East and threatened the strategically important Arabian corridor to India. To resolve this project the British government selected Sir Gilbert Clayton as their envoy to negotiate a settlement of differences and to determine the frontier between Saudi Arabia and the British Mandates of Trans-Jordan and Iraq. Sir Gilbert Falkingham Clayton (1875-1929) was a quiet, able soldier, administrator, and diplomat who had come out to eh Middle East during the reconquest of the Sudan and remained as a political officer in theSudan service, secretary to the Governor-General of the Sudan, Sir Reginald Wingate, and finally the Sudan agent at Cairo. At the outbreak of the First World War, Clayton served as the director of Military Intelligence an forged that remarkable intelligence team which included among others Leonard Woolley, George Lloyd, and T.E. Lawrence. Experience and resourceful, Clayton was an obvious choice to travel to the tents of Iban Sa'ud where the autumn of 1925 he negotiated the Bahra and Hadda Agreements fixing the frontiers of Saudi Arabia with Trans-Jordan and Iraq and cementing friendship between Britain and Ibn Sa'ud. These results represent a brilliant triumph of personal diplomacy which protected British interests and inaugurated the lifelong friendship between Sir Gilbert and Ibn Sa'ud. The story of these negotiations and Sir Gilbert's subsequent mission to the Imam of Yemen as the first official representative of the British

government to visit San'a' are told in this valuable historical diary. This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press's mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1969.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Preface

Contents

Abbreviations

Introduction

Chapter 1: From London to Bahra

Chapter 2: At the Tents of Ibn Sa'ud

Chapter 3: From Bahra to Cairo

Chapter 4: From Cairo to Delhi

Chapter 5: Interlude at Delhi

Chapter 6: From Bombay to Hodeida

Chapter 7: From Hodeida to Sanaa

Chapter 8: Negotiations with the Imam

Chapter 9: From Sanaa to London

Epilogue

I The Bahra Agreement

II The Hadda Agreement

III Draft Treaty of August 1924 as finally submitted to the Imam by the Resident, Aden

IV Imam's Counter-draft of Article 3 of the Draft of August 1924

V First Counter-draft Treaty submitted by the Imam on 6 February 1926

VI Draft Presented by Clayton to the Imam on 10 February 1926

VII Second Counter-draft Treaty presented by the Imam on 14 February 1926

VIII Amended and Final Draft Presented to the Imam on 18 February 1926

IX Biographies

Bibliography

Index

Notes:

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 28. Sep 2020)

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ISBN:

9780520312098

0520312090

OCLC:

1198931095