Bandar bin Talal Al Rashid explained

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

Biography

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

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] 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] [5]}

In 1869 Bandar was killed by his uncle, Muhammad bin Abdullah, because of the disputes. Then Muhammad bin Abdullah ruled the Emirate until 1897.^[6] Following this, Bandar's brothers went into exile.^[5] However, another report suggests that Muhammad bin Abdullah executed Bandar's brothers and other members of the family following the murder of Bandar.^[2]

Notes and References

1. Book: R. Bayly Winder. Saudi Arabia in the Nineteenth Century. 1965. Palgrave Macmillan. 9780333055410. 243. 10.1007/978-1-349-81723-8. London.
2. Book: Muhammad Suwaed. Lanham, MD. Rowman & Littlefield. Historical Dictionary of the Bedouins. 2015. 978-1-4422-5451-0. 20.
3. Henry Rosenfeld. 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. 1965. 95. 2. 175. 10.2307/2844424. 2844424.
4. Eveline J. van der Steen. 120. Tribal States in History: The Emirate of Ibn Rashid as a Case Study. Al Rafidan. 2009. 30.
5. Michael John Baran. The Rashidi Amirate of Hayl: The Rise, Development and Decline of a Pre-Modern Arabian Principality, 1835–1921. PhD. University of Michigan. 79. 1992. .
6. Wilfrid Scawen Blunt. A Visit to Jebel Shammar (Nejd). New Routes Through Northern and Central Arabia. Proceedings of the Royal Geographical Society and Monthly Record of Geography. February 1880. 2. 2. 81–102. 1800398. 10.2307/1800398. Wilfrid Scawen Blunt.