Abdulaziz bin Mutaib Al Rashid (; 1870–12 April 1906), better known as ''Ibn Rashid'', was the
Emir of Jabal Shammar
The Emirate of Jabal Shammar (), 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-nineteenth century to 1921.J. A. Hammerton. ''P ...
from 1897 to 1906.
Biography
Abdulaziz bin Mutaib was born in 1870. He was the son of the third Rashidi emir,
Mutaib bin Abdullah
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, and was adopted by his uncle
Muhammed
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, 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
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, the founder of
Saudi Arabia
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, returned from Kuwait with a small force and retook Riyadh.
Ibn Rashid, who engaged in several battles with Ibn Saud's forces, died in 1906 in the battle of
Rawdat Muhanna against Ibn Saud.
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).
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Abdulaziz
Abdulaziz (; ; 8 February 18304 June 1876) was the sultan of the Ottoman Empire from 25 June 1861 to 30 May 1876, when he was overthrown in a government coup. He was a son of Sultan Mahmud II and succeeded his brother Abdulmejid I in 1861.
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