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his forces with weapons and ammunition, then he marched with them to fight the
Wahhabis and clashed and defeated some of them they encountered on the way, then seized from them about one hundred thousand sheep, which he them to Basra, and the people received them with joy, and the women were singing. Then the sheep were slaughtered so that people could taste the taste of meat after they had been deprived of it for a long time. Thuwaini wrote about this to Sulayman the Great in Baghdad, informing him and asking him for help. The ruler sent him an army under the command of “Ahmed Agha bin Al-Iraqi.” Ahmed Agha marched with the army until he met Sheikh Thuwaini in Al-Jahra. Thuwaini also asked the governor of Basra to support him with archers and artillery, at the same time he sent to “Barak bin Abdul Mohsen Al-Sardah,” the leader of Bani Khalid, urging him to mobilize his clans to join him in Al-Jahra, so Al-Sardah came to him, along with all of
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Thuwaini captured Al-Ahsa, he would lose influence to them. Disorder and lack of organization began to spread among the ranks of the campaign, which was broke down to smaller units. Nasser, Thuwaini’s brother, and some of those with him tried to maintain order, but everyone dispersed around him. The campaign began to withdraw north without proper communication after abandoning its artillery and ammunition, which provided the opportunity for Ibn
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provided him with an army under the command of his nephew, "Hassan bin
Mishari bin Saud.” As for Sheikh Thuwaini, he landed at Al-Tuff water close to his opponent, but he did not want to rush the war as he turned away from the Wahhabis. Then he departed with his armies from Al-Tuff and marched until he landed at Al-Shabak, which is a well-known water in the lands of Bani Khalid, and he had the intention of heading towards Diriyah, which sparked The concern of the Saudi state. Prince Saud bin Abdul Aziz moved and stayed at Rawdat al-Tanhat for a few days, then moved from there to Hafar al-Ash, where he camped for more than a month. Imam Abdul Aziz also ordered some
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Porte during the years (1210/1211 AH - 1795/1796 AD) urging him to fight the
Wahhabis, yet he would stall and give various excuses, including his old age and his ailing health. In addition to the claim that he is busy strengthening his capital, Baghdad, and its outskirts against the Wahhabi threat, and he does not currently have the ability to carry out a campaign in that direction. However, he was monitoring the situation well and was aware of the strength of the Wahhabis, and that he could not end the matter alone, because his army could not launch into the desert quickly.
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of Bani Khalid named “Tais” ambushed him. Tais had a hook in his hand that had a light spear in it, so he stabbed him from behind, between his shoulders, the other point of the spear came out of his chest.0 Thuwaini died instantly, and Tuais was killed shortly thereafter. The body of Sheikh
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and other destinations came to him every day declaring allegiance to him in Najd. The committee was able to portray the situation to
Sulayman the Great, who in turn delivered the message to the Sublime Porte, the results of the investigations had revealed that the problem can no longer be tolerated.
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considering his geographical closeness to Najd. So the ruler sent a special committee to Najd to survey the situation with the knowledge of the Saudi Prince Abdul Aziz bin
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Thuwaini Al-Saadoun's oppritunity to spring to action. Thuwaini at the time was under house arrest by Sulayman the Great for past dissenting actions. Thuwaini offered Sulayman Pasha to volunteer to fight the Wahhabis in exchange of having his sheikhdom of Al-Muntafiq tribe returned to him.
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1212 AH/1797 AD and went to the village of Umm Al-Abbas, which is close to the Shuyoukh market, and plundered it. Hamoud Al-Thamer pursued them, but they escaped and returned to their homes.The ruler prepared another campaign, led by his daughter’s husband, Ali al-Kahiya, to invade Al-Ahsa in 1798
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of Sheikh Thuwaini Al-Saadoun was significant in Baghdad and the Sublime Porte. In Baghdad, his death caused panic and anxiety because the state depended on his skills for repelling the Wahhabi advancement towards Iraq. Nasser bin Abdullah, Thuwaini’s brother, tried to maintain the remnants of the
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When the news of Thuwaini’s death became public, Barak al-Sardah slipped away with Bani Khalid and joined the army of Hassan bin Mishari. They had had previous correspondences because he regretted his path with Thuwaini after he saw his interest in the sons of Arayar. He was certain that if Sheikh
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The Wahhabi army had gathered under the leadership of “Muhammad bin Mu’aqil” in Jiriya. When he learned that Sheikh Thuwaini was coming towards him with those armies, he retreated in fear with his army from Jiriya and camped in Umm Rabi’ah. He sent to Imam Abdul Aziz asking him for supplies, so he
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Complaints to the Sublime Porte against the Wahhabi expansion continued to increase, as they took control of Najd and most of Al-Ahsa and began expanding northward towards southern Iraq. After Sharif Ghalib’s correspondences, the governor Ottoman of the Levant, Ahmed Pasha Al-Jazzar, sent a letter
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446:(1744- 1765 AD) and spread throughout Najd and Al-Ahsa, but he was wary of confronting the Ottoman Empire. After his death, his son Abdul Aziz assumed power between 1765–1803. Abdul Aziz was more committed to Wahhabi teachings than his father and more daring and impulsive. He seized control of
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1208 AH/1797 AD warning the Sublime Porte of the seriousness of the situation. Accordingly, a consultation council met in Istanbul to discuss the issue. Due to the lack of resourcefulness of the council, it decided to assign Sulayman the great, the ruler of Baghdad, to deal with the issue,
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diminished, which consequently reduced the resources of the Sharif of Mecca Surur bin Musa’id (died 1788 AD). In 1770 AD, the Sharif of Mecca wrote to the Sublime Porte explaining the Wahhabis' danger and demanding they be subjected to persecution and crushed. But the
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When the army was busy setting up camp in “Al-Shabak”, which is a Bani Khalid watershed close to the sea, on Wednesday, June 28, 1797 AD / Muharram 4, 1212 AH, Sheikh Thuwaini was separated from his entourage, and approaching the tent of Muhammad Al-Arayer, and a slave
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was carried to his tent, and word spread among the leaders of Al-Muntafiq tribes that he was injured and began sending him coffee and tea until they made his brother Nasser Emir in his place, and he was buried secretly on Al-Amayer
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forces that headed towards Al-Ahsa. Due to his death, the ranks of the Iraqi campaign became disorganized and were forced to retreat. The Saudi forces chased the remnants of the army to the borders of modern day
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Desert were subjected to several cruel attacks by the Wahhabis, and their preachers spread in the offices and hostels of the Euphrates tribes, spreading their opinions and beliefs among the tribes and cities.
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Sulayman the Great agreed and bestowed him the sheikhdom agai, as well as provide him with fifty thousand qurush, 100 Camels,100 horses and 100 armor. Thuwaini distributed these gift before leaving Baghdad.
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except the Mahashir clans. Sheikh Thuwaini remained camped in Al-Jahra for three months until his armies were integrated, after the convoys arrived from Kuwait,
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of the Hejaz were ebbing and flowing, and the Hajj route was damaged as a result of the Wahhabi raids, so the number of pilgrims decreased and the resources for
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disappointed. Because they were prevented from performing Hajj, Abdul Aziz Al Saud directed his raids towards the outskirts of Hejaz and Iraq.
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government said after investigation that the matter was nothing more than an exaggeration. In fact, the Ottoman Empire did not care about the
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