Word: nejd
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...Mecca, AH, the son of Husein, strove to keep the crown in the Hasbinite family by stout resistance to the raids of the Wahabi tribesmen. Heading the Wahabis, Ibn Saud, Sultan of Nejd, harried Ali's forces, then slipped in between Jeddah and Mecca, isolating the port and cutting Mecca off from...
Husein Ibn Ali, made King of Hejaz by the British for fighting the Turks in the War, made Calif of Islam by no other than himself, opposed the heretical warriors of the Emir of Nejd; but he was not so successful as his sons, Faisal, King of Iraq, and Abdullah, Emir of Kerak (Trans-Jordan). These two monarchs had been able to employ war birds of Britain and strike terror and confusion into Ibn Saud's ferocious men by dropping fire from the skies. Husein, himself had asked the loan of a flock of war birds. But Britain refused...
...little more than 100 years ago, the Wahabis captured Mecca, capital of Islam, where is situated the tomb of the Prophet Mohammed. After bloody scenes and wild desecration, the Wahabis were crushed and chased back to their country of Nejd. On the eve of the War, Hasa was taken from the distracted Turk; and before it could be recovered the flaming tongues of the war dogs had licked the world...
Wahabis. With an increasingly jealous eye, the Emir of Nejd and Hasa viewed the opportunist power of his enemy, Husein, grow like an orchid upon the air. The brow of the beturbaned giant with the coal-black beard became furrowed with anger at the irreligion of the Shia and Sunni Moslems. He would crush them, and off to Mecca he went with 72,000 fanatics before him. He would depose their upstart Husein, he would purge Islam of Moslem impurities. He, Faisal Ibn Abdul-Aziz Ibn Saud, Calif of the Saud Sect, would rule all Islam with the sword...
...States of Arabia: Kingdom of Iraq; French Mandate of Syria; Kingdom of Hejaz; Emirate of Nejd_and Hasa; Emirate of Jebel Shammar; Principals of Asir; Imamate of Yemen; British Protectorate of Aden; Sultanate of Oman; Sultanate of Koweit; Emirate of Kerak; Emirate of Bab-el-Mandab; Emirate of Lahj; State of Hadramaut; Emirate of El-Mohammerah; Emirate of Bahrein...