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The Emirate of Jabal Shammar (Arabic: إِمَارَة جَبَل شَمَّر, romanized: Imārah Jabal Shamaar), also known as the Emirate of Haʾil (إِمَارَة حَائِل) [2] or the Rashidi Emirate (إِمَارَة آل رَشِيْد), was a state in the northern part of the Arabian Peninsula, including Najd, existing from the mid-nineteenth century to 1921. [3]
The Bedouin Shammari tribesmen provided the majority of the Al Rashid's military support. Later, in the first two decades of the 20th century, Al Rashid were defeated by Ibn Saud and his Wahhabi forces when his campaign to restore his family's rule in the Arabian Peninsula culminated in the Conquest of Ha'il in 1921. [ 6 ]
Asi bin Shuraim Al Shammari (Arabic: عاصي بن الشريم الشمري) (c. 1854–1937) was an Arab leader of the powerful Shammar tribe and the grandfather of King Abdullah of Saudi Arabia. He was a member of the Abde section of the Shammar tribe. [1] [2] He was a former tribal chief [3] and the sheikh of the southern part of the tribe. [4]
Aja landscape. The Aja Mountains are to an extent made up of granite, whereas the Salma are made up of basalt. [1] The phrase "Hadn formation" was used by Chevremont (1982) to refer to volcanic rocks of the area of Ha'il, and was treated by Hadley and Schmidt (1980) as being part of a silicic and volcaniclastic sequence referred to as the "Shammar group", in a broader, regional context.
Abdulaziz Al Saud, Emir of Nejd and future King of Saudi Arabia, made it his goal to take over the territory of Jabal Shammar. [1] Emir Muhammad, the people of Ha'il, and the Shammar and Bani Tamim tribes fought several battles against the Al Saud forces, but Abdulaziz was triumphant, and the Emirate of Ha'il (Jabal Shammar) was subsumed into ...
An Introduction to Richard Wagner's "Der Ring des Nibelungen" (audio, with extracts from the Solti version and some specially recorded demonstrations). Recorded 1967; released on LP 1968; re-packaged and re-released 1969; remastered and re-released on CD 1995. Transcript of Cooke's Introduction.
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Mona Al-Shamari (born 1966) is a Kuwaiti novelist and writer. She studied theatre and drama at Kuwait University . She started publishing short stories in the late 1980s; in 1990, one of her stories ("The Funeral's Meow") won a prize from the Emirati Writers' Union .