Abdullah bin Rashid

Abdullah bin Rashid
Abdullah bin Rashid
Born	1788
Died	April 1847

Abdullah bin Rashid (Arabic: عبد الله بن علي الرشيد‎) founded the Emirate of Jabal Shammar, a state which he ruled from 1836[1] to 1848. Under his leadership, the Rashidi dynasty contended with the Second Saudi State in Najd and the Ottoman Empire in Iraq. His empire fell to the Saudis in 1921.[2]

References

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.
Muhammad Suwaed (2015). Historical Dictionary of the Bedouins. Rowman & Littlefield. p. 20.

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[1] 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.

[2] Muhammad Suwaed (2015). Historical Dictionary of the Bedouins. Rowman & Littlefield. p. 20.