Ibn Rashīd

…out by their rivals, the Rashīdīs, and became penniless exiles in Kuwait. In 1901 Ibn Saud, then in his 20s, set out from Kuwait with 40 followers in a bold attempt to regain his family’s lands.

…his two eldest sons allowed Ibn Rashīd, ruler of Ḥāʾil in Jabal Shammar to the north, to take Riyadh. Ibn Rashīd ruled northern Arabia until he died in 1897. Meanwhile, the Saudis in 1871 had lost the fertile Al-Ḥasā to the Ottoman Turks, and the family ultimately took refuge in…

Muḥammad ibn ʿAbd Allāh al-Rashīd (reigned 1869–97) was undoubtedly the dominant figure in Arabian politics when Abdullah returned to Riyadh for his third spell of authority. At first the Rashīdīs refrained from any forward action, but they soon intervened in the chaotic affairs of the…

…Al-Mulaydah, (1891), decisive victory for Ibn Rashīd, the ruler of the Rashīdī kingdom at Ḥāʾil, near Jabal Shammar in Najd, northern Arabia, who defeated allies of ʿAbd al-Raḥmān, the head of the Wahhābī (fundamentalist Islamic) state in Najd. The battle marked the end of the second Wahhābī empire.