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Lawrence and the Arabs

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Aba el Lissan (place), 195, 202, 208, 227, 228, 290, 293, 321, 323, 324, 330, 347, 350, 358, 413

Abd el Aziz (Sheikh), 366

Abd el Kader (the Algerian), 260–74, 287, 363, 375, 377, 378, 382, 384

Abd el Kerim (of the Juheina), 117–18, 126–7, 142

Abdul Hamid (Sultan), 63–7, 88

Abdulla (Machine-gun officer), 302–3

Abdulla el Zaagi (Captain of body-guard), 297, 308, 335, 342, 357, 358, 366, 369

Abdulla, Emir, 66, 79, 91–3, 116, 131, 136, 149–55, 169, 173, 177, 261, 294, 324, 398, 399–402, 413

Abdulla the Robber, 295–7, 357, 358

Abu Sawana (place), 275, 276, 279, 280

Abu Tayi (Howeitat clan), 147, 320 (etc., see Auda)

Aden (place), 60

Adhub (Sheikh), 270, 271, 277, 284

Afuleh (place), 356, 359

Ageyl (class of), 109, 121, 133, 134, 138, 141, 145, 150, 163, 167, 201, 202, 225, 226, 262, 295, 296, 297, 302, 303, 305, 335

Ahmed (servant), 31

Aintab (place), 18

Akaba (place), 39, 143, 161–222, 226–9, 234, 249, 255, 257, 261, 288–90, 293, 294, 309, 314, 325–7, 335, 344, 347, 399, 401, 413, 415, 418

Aleppo, 27, 34, 36, 99, 129, 139, 183, 196, 223, 234, 257, 314, 351

Alexandretta, 36, 60, 72, 73, 116

Alexandria, 64

Ali (Emir), 60, 74, 78, 79, 92–4, 130, 294, 324

Ali ibn el Hussein (Sherif), 76, 97, 112, 259–88, 295, 355

Ali Riza Pasha (Governor of Damascus), 188, 266, 378, 385, 386, 399

Allenby, Lady, 246

Allenby, Field-Marshal Viscount, 24, 216–19, 223, 249, 254, 256, 258, 281, 290, 293, 313, 314, 320–7, 346, 348, 350, 358, 359, 362, 370, 373, 374, 387, 383, 411

Amman (place), 196, 300, 314, 316, 317, 321, 323, 324, 328, 344, 347, 348, 350, 359, 361, 373, 401, 407

Ammari (place), 270

Anatolia, 64, 85

Annad (Auda’s son), 194, 300

Apuleius, Marcus, 332

Arab Bureau, The, 90, 115, 219, 313

Arab Freedom Societies, 36, 69–74, 86, 106, 289, 374

Arfaja (place), 172, 176

Aristophanes, 160, 295

Armenians, 68, 77, 306

Atara (place), 316

Ateiba (tribe), 97, 109, 133, 152, 296, 309, 310

Athens, 84

Auda abu Tayi (Sheikh), 12, 147, 156–213, 220–2, 231, 233, 263, 299, 300, 318, 323, 348, 363–7, 371–2, 376–8, 399, 415

Australians, The, 72, 317, 359, 374, 380, 382–5

Austrians with Turks, 245, 364, 367

Ayesha, the Lady, 246

Aziz el Masri, 110, 117

Azrak (place), 190, 196–8, 224, 258, 259, 264, 273–80, 285–9, 341, 344, 347, 348, 358, 359, 371

Baalbek (place), 188, 189

Bagdad, 28, 36, 37, 108, 391, 393, 394, 396, 399

Baha (camel), 368, 369

Bair (place), 193, 194, 195, 201, 264, 265, 268, 288, 289, 290, 316, 335, 341, 347, 438–44

Baisan (place), 359

Baker, Sir Herbert, 420

Barrow, General, 369–74, 376

Basra, 187, 404

Batra (place), 250

Beersheba, 162, 256, 237, 264, 313, 335, 413

Bell, Miss Gertrude, 35, 171, 272

Bender (Emir Nuri’s nephew), 340

Beni Atiyeh (tribe), 146, 253, 265, 336

Beni Sakhr (tribe), 83, 190, 259, 265–85, 298, 320, 321, 341, 347, 373

Beyrout, 36, 183, 223, 385, 390, 391

Biasha (peasants), 261

Billi, The (tribe), 108, 117, 133, 135, 139, 142, 146, 147

Birejik (place), 19

Blenheim Palace, 53

Blunden, Edmund, 417

Blunts, The, 35, 171

Boanerges, see Brough Superior

Bolsheviki, 186

Borneo, 20

Boyle, Admiral, 113, 125, 128, 135, 136

Brough Superior (motor-bicycle), 14, 424, 430

Buchan, Colonel J., 85

Bulgaria, 73, 314, 364

Burckhardt (traveller), 35

Buxton, Colonel, 317, 324, 325, 335–44, 438–445

Cairo, 36, 82–90, 95, 112, 113, 143, 144, 215, 329, 332, 393, 406

Carchemish, 20–38, 81, 165, 250

Carson, Lord, 315

Cecil, Lord Robert, 403

Chauvel, General, 371–7, 380, 383–7

Churchill, Right Hon. Winston, 51, 54, 394–8, 409, 437

Clausewitz, 151

Clemenceau, 389, 391, 393

Coleridge, S. T., 332

Constantinople, 36, 37, 72, 351

Contzen, Herr, 29–32

Cranwell, 407, 408, 426–37

Crusaders, The, 17, 18, 20, 21, 161, 311, 391

Cox, Sir Percy, 394

Curzon, Viscount, 394, 401, 402, 403

Dahoum (photographer at Carchemish), 34

Damascus, 36, 73, 76, 102, 129, 136, 137, 144, 178, 183, 184, 187–9, 196, 223, 224, 257–9, 298, 314, 326, 340, 345, 359, 362, 371–87, 390–9, 411

Dardanelles, The, 72, 227, 258, 356

Davenport, Colonel, 113, 245, 259

Dawnay, Colonel Alan, 315, 318, 319, 324, 325, 345, 406, 443–5

Dead Sea, The, 288, 293, 298, 312, 314

Deraa (place), 196, 201, 257, 286, 308, 322, 323–5, 344–73, 348, 350–73, 386, 411, 431

Desolate, The (desert), 170

Dinamit (Emir), 12

Distinguished Flying Cross, 328

Distinguished Service Order, 291, 307

Dizad (place), 169

Dorchester, 407, 421

Druse (Mountains and inhabitants), 183, 184, 188, 196, 273, 360, 362, 376, 382, 398

Doughty, C. M., 35, 295

Egyptian gunners, 79, 104, 120, 132

El Arish (place), 227

El Jedha (camel), 236

Enver Pasha, 68, 75, 85, 149, 356

Erzeroum (place); 85

Euphrates, River, 18, 27, 28, 38, 60, 86

Ezraa (place), 363

Fahad (Sheikh), 270, 271, 276–79, 284, 320, 355

Faiz, The (clan), 288, 289, 401

Fakhri, Pasha, 77, 154

Falkenhayn, General, 227

Faroun (island), 39

Farraj and Daud, 167, 169, 180–2, 212, 253, 261, 262, 270, 280, 295, 317, 329

Feisal, Emir, 59, 66, 71–80, etc., to 404

Foch, Marshal, 151, 305, 404

Fontana, Mrs., 27

Fowle, Mr., 26, 28

French Colonel, The, 88, 114, 128, 143, 144, 251

Gadara (place), 235, 259, 271, 274

Galilee, 235, 278, 364, 374

Garland, Major, 116, 117, 128, 154

Gasim, of Maan, 173–5

Gasim abu Dumeik, 233–4, 250, 253

Gaza, 162, 183, 216, 256, 257, 264, 268, 412

Geneva Convention, The, 404

George V., H.M. King, 93, 392, 393

German Detachments, 354, 356, 364, 367, 368, 374, 379, 412

Ghazala (camel), 221, 225, 236, 246, 338

Ghazale (place), 363

Goslett, Captain R., 327

Grey, Sir Edward, 37

Gurkhas, 348, 358

Guweira (place), 195, 209, 213, 220–2, 227, 231, 293, 294, 335, 341, 347

Haifa (town), 18, 359

Hama (town), 188, 223

Hamoudi (headman), 33–5

Hamra (place), 112

Handley-Page (aeroplane), 359–60, 393

Harb, The (tribe), 92, 94–6, 116, 119, 121, 130–3

Hardinge, H.M.S., 135–40

Hardy, Mr. and Mrs. Thomas, 421, 423

Harith (clan), 97, 122, 232, 239

Hassan Shah, Jemadar, 260, 276

Hauran, The (district), 224, 237, 257, 286, 354, 359, 360, 364

Hedley, Colonel, 81

Herbert, Aubrey, Colonel, 87

Hermon, Mount, 277

Hesa (place), 323, 347

Hoffmann, Herr, 32–3

Hogarth, Dr. D. G., 18, 22, 23, 26, 28, 38, 81, 90, 313

Homs (town), 223

Hornby, Captain, 154, 168, 169, 320, 323, 348, 350

Howeimil (Sheikh), 240, 246, 247

Howeitat (tribe), see also ‘Abu Tayi’ and ‘Jazi,’ 146, 161, 224, 310, 341, 342, 364

Huber (traveller), 94

Hussein (Sherif), 66, 70–80, 91–3, 107, 129, 185, 220, 221, 344–7, 375, 388–401

Ibn Saud, Emir of Nejd, 71, 146, 172, 296, 397, 400

Indians, Barrow’s, 359, 370, 374

Irak, see Mesopotamia

Ismailia (place), 89, 216

Jaafar, Pasha, 145, 220, 226, 227, 298, 315, 318, 327, 328, 345, 350

Jaffa (port), 290, 321

Jane, Mr. Cecil, 16

Janissaries, The, 83

James, St., 235

Jauf (place), 176, 400

Jazi (clan), 194–95, 288

Jebel Rudhwa (mountain), 112

Jefer (place), 193, 201–3, 263, 289, 290, 299, 335, 338, 341, 440

Jemal, Pasha, 73–6, 158, 259, 287, 365, 375

Jerablus (place), 28

Jericho, 293, 312, 314, 324, 348

Jerusalem, 223, 290, 321, 351, 383, 403

Jiddah, 78, 88, 91–3, 102, 113, 125, 130, 220, 261, 324, 401

Jordan, The, 300, 351

Joyce, Colonel, 113, 291, 326, 327, 345–54, 361, 444

Juheina (tribe), 109, 112, 117, 118, 125–31, 133, 135, 138, 142, 153

Junor, Lieut., 352, 353, 358, 359

Jurf (place), 298, 329, 438, 439

Kaaba, The, 78

Kadesh Barnea, 39

Kemal, Pasha, 340

Kennington, Eric, 308, 408

Kerak (place), 293, 300, 306, 312, 328

Kethera (place), 209

Khartoum, 113

Kirkbride, Lieut., 384, 385

Kissir or Kissela (place), 335, 343, 438–9

Kiswe (place), 374

Kitchener, Earl, 36, 40, 81, 86

Kuneitra (place), 359

Kut, 73, 85–8

Kuweit, 60

Lawrence, Mr. (father), 12, 17

Lawrence, Mrs. (mother), 12, 16, 265, 331

Lebanon, 29, 188, 385, 390

Lenin, N., 52

‘Lewis’ Sergeant, 229–49

Lloyd George, Right Hon. D., 389, 390, 391, 396

Lloyd, Lord, 90, 262, 263

Lucian, 25

Maan (place), 39, 143, 147, 149, 152, 157, 177, 195, 201, 203, 204, 208, 210, 220, 221, 227, 231, 252, 254, 255, 293, 294, 310, 314–18, 320, 323, 344, 347, 401, 445

Mahmas (camel-boy), 308

Malory, Sir Thomas, 159, 160, 295

Marshall, Major, 442

Masturah (place), 95

Maulud, Pasha, 104, 119, 132, 136, 137, 164, 165, 255, 309, 310, 315, 318

Maxwell, General, 82

McMahon, Sir A. H. (High Commissioner of Egypt), 79, 87, 88, 185, 186, 389

Mecca, 61–80, 91–131, 151, 219, 220, 296, 324, 345, 346, 388, 394

Medina, 36, 61–80, 91–4, 105, 149–54, 162–3, 219, 254, 294, 296, 298, 299, 320, 324, 350

Mesopotamia, 60, 62, 69, 85–8, 97, 388–400, Appendix B

Mezerib (place), 352–4, 356, 365, 369, 370

Minifer (place), 197, 199, 281, 415, 419

Moahib (tribe), 146

Mohammed (peasant), 173

Mohammed el Dheilan (Sheikh), 165, 177, 191–3, 208, 220, 222, 263, 320, 348, 376

Mohammed Said (Algerian), 266, 375, 378

Moor, A, 150

Morris, W., 159, 437

Motalga (clan), 194, 300–04

Mozart, 437

Mudowwara (place), 228, 233, 237, 238, 240, 241, 243, 249, 263, 293, 294, 315, 318, 320, 324, 335, 341, 438–45

Nablus (place), 351, 359

Nakhl Nubarak (place), 118, 130, 304

Napoleon, 50

Nasir (Sherif), 139, 163–84, 188–213, 219–21, 259, 298, 299, 323, 337, 355, 356, 363, 364, 368–79, 415

Nazareth, 351, 354

Nebk (place), 182, 185, 190, 191, 201

Nefudh (district), 171

Nejd (province), 146, 397

Nesib (the Syrian), 163–87, 196, 362

Newcombe, Colonel, 39, 139, 144, 154, 168, 169, 196

New Zealanders, 359, 361

Niebuhr (traveller), 35

Nisib (place), 356, 358

Nuri Said (Arab regular officer), 298, 299, 318, 351, 352, 354, 356, 357, 362, 364, 365, 368, 369, 377–9

Nuri (the Emir of the Ruwalla), 146, 175–86, 195, 201, 338–41, 348, 360–4, 371, 372, 375, 377–9, 382

Oxford, 11–20, 44, 49, 81, 114, 137, 165, 319, 334, 393, 399

Oxford Book of English Verse, 160, 161, 295

Oxford Street, London, 292

Owen, Wilfred, 417

Palgrave, William Gifford, 35

Palmer, Pte., 423, 424

Peace Conference, The, 187, 388–94, 397, 404

Peake, Captain, 442

Petra (place), 39

Petrie, Sir Flinders, 23

Pichon, M„ 391

Pisani, Capitame, 250–3, 348, 350, 351, 353, 356, 362, 365

Poole, R. L., 16, 20

Proverbs, Book of, 409

Pugh, Sergeant, 426

Quarter-Master General, 322

Rabegh (port), 78, 91–116, 120, 129–31, 154, 224, 415

Rahail (of the bodyguard), 285, 288–90, 340

Rasim Bey (Gunner officer), 126, 132, 164, 304, 347

Rayak (place), 190

Read, Mr. Herbert, 226

Reading, 406

Remthe (place), 279, 368, 369

Revolt in the Desert, 153, 381, 408, 410, 413, 415

Rheims, 45

Richards, Mr. V. W., 15, 329

Riddell, Lord, 391

Rolls, Pte., 349

Ross, Major, 155

Royal Air Force (Lawrence’s service in), 25, 294, Chapters 2 and 31

Royal Tank Corps (Lawrence’s service in), 25, 294, Chapters 2 and 31

Rumm (place), 232–7, 249, 250, 262, 290, 335–7, 440, 443

Ruwalla (tribe), 86, 146, 182, 188, 350, 359, 364, 365, 368, 371, 374. See also Nuri, Emir

Saladin, 391

Salem (negro), 240, 242, 248, 249

Salem (Sheikh), 253

Salmond, Air-Marshal Sir G., 51, 328

Salonica, 73

Salt (place), 325

Samuel, Sir H., 157, 158

Sassoon, Siegfried, 417

Scott-Higgins, Captain, 442

Semites, The, 60

Semna (hill), 318

Senussi, The, 84, 146, 328

Serahin (tribe), 259, 271–83

Seven Pillars of Wisdom, 36, 160, 185, 189, 219, 226, 381, 393, 406–15, 423

Shaalan (tribe), 183

Shakir (Sherif), 152

Shammar (tribe), 146, 169, 176, 342

Sharraf (Sherif), 119, 164, 167, 169, 296

Shaw, G. B., 53

Shedia (place), 262

Sheikh Saad (place), 362, 363, 365

Shelley, 44

Sherarat (tribe), 147, 199, 200, 243, 265, 269

Shobek (place), 350

Shukri Pasha, 374–9

Sinai, 38, 81, 95, 213, 321

Sirhan, 147, 175–83, 196, 201, 270

Sleaford, 435

Smith’s Crisps, 433

Smyrna, 36

Somali camels, 342

Stamfordham, Lord, 392

Stirling, Colonel, 442

Stokes (Sergeant), 229–49

Storrs, Sir R., 90, 91

Sudan, 107, 113

Suez (town and canal), 59, 63, 83, 84, 114, 143–5, 162, 214, 215, 219, 325

Swift, Jonathan, 47

Sykes-Picot Treaty, 129, 185, 339, 390

Tafas (place), 286, 365–8, 371, 412

Tafileh (group of villages), 298–308, 311–14, 335, 347, 348, 350, 384, 416, 417

Taif (place), 91, 93, 116

Tallal (Sheikh), 257, 286–7, 353, 354, 356, 359, 361, 363, 364, 366, 367

Taranto (place), 291

Taurus Mountains, 18

Tebuk (place), 149

Tell Arar (place), 350, 352

Tell el Shehab (place), 271, 274–9, 355, 356

Themed (place), 213, 328

Thomas, Mr. Lowell, 11, 21, 65, 102, 188, 189, 326, 403

Thompson, Mr. Campbell, 22, 35

Tigris (river), 60, 85–8

Tremadoc (place), 12

Trenchard, Sir Hugh, 395

Tripoli (port), 385

Trotsky, 52

Turki (boy), 268, 270, 283, 284

Umtaiye (place), 348, 349, 350, 356, 357, 358, 359

Urfa (place), 18

Uxbridge, 26, 419, 420

Vickery, Major, 136–7, 141

Victoria Cross, The, 291

Von Moltke, 151

Wadi Safra, 102

Wahabi, The (sect), 400, 401

Wahid (of Carchemish), 29–31

War Correspondents, 383

Wejh (port), 117, 129–50, 154, 156, 162, 183, 188, 191, 208, 211, 215, 253, 260, 296, 385

Wemyss, Admiral Sir Rosslyn, 113, 216

Wilde, Jimmy, 81

Wilson, Colonel C. E., 130, 220, 224

Wilson, Sir Henry, 395

Wilson, Woodrow, 389

Wodheiha (camel), 311, 312

Wood, Captain, 260, 276–80

Woolley, Mr. C. Leonard, 26, 27, 38–40

World’s End, The, 194, 331

Yarmuk (river), 190, 258, 259, 263, 277, 290, 343, 351, 352, 375

Yasin (patriot), 189

Yemen, 61, 62, 136

Yenbo (port), 79, 112, 116, 117, 120, 125–35, 138, 154, 155, 215, 224, 294

Young, Major, 325, 328, 352, 354, 355

Ypres, 416

Yusuf (Sheikh), 261–2

Zaal (Sheikh), 171, 191–205, 220, 233–48, 260, 263, 268, 323, 364, 376, 415

Zeid, Emir, 66, 78, 79, 94, 116, 119, 121, 122, 125, 130, 133, 300–5, 309–13, 345–50, 358, 399

Zeki (the Syrian), 163–87

Zerakiye (place), 373

Ziza (place), 190

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