Abdul Rahman ibn Abdallah

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Abdul Rahman ibn Abdallah

Abdul Rahman ibn Abdallah (* 1850 ; † 1928 ), Imam of the Wahhabis (1889–1891 and 1902–1928) belongs to the Saud dynasty .

Abdul Rahman ibn Abdallah was the son of Abdallah III. ibn Faisal , who as Imam since 1865 was both religious and secular ruler of the Wahhabis .

In 1871 his uncle Saud II ibn Faisal , a brother of his father's, succeeded in seizing power. Abdul Rahman fled the Najd with his father . Sent by his father to the Ottoman governors in Iraq , he managed to intervene in al-Hasa . When the Ottomans established their rule in al-Hasa (1872), Abdul Rahman tried to drive them out through an uprising in al-Hufuf, but this failed, so he had to flee again.

A civil war ensued between father and uncle. When Saud II died in 1873 of wounds sustained during a campaign, Abdul Rahman helped his father regain control as an imam in the Najd. When his father died in 1889, he succeeded him after his brother Muhammad renounced the line of succession.

However, he could not achieve the recognition of Muhammad ar-Raschid (1869-1897), the leader of the Shammar . He occupied Riyadh in 1891 and forced Abdul Rahman and his family to flee to Kuwait .

In 1902, his son Abd al-Aziz ibn Saud (1880–1953) succeeded in conquering Fort Masmak in Riyadh and reestablishing the Saudi kingdom in Najd. Abd al-Aziz recognized his father as the imam of the Wahhabis, for which Abdul Rahman gave him a free hand in the government. Abd al-Aziz succeeded in the unification of the Najd and the establishment of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia .

literature

• Jörg-Dieter Brandes: … with saber and Koran, Saudi Arabia or the rise of the Saud royal family and the Wahabites. Thorbecke, Stuttgart 1999, ISBN 3-7995-0094-4 .