Abstract
The forces unleashed in the bitter struggle between ‘Abd Allah and Saud proved too strong for any of the active Saudi contenders to contain. Muhammad Ibn Rashiďs stable and purposeful régime in Ha’il was simultaneously a powerful loadstone, and it was only the Shammar prince’s sense of timing, and, in all fairness, also of loyalty, which prevented the final catastrophe from coming sooner.
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Winder, R.B. (1965). Disintegration and Collapse. In: Saudi Arabia in the Nineteenth Century. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-81723-8_9
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