[1] According to a biography of Ydlibi by his daughter, he was born to a Syrian father and a Circassian mother who took him to Manchester, England, when he was aged six months.
[4] Only two Ydlibi births were in fact registered in England in the 19th century: Zenab (1863, in Altrincham, Cheshire), and Ali Abdoullah (1871, in Chorlton, Lancashire).
[5] In 1911, the brothers Azaat and Abdulgani Ydlibi, shippers of textile goods both born in Damascus, and reported to be Turkish, were recorded as living in Moss Side.
[1] After leaving the Force, he began trading gum in Kordofan, part of the newly acquired Anglo-Egyptian Sudan.
In 1905 he visited Ethiopia as a representative of the Kordofan Trading Company, and during this trip he found rubber trees in the south of the country.