JABAL SHAMMAR

jäˈbäl shăˈmər, former emirate, N Saudi Arabia. Its capital was at Hail. In 1921, Ibn Saud conquered the forces of the emir, Ibn Rashid, and annexed the territory to his kingdom of Nejd.

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books on: Jabal Shammar  - 29 results

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Explorers of Arabia from the Renaissance to the End of the Victorian Era
Book by Zahra Freeth, H. V. F. Winstone; Allen & Unwin, 1978
Subjects: Arabian Peninsula--Discovery And Exploration
...a European. They reached the Jabal Shammar on 23 January. All our journey...towering over all. The outline of Jabal Shammar is strangely fantastic, running...writing a journal on a rock in Jabal Shammar. When I remember how, years...
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Oil in the Middle East: Its Discovery and Development
Book by Stephen Hemsley Longrigg; Oxford University Press, 1954
Subjects: Petroleum Industry And Trade--Middle East
...101. Jabal Ali, 233 . Jabal Bishri, 92 f. Jabal Dhahran, see Dhahran. Jabal Hamrin, 71 . Jabal Makhul, 81. Jabal Shammar, 98 n. Jabal Terbol, 94 , 241. Jabal Zait, 10 , 15, 23 . Jacks, T. L., 19 , 37 , 52 . Jackson, B. R...
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Saudi Arabia
Book by H. St. John Philby; Ernest Benn, 1955
Subjects: Ibn Saud--King of Saudi Arabia--1880-1953, Saudi Arabia--History
...Dawasir province in the south to the southern border of Jabal Shammar in the north, and from the western frontier of al Ahsa...Turkish territory comprising Iraq and Syria, while Jabal Shammar, also acknowledging Ottoman suzerainty, formed a buffer...
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Saudi Arabia Enters the Twenty-First Century: The Political, Foreign Policy, Economic, and Energy Dimensions
Book by Anthony H. Cordesman; Praeger, 2003
Subjects: National Security--Saudi Arabia, Petroleum Industry And Trade--Saudi Arabia, Saudi Arabia--Politics And Government--20th Century
...order to Najd, and expanded his domains north to the Jabal Shammar and south to the borders of Oman. Faisal's death...States freed themselves from Saudi control, and the Jabal Shammar revolted. The Saudi lands fell largely under the control...
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New Arabian Studies - Vol. 2
Book by R. L. Bidwell, G. Rex Smith, J. R. Smart; University of Exeter Press, 1994
Subjects: Arabian Peninsula--History, Social Sciences--Arabian Peninsula
...result of the battle of al-S_ arif in 1901 between the Jabal Shammar ruler Abd al-Aziz bin Mutib and the allied forces...was deserted by the Utaybah who had been bribed by the Jabal Shammar amir, and next, in the course of the battle, by the...
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journal articles on: Jabal Shammar  - 3 results

 
 
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The Social Context of Pre-Islamic Poetry: Poetic Imagery and Social Reality in the Mu C Allaqat
Journal article by Jonathan A.C. Brown; Arab Studies Quarterly (ASQ), Vol. 25, 2003
...semi-arid region surrounding Jabal Shammar in north-central Saudi Arabia...for goats, sheep and camels. Jabal Shammar also has many wells, so oasis...Egyptian/Libyan nomads and those in Jabal Shammar and Northern Najd thus effectively...
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The 'Salfah' as Narrative Genre
Journal article by Bruce Ingham; Asian Folklore Studies, Vol. 52, 1993
Subjects: Bedouins--Literature, Narration (Rhetoric)--Middle East, Oral tradition--Middle East
...genre by Bruce Ingham Key words: Shammar -- Dhafir -- Najdi dialect...Hayil, was forced to flee from the Jabal Shammar under pressure from the attacks...intervention of the Twalah clan of Shammar. In order to appease the Sacdun...
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Vying for Power and Influence in the Hijaz: Ottoman Rule, the Last Emirate of Abdulmuttalib and the British (1880-1882)
Journal article by S. Tufan Buzpinar; The Muslim World, Vol. 95, 2005
Subjects: Abdulmuttalib (1794-1886), Influence, Islam, Political power, Royalty
...five letters bearing the seal of Abdulmuttalib and addressed to the British consul in Jidda, Muhammed Ibn Rashid of Jabal Shammar, Shaikh Huzayfa, Shaikhulmeshayikh of Medina, and two leading members of the Zaid family. Osman Nuri Pasa deduced...


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encyclopedia articles on: Jabal Shammar  - 3 results

 
 
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Jabal Shammar
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
JABAL SHAMMAR ja bal sha m r, former emirate, N Saudi Arabia. Its capital was at Hail. In 1921, Ibn Saud conquered the forces of the emir...
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Jebel Shammar
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
JEBEL SHAMMAR Saudi Arabia: see Jabal Shammar . ____________________ Copyright 2009 Columbia University Press. Used with the permission of Columbia University Press. All rights reserved.
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Hail , City, Saudi Arabia
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...because of its location on a pilgrimage route from Iraq to Mecca. It was the capital of the independent emirate of Jabal Shammar, which Ibn Saud conquered in 1921. ____________________ Copyright 2009 Columbia University Press...


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