Mutaib bin Abdullah Al Rashid

Mutaib bin Abdullah Al Rashid
Emir of Jabal Shammar
Reign1868–1869
PredecessorTalal bin Abdullah Al Rashid
SuccessorBandar bin Talal Al Rashid
Died1869
Ha'il
IssueAbdulaziz bin Mutaib Al Rashid
Names
Mutaib bin Abdullah bin Ali
HouseRashidi dynasty
FatherAbdullah bin Ali Al Rashid

Mutaib bin Abdullah Al Rashid (Arabic: متعب بن عبد الله الرشيد; died January 1869) was the third ruler of the Emirate of Jabal Shammar whose reign was very brief between 1868 and 1869.[1]

Biography

[edit]

Mutaib was one of the sons of Abdullah bin Ali Al Rashid who established the Emirate of Jabal Shammar in 1836[2] and ruled it until 1848.[3] He had two brothers, Talal and Muhammad.[4]

Mutaib succeeded his older brother, Talal, in 1868.[3][4] In January 1869 he was shot and killed in the Barzan Palace by his nephews, Bandar bin Talal and Badr bin Talal.[3][5] One of the reasons for Mutaib's murder, cited by R. Bayly Winder, was the maltreatment of Bandar and his siblings by their uncle and emir Mutaib.[5] Following the killing of Mutaib, Bandar became the emir of Jabal Shammar[6] and the family members left Ha'il for Riyadh where they were given refuge by the Al Saud.[7]

One of Mutaib's sons, Abdulaziz, was adopted by his uncle, Muhammad, and ruled the Emirate between 1897 and 1906.[8]

References

[edit]
  1. ^ Frederick Fallowfield Anscombe (1994). The Ottoman Gulf and the Creation of Kuwayt, Sa'udi Arabia and Qatar, 1871-1914 (PhD thesis). Princeton University. p. 256. ProQuest 304117067.
  2. ^ Madawi Al Rasheed (1992). "Durable and Non-Durable Dynasties: The Rashidis and Sa'udis in Central Arabia". British Journal of Middle Eastern Studies. 19 (2): 144–158. doi:10.1080/13530199208705558. JSTOR 195697.
  3. ^ a b c Henry Rosenfeld (1965). "The social composition of the military in the process of state formation in the Arabian Desert". The Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland. 95 (2): 174–194. doi:10.2307/2844424. JSTOR 2844424.
  4. ^ a b Michael John Baran (1992). The Rashidi Amirate of Hayl: The Rise, Development and Decline of a Pre-Modern Arabian Principality, 1835–1921 (PhD thesis). University of Michigan. p. 265. ProQuest 303993600.
  5. ^ a b R. Bayly Winder (1965). Saudi Arabia in the Nineteenth Century. Palgrave Macmillan. p. 243. doi:10.1007/978-1-349-81723-8. ISBN 9780333055410.
  6. ^ Muhammad Suwaed (2015). Historical Dictionary of the Bedouins. Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers. p. 20. ISBN 978-1-4422-5451-0.
  7. ^ Eveline J. van der Steen (2009). "Tribal States in History: The Emirate of Ibn Rashid as a Case Study". Al Rafidan. 30: 120.
  8. ^ Jeff Eden (2019). "Did Ibn Saud's militants cause 400,000 casualties? Myths and evidence about the Wahhabi conquests, 1902–1925". British Journal of Middle Eastern Studies. 46 (4): 525. doi:10.1080/13530194.2018.1434612. S2CID 149088619.
[edit]
Mutaib bin Abdullah Al Rashid
Regnal titles
Preceded by Emir of the House of Rashid
1868–1869
Succeeded by