Muhammad bin Talal Al Rashid ( ar, محمد بن طلال الرشيد ''Muḥammad bin Ṭalāl Āl Rašīd''; c.1904 – 1954) was the twelfth and last

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-ni ...

in Ha'il. He ruled from early 1920 to 2 November 1921.

Reign

Muhammad began his rule in early 1921, after the reign of Emir Abdullah bin Mutaib ended, which signaled the end of the

Emirate 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-nin ...

Abdulaziz Al Saud Abdulaziz bin Abdul Rahman Al Saud ( ar, عبد العزيز بن عبد الرحمن آل سعود, ʿAbd al ʿAzīz bin ʿAbd ar Raḥman Āl Suʿūd; 15 January 1875Ibn Saud's birth year has been a source of debate. It is generally accepted ...

Emir of Nejd The Emirate of Nejd or Imamate of Nejd was the Second Saudi State, existing between 1824 and 1891 in Nejd, the regions of Riyadh and Ha'il of what is now Saudi Arabia. Saudi rule was restored to central and eastern Arabia after the Emirate of D ...

and future

King of Saudi Arabia The king of Saudi Arabia is the monarchial head of state and ruler of Saudi Arabia who holds absolute power. He is the head of the Saudi Arabian royal family, the House of Saud. The king is called the "Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques" (), a ...

, made it his goal to include the territory occupied by Jabal Shammar in his nation. Emir Muhammad, the people of Ha'il, and the

Shammar The tribe of Shammar ( ar, شَمَّر, Šammar) is a tribal Arab Qahtan confederation, descended from the Yemeni tribe of Tayy as they originated in Yemen before migrating into present day Saudi Arabia, It is the biggest branch of Tayy tribe. I ...

and

Bani Tamim Banū Tamīm ( ar, بَنُو تَمِيم) is an Arab tribe that originated in Najd in the Arabian Peninsula. It is mainly present in Saudi Arabia, Qatar, Kuwait, Iraq, Jordan, Algeria, and has a strong presence in Morocco, Palestine, Tunisia, ...

tribes fought several battles against the Al Saud forces, but Emir Abdulaziz reigned triumphant, and the Emirate of Ha'il (Jabal Shammar) joined the Saudi State. Ha'il fell to Abdulaziz on 2 November 1921. Afterwards, Muhammad bin Talal moved to Riyadh.

Personal life and death

One of Muhammad's wives was Noura bint Sibhan. Abdulaziz Al Saud forced Muhammad to divorce Noura so that he could marry her himself. However, Abdulaziz soon divorced Noura. Next, he married Muhammad's daughter Jawaher (born to some other wife, not Noura). Again, at Abdulaziz'z behest (or insistence), Muhammad's other daughter, Princess Watfa, was married to Musaid bin Abdulaziz Al Saud, a son of Abdulaziz. Thus, the sisters Jawaher and Watfa became mother-in-law and daughter-in-law to each other. The son born to Watfa and Musaid al-Saud, namely

Faisal bin Musaid Faisal bin Musaid Al Saud ( ar, فيصل بن مساعد آل سعود, ''Fayṣal bin Musāʿid ʾĀl Suʿūd''; 4 April 194418 June 1975) was the assassin and nephew of King Faisal of Saudi Arabia. Early life Faisal bin Musa'id was born in 1 ...

, assassinated Musaid's half-brother King Faisal on 25 March 1975. Muhammad bin Talāl's granddaughter is Madawi al-Rasheed. Muhammad bin Talāl died in Riyadh in 1954, one year after the death of Abdulaziz al-Saud.

References

{{Reflist 20th-century rulers in Asia 1900s births 1954 deaths House of Rashid People from Ha'il