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An Arabian Diary (Paperback)
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An Arabian Diary (Paperback)
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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.
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