ARCHIVE OF NAUM SHOUCAIR BEY AND RELATED MATERIALS, INCLUDING DLIMITATION MAPS, PHOTOGRAPHS, AUTOGRAPH MANUSCRIPTS, PRINTED BOOKS, BROCHURES, DOCUMENTS.. ETC. by AKABA-RAFAH DELIMITATION MISSION.. THE BRITISH OCCUPATION IN EGYPT AND THE OTTOMAN-BRITISH RELATIONS - 0

Autograph. Very Good. Soft cover. 1st Edition. Celeprated important archive contains: (A) Official three maps of the Aqaba - Rafah boundary by the Ottoman state and Britain made in 1902 white on bleu paper. These maps were prepared by a special committee from the Ottoman government. The biggest map due to the early years of the Aqaba question, the question which still under investigation as a critical boundary question between Egyptian, Jewish, English, and Turkish researchers. Together with Aqaba (Akabe - Akaba) mes'elesi (Aqaba question) by Mirliwa (general) Rushdi (Rustu Pasha), who was sent to Akaba by the Ottoman state as the commander of the Ottoman troops during the crisis. In 1906, while the construction of the Hejaz railway was in progress, the famous Akaba disbute occurred between Britain and the Ottomans over the question of the Ottoman - Egyptian boundary. It was known that Britain did not like the construction of the railway from the beginning, but since it was a domestic matter she could not object. However, when the Ottomans wanted to extend the railway branch to Akaba and Taba, tow small ports on the Sinai peninsula, Britain objected to it on the grounds that the place belonged to Egypt. (See Pan-Islamism by Azmi Ozcan p. 110 .. ). Aqaba, Hejaz, Railway, Britain, Boundaries, Palestine, Ma'aan, Taba, Sinai peninsula, Egypt. The maps are: (1) dated 1902 and titled 207 x 168 cm in Arabic and English from the point of view of Britain and Egypt. with manuscript Ottoman military notes. (2) 57 x 51 cm in Ottoman script with hand made linen. Topographic military places. (3) 54 x 44 cm Ottoman script showing Sinai peninsula, Vilayet of Hijaz, Wilayat suriyya, Sandjak al Qudus, Egyptian Hajj road, Aqaba and al Arish Boundaries from the viewpoint of the Ottoman Imperial commission and the Egyptian commission. (The smaller tow maps seem to be related to Aqaba question in 1906). (B) Collection of more than 250 photographs contains unpublished photos in the both books by Shoucair: The history of Sudan, and The history of Sinai and Arabs with a resume of the history of Egypt, Syria, Mesopotamia and Arabia, which published in 1916 in Cairo. Several Cabinet photos of important British and Egyptian officials, some signed or dedicated to Shoucair, during the British mandate like Clayton, Lee Stack, Sultan Hussein Kamil, Hussein Rushdi and others. (C) autograph big book about the history of Egypt and Syria (un recorded). (D) Many correspondence documents contains his correspondences with Owen regarding Owen's translation of Shoucair's book about Sinai and the Arabs. Together with Owen's English translation drafts by typewriter (seems to be un recorded) and the correspondence with the Sherif of Mecca (Sherif Ali) in 1915 about his ruling in the Wilaya of Hejaz. (E) Many other materials: books, brochures, documents regarding different important and specific political and military events in Sudan, Sinai,Egypt,and different questions in the late Ottoman dynasty and the British autority in Egypt. PLEASE CONTACT FOR SPECIFIC DETAILS. Naum Shoucair was born in Shoueifat in Lebanon 1863, then traveled to Egypt when he was under 20 to be an employee in the government. After short time he joined the intelligence office of the Egyptian military. He worked in the historical section of the ministry of war in, then he became the director of the section. He went to Sinai under the directory of the British bureau in the Egyptian army to make settlement with the Ottoman Army regarding the late movements in Sinai and Palestine in 1906 where he spent a time to collect the matter of the comprehensive subject. He took important role in the intelligence bureau of war under the British movements in the first world war..