Brief Description:
Documents concerning Muslim minority communities in Arab countries from 1843 to 1973.

Table of Contents:
Volume 1: 1. Muslim communities under Ottoman administration, 1843-1911; 2. General considerations in the former Ottoman territories: 'Decentralization' - the concept of the substitution of direct Turkish administration with limited Arab self-government - and the future of Palestine, 1913-1914; 3. Mesopotamia: disturbances at Kerbala and Nejef [Arab Bulletin Reports, 1916]; 4. 'Indian Moslems and the Hejaz' [Arab Bulletin Report, 1916]; 5. Considerations of the consequences of turning Turkey out of Europe, 1920: the views of the Aga Khan; 6. Sectarian questions in Syria: effect of French actions, 1925-1927; 7. Reviews of the Shiah movement in Iraq, 1927-1930 [a series of Special Service Office reports]. Volume 2: 1. The claims of the Baha'is in Iraq, 1927-1928; 2. Issues regarding the Committee of Moslems appointed to review the powers and constitution of the Supreme Moslem Council in Palestine, 1928; 3. The status of the Baha'i community in Palestine, and the progress of the Baha'is' case in Iraq, 1929; 4. The progress of the Baha'is' case in Iraq, 1930; 5. The progress of the Baha'is' case in Iraq, 1931; 6. Reactions to the findings of the Wailing Wall Commission, Jerusalem, June 1931; 7. The progress of the Baha'is' case in Iraq, 1932; 8. The claims of British Muslim subjects in Iraq against the Iraqi authorities and by the Iraqi authorities against British Muslim subjects, and the spread of anti-British propaganda to returning Indian workers, 1938; The claim of Das Raj Manu Harlal against the police in Samawah; The spread of anti-British propaganda to Indian workers; The claim against Sardar Ara Begum Muhamad Ali Khan al Nawab; The claim of Mr Shirazi against the Iraqi police; The repatriation of Mr Nizamuddin Ahmed's daughter to India; The whereabouts of Ghulam Rasul of the Anglo-Persian Oil Company; The petition of Kanij Fatima of New Delhi. Volume 3: 1. Zain-ul-Abidin Rahnama's scheme for a Shiah pro-democracy organisation, 1941; 2. The claims of the son of Shaikh Khazal to his confiscated properties in Iran, 1942; 3. The disputes and claims of Muslims and Yezidis in Northern Iraq, 1942-1944; 4. The Mohafazat of the Alawites, 1943: background information; 5. 'Minorities in the Arab World', 1943; 6. The arrest of Suleiman Murshid, Alawite leader, in Damascus, 1944; 7. The situation of Palestinian Arab refugees, displaced by the hostilities following the termination of the British Mandate, 1948-1949. Volume 4: 1. The situation of Palestinian Arab refugees: international relief efforts, 1950-1973; Arab-Israeli relations within Israel, 1957; 2. The status of Pakistanis and Indians in Spanish Morocco, 1951; 3. The visit of the Shiah Iranian prophet, Abul Qassim Khan, to Baghdad, 1952; 4. 'Moslem Lebanon Today', 1953; 'Crosses and Crescents: Confessionalism in Lebanon', 1973; 5. The situation of the Shiahs in Bahrain, 1954-1968: a series of papers regarding Sunni-Shiah relations; 6. The response to the arrest and trial of members of the Baha'i faith in Morocco, 1962-1963; 'The Baha'is': background brief, 1980; 7. The position of the Alawites and Druzes in Syria, 1966; 8. 'The Expatriate Arab and Iranian Communities in Kuwait', 1967.

Marc Notes:
These four volumes consist of original political dispatches, correspondence and reports, covering: tensions between settled and Bedouin tribes under Ottoman administration in Syria and Lebanon, the effects of French actions in post-Ottoman Syria in the 1920s, the disputes of the Yezidis and Muslims during the 1940s, and more.