Mutaib bin Abdullah Al Rashid explained

Reign:1868–1869
Succession:Emir of Jabal Shammar
Predecessor:Talal bin Abdullah Al Rashid
Full Name:Mutaib bin Abdullah bin Ali
Death Date:1869
Death Place:Ha'il
Father:Abdullah bin Ali Al Rashid
Issue:Abdulaziz bin Mutaib Al Rashid
House:Rashidi dynasty

Mutaib bin Abdullah Al Rashid (died January 1869) was the third ruler of the Emirate of Jabal Shammar whose reign was very brief between 1868 and 1869.[1]

Biography

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.

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]

Notes and References

  1. Frederick Fallowfield Anscombe. The Ottoman Gulf and the Creation of Kuwayt, Sa'udi Arabia and Qatar, 1871-1914. 256. PhD. . Princeton University. 1994.
  2. Madawi Al Rasheed. Durable and Non-Durable Dynasties: The Rashidis and Sa'udis in Central Arabia. British Journal of Middle Eastern Studies. 1992. 19. 2. 144–158. 10.1080/13530199208705558. 195697.
  3. Henry Rosenfeld. 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. 1965. 95. 2. 174–194. 10.2307/2844424. 2844424.
  4. Michael John Baran. The Rashidi Amirate of Hayl: The Rise, Development and Decline of a Pre-Modern Arabian Principality, 1835–1921. University of Michigan. 265. PhD. 1992. .
  5. Book: R. Bayly Winder. Saudi Arabia in the Nineteenth Century. 1965. Palgrave Macmillan. 10.1007/978-1-349-81723-8. 9780333055410. 243.
  6. Book: Muhammad Suwaed. Historical Dictionary of the Bedouins. 2015. Rowman & Littlefield Publishers. 978-1-4422-5451-0. 20. Lanham, MD.
  7. Eveline J. van der Steen. Tribal States in History: The Emirate of Ibn Rashid as a Case Study. Al Rafidan. 2009. 30. 120.
  8. Jeff Eden. Did Ibn Saud's militants cause 400,000 casualties? Myths and evidence about the Wahhabi conquests, 1902–1925. British Journal of Middle Eastern Studies. 2019. 46. 4. 525. 10.1080/13530194.2018.1434612. 149088619.