Abdulaziz bin Mutaib Al Rashid ( ar, عبد العزيز بن متعب الرشيد, ʿAbd al ʿAzīz bin Mitʿeb Āl Rašīd; 1870–12 April 1906), better known as ''Ibn Rashid'', was the
Emir of Jabal Shammar
The Emirate of Jabal Shammar ( ar, إِمَارَة جَبَل شَمَّر), also known as the Emirate of Haʾil () or the Rashidi Emirate (), was a state in the northern part of the Arabian Peninsula, including Najd, existing from the mid-n ...
from 1897 to 1906.
Biography
Abdulaziz bin Mutaib was born in 1870. He was the son of the third Rashidi emir,
Mutaib bin Abdullah
Mutaib bin Abdullah Al Saud ( ar, متعب بن عبد الله آل سعود, ''Mutaʿib bin ʿAbdullāh ʾĀl Suʿūd'', alternative spelling Miteb; born 26 March 1952) is a Saudi prince and military officer who served as Saudi Arabia's ministe ...
, and was adopted by his uncle
Muhammed
Muhammad ( ar, مُحَمَّد; 570 – 8 June 632 CE) was an Arab religious, social, and political leader and the founder of Islam. According to Islamic doctrine, he was a prophet divinely inspired to preach and confirm the monoth ...
, the fifth emir who made Abdulaziz his heir.
After Muhammed died of natural causes in 1897 Abdulaziz succeeded him unopposed. However, the Rashidi rule was insecure, as their
Ottoman allies were unpopular and weakening. In 1902,
Ibn Saud, the founder of
Saudi Arabia
Saudi Arabia, officially the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia (KSA), is a country in Western Asia. It covers the bulk of the Arabian Peninsula, and has a land area of about , making it the fifth-largest country in Asia, the second-largest in the A ...
, returned from Kuwait with a small force and retook Riyadh.
Ibn Rashid died in the battle of
Rawdat Muhanna
Battle of Rawdat Muhanna ( ar, معركة روضة مهنا or ar, معركة روضة ابن مهنا) was a major battle of the Saudi–Rashidi War, during the unification of Saudi Arabia, fought between Rashidi and Saudi rebels. It occurred ...
against Ibn Saud in 1906 after several other battles with Saudis.
References
Further reading
*Madawi Al Rasheed. (1991). ''Politics in an Arabian oasis. The Rashidi Tribal Dynasty.'' I.B. Tauris & Co Ltd, London & New York (based on a Ph.D. thesis presented to Cambridge University, 1988).
External links
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19th-century monarchs in the Middle East
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