Bandar bin Talal Al Rashid

Bandar bin Talal Al Rashid (c. 1850–1869) was one of the rulers of the Emirate of Jabal Shammar. His reign was very brief, just for barely one year. He killed his uncle, Mutaib, to become the emir and was murdered by his other uncle, Muhammad, who ruled the Emirate until 1897.

Bandar bin Talal Al Rashid
Emir of Jabal Shammar
Reign1869
PredecessorMutaib bin Abdullah Al Rashid
SuccessorMuhammad bin Abdullah Al Rashid
Bornc. 1850
Died1869 (aged 18–19)
Names
Bandar bin Talal bin Abdullah bin Ali
HouseRashidi dynasty
FatherTalal bin Abdullah

Biography

Bandar was born in around 1850.[1] He was the eldest son of the second emir Talal bin Abdullah and a grandson of the Abdullah bin Ali Al Rashid who founded the Emirate in 1836.[2]

Bandar and his brother, Badr, murdered their uncle and the emir, Mutaib bin Abdullah, in Barzan Palace in 1869, and Bandar became the emir of Jabal Shammar.[2][3] The reason for the killing of Mutaib was his maltreatment of them.[1] Due to this incident an intra-familial and succession crisis occurred, and the older senior members of the family including Bandar's uncle Muhammad bin Abdullah and his great uncle Ubayd left Hail for Riyadh.[4][5] However, the exile of Muhammad had very undesired effects on the commercial activities since he was very competent in managing the caravan and Hajj related activities, and Bandar went to Riyadh and asked his uncle to return to Hail who accepted his offer and continued to assume his previous post.[1][6]

In 1869 Bandar was killed by his uncle, Muhammad bin Abdullah, because of the disputes.[4] Then Muhammad bin Abdullah ruled the Emirate until 1897.[4] Following this Bandar's brothers went into exile.[6] However, there is another report suggesting that Muhammad bin Abdullah executed them and other members of the family following the murder of Bandar.[2]

References
  1. R. Bayly Winder (1965). Saudi Arabia in the Nineteenth Century. London: Palgrave Macmillan. p. 243. doi:10.1007/978-1-349-81723-8. ISBN 9780333055410.
  2. Muhammad Suwaed (2015). Historical Dictionary of the Bedouins. Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield. p. 20. ISBN 978-1-4422-5451-0.
  3. 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): 175. doi:10.2307/2844424. JSTOR 2844424.
  4. Wilfrid Scawen Blunt (February 1880). "A Visit to Jebel Shammar (Nejd). New Routes Through Northern and Central Arabia". Proceedings of the Royal Geographical Society and Monthly Record of Geography. 2 (2): 81–102. doi:10.2307/1800398. JSTOR 1800398.
  5. Eveline J. van der Steen (2009). "Tribal States in History: The Emirate of Ibn Rashid as a Case Study". Al Rafidan. 30: 120.
  6. 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. 79. ProQuest 303993600.
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