ibn saud (15 Ergebnisse)

Hutchinson Benham, London 1982. 321 pages + plates with illustrations in b/w. Original softcover. Spine slightly creased. Otherwise a nice copy. Very good++. * Revised edition.

389 S. Original-Leinenband Rücken etwas gebräunt. Gewicht (Gramm): 508.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware.

Hardcover. Zustand: Near Fine. Original decorative orange and brown paper covered boards 13x21cm. Printed by H.S. Hermann-Burenstein, Berlin. 75, (1)pp German text. Covers near fine, rubbed at the extremities, interiors fine, tanned. A Nazi German era profile of Ibn Saud, praising him as one of the most impressive figures in history, the son of a refugee who went on to unite his people (Foreword). This was the 10th in a series of histories, highly unusual in that the previous volumes focused on German and European history (publisher's advert).

4to. 52 pp. With numerous black-and-white and colour photographic illustrations. Original printed wrappers. Stapled. Richly illustrated report of a state visit by King Saud to the United States in 1957. The remarkable images show the King with President Eisenhower and former president Truman, strolling aboard the S.S. Constitution or visiting UN headquarters in New York, as well as the Islamic Center in Washington, D.C. Further illustrations show Saudi armed forces as well as the Kaaba, while others seek to demonstrate how modern Saudi Arabia is benefitting from American influence and the oil industry. - Central bifolium loosened, otherwise very well preserved. - OCLC 734597.

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. 227 pp., Arabic text within borders, paper slightly browned, title gilt on red label, lower edge of last page slightly soiled, small dent to upper edge on lower cover, otherwise copy in very good condition. #35493.

11 photographs printed as black and white halftone screen cards. Ca. 161 x 115 mm or the reverse. An official diplomatic Saudi visit to Egypt in the late 1940s or early 1950s. Two images show HRH King Ibn Saud, the others show Egyptian officers. - A few nicks or lightly bumped edges, but on the whole well preserved.

A striking image recording a meeting between King Faisal of Iraq and Ibn Sa'ud of Saudi Arabia, perhaps taken in 1924 while the two men were conducting negotiations in Kuwait. The image was annotated in pen shortly after its production. King Faisal is marked "1", Ibn Sa'ud "2", and the verso is inscribed: "The Meeting of our Arab King Faisal and our neighbour Arab King Ibn Saud, 1-King Faisal, 2-King Ibn Saud". Although both men are smiling in this image, they were rivals, King Faisal being the son of King Hussein Ibn Ali of the Hijaz, whose territories would be overtaken by Ibn Sa'ud in 1925. In 1924, they met through British mediation in order to establish a border between Ibn Sa'ud's Kingdom of Nejd and Faisal's Iraq. Postcard (138 x 90 mm), manuscript to image (two numbers) and verso. Edges a little creased, a few minor surface abrasions or fingerprints. A very good copy.

An annotated draft of a formerly confidential dossier revealing that France struck a customs and trade agreement with Ibn Sa'ud in the mid-1920s to limit his influence in Syria, rather than to advance its imperial ambitions. The annotations, likely added during revision at the French High Commission in Beirut, seek to soften France's colonial posture. Written by Jean-Louis Aujol (1902-2002), the report appears intended for the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and serves to justify the policies of Henry de Jouvenel (1876-1935), France's High Commissioner in the Levant. Following Ibn Sa'ud's rapid conquest of the Hejaz in 1925 and the outbreak of the Great Syrian Revolt, French officials feared that he might project force into Syria, spread Wahhabism, or covertly aid anti-French rebels. Aujol foregrounds these anxieties, highlighting a suspected Druze-Wahhabi connection: "M. de Jouvenel savait que les troupes Wahabites avaient été sollicitées par les Druzes". He also notes Ibn Sa'ud's perceived influence on the Syrian-Palestinian Congress, which demanded independence from colonial rule. Securing a controlled frontier between Saudi Arabia and colonial Syria thus became a priority, but negotiations were hampered by Saudi denials of previously agreed borders with Transjordan, repeated breaches of customs arrangements, and the need to respect nomadic patterns of cross-border movement. Aujol also points to weak coordination among French officials, with the delegate to Jabal Druz unaware of planned customs changes. The report's thesis is that de Jouvenel nonetheless achieved a diplomatic success: he settled the border, renegotiated customs, and convinced Ibn Sa'ud to refrain from condemning France at the Mecca congress. The manuscript corrections strengthen this narrative by recasting France as a liberal power executing an international mandate rather than an imperial project. Aujol's original claim that Ibn Sa'ud saw France as "le champion de la civilisation occidentale" is replaced with a more cautious assertion that "il n'y ait pas été en Syrie d'imperialisme français". De Jouvenel, a former editor-in-chief of Le matin who entered diplomacy during the First World War, served briefly as High Commissioner (1925-26), overseeing the Lebanese Constitution and the reintegration of the Druze state. Aujol, a trained lawyer and de Jouvenel's secretary, later became a prominent advocate with high-profile clients, and an adviser to King Faisal of Saudi Arabia. He published several works, including a study of Lebanon, Ce cèdre qu'on abat. Christine Manigand, "Henry de Jouvenel, Haut-Commissaire de La République Française en Syrie et au Liban (1925-1926)", Guerres Mondiales et Conflits Contemporains, no. 192, 1998; Jean-Louis Aujol, Un Avocat Dans Le Siècle: De Poincaré À Mitterrand; Pris Sur Le Vif: Portraits Contemporains, 1989; Philip Shukry Khoury, Syria and the French Mandate: The Politics of Arab Nationalism, 1920-1945, 2014. 33 typewritten leaves (1 top copy, watermarked P. F. B. Moirans Isère; 32 carbon copies on onion skin paper), measuring 270 x 210 mm and typed on one side. Loose inside a red folder, all within a contemporary manila folder. Some soiling to folders, inner folder with some short closed tears and split at fold. A well-preserved document.

An in-house Aramco memo documenting a radio broadcast to the Dhahran and Mecca areas by Ibn Saud's newly enthroned successor. Facing challenges to its exclusive oil concession, Aramco arranged much of King Sa'ud's itinerary, including a lavish series of banquets and visits in the company of its top officials. King Sa'ud arrived in Dhahran on Wednesday 6 January 1954 in the company of his brother, the Minister of Defence and Aviation, and over 50 princes. At several banquets, he dined alongside Robert Keyes and Fred Davies (respectively Aramco's President and Chairman of the Board) in the company of the American consul and other prominent government leaders. A special Aramco dinner held on Friday 8 featured, as a backdrop, the largest Saudi flag ever produced in the region - an achievement that met with the king's wholehearted approval. Earlier the same day, Sa'ud joined 7,500 other spectators to watch a football match between the Dhahran All-Stars and the Saudi Government Railroad All-stars, the Dhahran team triumphing 3-2. The visit formally concluded on Thursday 14 March, and the king departed to begin an extended hunting tour. In his broadcast, Sa'ud articulates his vision for the future of Saudi Arabia. "We were deeply impressed and reassured by your determination to progress and advance, a matter which has our full encouragement. Through your cooperation, our country will attain a foremost position among nations, and we will thus be able to fulfill the noble aims set by our late father, treading in his footsteps and following his example". Sa'ud pledges to uphold the law, govern wisely, and combat all dissenting and disruptive influences. A pencilled note by an anonymous Aramco official at the end of the memo notes that the king increased average wages by 15 percent in the wake of his broadcast. For Aramco, the stakes were high. Shortly after the visit, Saudi Arabia granted Aristotle Onassis and his Saudi Arabian Maritime Tankers Ltd (Satco) a thirty-year monopoly on the export of Saudi oil, pledging to compel Aramco to use Satco tankers. While the matter was eventually settled in Aramco's favour by a government-backed tribunal, it exposed the fragility of Aramco's position in an emboldened Saudi Arabia. The memo is published in the United States Records on Saudi Affairs, 1945-1959 as a confidential dispatch from the American consul. 2 leaves mimeographed typescript (275 x 215 mm), text one side only, wire-stitched at top corner. Light scuffing, couple of small stains, sometime horizontally folded: in very good condition.

A photograph showing a critical and secretive meeting between Ibn Sa'ud (centre) and the British representative Sir Gilbert Clayton (left), one of a pivotal series of negotiations which led to the Treaty of Jeddah in May 1927. Copies of this picture are rare in commerce. This image is from the archive of The Times, the copyright stamp of which is on the verso, alongside a second stamp reading "Referred - E. Dept. April 30th 1928 N.E.A." A typewritten draft of a bulletin has also been tipped to the verso, reading: "Discussions with Ibn Saud. Sir Gilbert Clayton left London on April 19. for Jeddah, where he will meet the king of the Hejaz and Nejd, and will discuss with him, on behalf of His Majesty's Government, various outstanding questions affecting the relations of the Kingdom of the Hejaz and Nejd with the neighbouring states of Iraq and Transjordan. He will have with him Mr. K. Cornwallis, Adviser to the Ministry of the Interior of the Iraq Government, Mr. G. Antonius, of the Palestine Service, and Flight Lt. G. M. Moore, of the Royal Air Force. Our picture shows Sir Gilbert Clayton (left) with Ibn Saud (centre) in Hedjaz". In 1924-5, during the conflict between the Hashemites and Ibn Sa'ud's army, Ibn Sa'ud led his forces into Transjordan, making the British fear for the stability of the region. The British government dispatched Clayton to hold talks with Ibn Sa'ud after the Saudi conquest of the Hijaz, to determine the northern borders of the new nation of Saudi Arabia. Clayton was accompanied by his translator George Habib Antonius, the famous Lebanese historian and thinker, who stands on the right in the image. The two men arrived in Jeddah while Ibn Sa'ud's forces were laying siege to it. Clayton and Antonius continued their negotiations with Ibn Sa'ud between 1925 and 1928. Discussions over the borders were protracted and complex, with the towns of Ma an and Kaf the object of particularly intense debate, due to British fears that the Saudis could extend their influence north to Syria if they controlled these regions. It was eventually resolved that Ma an would be in Transjordan and that Kaf would be in Saudi Arabia. During the First World War, Clayton was chief of the Arab Bureau in Cairo, working with T. E. Lawrence to foment the Arab Revolt. Lawrence praises Clayton in Seven Pillars of Wisdom, describing his influence as "creeping silently and insistently through everything". Silver gelatin print (215 x 165 mm), mounted, framed, and glazed with conservation acrylic glazing (framed size 270 x 315 mm). Light staining and water damage to photograph, editorial markings in black ink to designate margins of image, bodies and faces of figures highlighted in black ink to increase contrast, right corners clipped, short closed tear to upper left corner.

Three rare press photographs dating from 1969 to 1971, which show HRH King Faisal (1906-1975) visiting the United Kingdom, Taiwan, and Cairo and give a composite picture of Saudi foreign policy under his rule: receptive to the west, avowedly anti-communist, and pan-Islamic above all. King Faisal's belief in the importance of Palestinian statehood saw Saudi Arabia lead OPEC's 1973 oil embargo against numerous western countries which supported Israel. Despite this, he sought to maintain positive relations with the West, to his country's benefit. The first image in this set was taken during his state visit to the United Kingdom in May 1967. The image depicts the king smiling and waving as he sits beside Queen Elizabeth and opposite Prince Philip in a horse-drawn carriage. The king famously considered communism to be completely incompatible with Islam and deemed the Soviet Union and the People's Republic of China to be major threats to Saudi Arabia. In 1971, he made a landmark visit to anti-communist Taiwan, where he met Chiang Kai-Shek and spoke of Islam as a cultural bridge which had historically united the Arabs and the Chinese. In the second image in the set, he is seen watching military exercises from a motorcade in northern Taiwan. The figure to his right is the Taiwanese Vice President, Yen Chia-Ken. The final image depicts King Faisal sitting next to Colonel Mu'ammar Gaddafi of Libya, President 'Abd al-Rahman al-Iryani of North Yemen, and President Gamal Abdel Nasser of Egypt, at the extraordinary meeting of the Arab League in Cairo in 1970. The summit was convened because of the Jordanian Civil War and the violence which erupted between the PLO and the army of King Hussein. Nasser would die only a few hours after this photograph was taken, and the image captures an extraordinary moment of unity. 3 silver gelatin prints (each 180 x 150 mm to 200 x 130 mm), later laid down on decorative card mounts (each 310 x 250 mm). Photographs with minor surface abrasions; mounts with slight water damage, some toning and foxing, spots of worming, edges brittle and chipped. In good condition.

A series of six rare press photographs dating from January through September 1957, showing King Sa'ud (1902-1969) visiting the United States, Italy, Spain, Syria, and Jordan. Collectively, these images document a turning point in Saudi Arabia's foreign relations and give a forceful impression of King Sa'ud's charisma. After the death of HRH King Ibn Sa'ud in 1953, King Sa'ud ascended the throne and began to implement changes in Saudi Arabia's foreign policy. While interested in maintaining good relations with the United States, he advocated nonalignment and was primarily concerned with fostering pan-Arab unity. President Eisenhower, keen for Saudi Arabia to remain a bulwark against communism in the Middle East, invited him on a state visit to the US in 1957. The first image in this group depicts King Sa'ud in Naples, Italy, on his way to America on 23rd January 1957. He strides commandingly through a doorway, flanked by two bodyguards toting sub-machine guns. The next image depicts the monarch shaking hands with Secretary General Dag Hammerskjöld (1905-61) at the UN headquarters in New York, on the day of his address to the General Assembly. Taken several days later, on February 5, another photograph depicts the king cradling his son, Prince Mashhur Ibn Sa'ud, whom he had brought on the journey to seek medical treatment for what was subsequently diagnosed as cerebral palsy. Having sailed back across the Atlantic, King Sa'ud visited Spain, at this time under the rule of General Franco. Here, the monarch is shown handling a gun in the company of two Spanish officials during a visit to the Carabanchul Barracks. The final two images, taken in June and September 1957, demonstrate the extent to which King Sa'ud built connections with other Arab nations in his quest for political unity. In one, he is depicted with King Hussein of Jordan during a visit to Amman, and in the other he shakes hands with President Shukry al-Quwatly of Syria. Some contemporary commentators saw these diplomatic visits as attempts to lessen the influence of Gamal Abdel Nasser's Egypt throughout the Middle East. 6 silver gelatin prints (each 230 x 180 mm), all but one with a contemporary publisher's description of the photograph taped to the verso. Slight soiling and creasing to some photographs. In excellent condition.

Intimate portrait of King Ibn Saud and Sheikh Salman bin Hamad Al Khalifa of Bahrain, captured possibly at the Dammam Conference of 1952, at which Britain and Saudi Arabia discussed boundaries between the Kingdom and the British-protected states of the Gulf. Their host, Emir Abdullah bin Jiwuli Al Saud, was Saudi governor of the Eastern Province (1938-67), where Dammam is located. At Dammam, Ibn Saud successfully extended his boundaries beyond the "blue line" established by the Anglo-Ottoman Convention of 1913, which had defined the limits of Ottoman jurisdiction in the area of the Persian Gulf with respect to Kuwait, Qatar, Bahrain, and the Shatt al-Arab. The Saudi monarch is pictured here with Salman bin Hamad Al Khalifa (1894-1961, Hakim of Bahrain 1942-61), whose enlightened rule ensured important reforms in health, sanitation, and education. Their host, Emir Abdullah bin Jiwuli Al Saud was a paternal cousin of Ibn Saud and a "powerful and long-time ruler of the Eastern Province" (Chatty, p. 376). This image was captured by Peter Holdstock and reproduced as the opening image in his book Local Color. We have been unable to find much background on Holdstock, beyond that he was a Bapco employee in the Awali in the 1940s and was a pretty good golfer, winner of the company's Kingsbury Cup in both 1940 and 1941 and the Russell Cup for 1941. His book, Local Color, which features some fine portraits and views of the region, was self-published in Bahrain in around 1954. Dawn Chatty, ed., Nomadic Societies in the Middle East and North Africa: Entering the 21st Century, 2006. Silver print photograph (98 x 127 mm); verso wet stamped with inventory number "629". Framed and glazed, overall 205 x 228 mm. Minor creasing at top left otherwise in excellent condition.

13 x 18 cm. Original nitrate silver print. HRH King Abdulaziz ibn Sa'ud standing before his tent with Sir Gilbert Clayton and George Habib Antonius during one of their pivotal meetings at which they negotiated the Treaty of Jeddah, in which the UK recognized the Ibn Saud's sovereignty over Hejaz and Nejd. Clayton had been Chief of Arab Bureau over T. E. Lawrence when he helped facilitate the beginning of the Arab Revolt. Lawrence praises Clayton in his "Seven Pillars of Wisdom" (1935): "Clayton made the perfect leader for such a band as we were". - At the centre of the photograph is King Abdulaziz, the first monarch of Saudi Arabia and father of the Sa'ud dynasty. He began his conquests by retaking his family's ancestral homeland of Riyadh in 1902. In 1925 he took Hejaz and in 1932 would unite all his dominions into the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. In 1925 and 1927 Clayton made important voyages to Jeddah to meet with King Abdulaziz over the future of the Arabian Peninsula. These conferences culminated in the pivotal 1927 Treaty of Jeddah, in which the United Kingdom recognized the King's sovereignty over Hejaz and Nejd, and in return Abdulaziz would hold back his forces from attacking the neighboring British protectorates. As recently revealed by the release of British Intelligence documents, the two continued to have secret meetings in 1928 to settle the borders of present-day Iraq with the emerging Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. The records of these meetings, mostly typescripts and carbon copies, sold at Sotheby's in 2010 for more than $500,000. Photographic records of these critical and closely guarded negotiations are extremely rare; the only other one known is in the personal collection of the Antonius family. Even the Sotheby's archive included only photographs and slides of Clayton's funeral, and none of his meetings with Ibn Saud. - With French press caption printed on the reverse ("photo Meurisse - mention obligatoire").