Reviews of A Narrative of a Year's Journey through Central and Eastern Arabia, 1862-63 by William Gifford Palgrave, Published 1865 [‎13v] (26/42)

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regard it as a meritorious act, it was not the less strictly in
accordance with their own practice of exacting blood for blood.
But that is not the only error in the passage above quoted.
We are told by Mr. Palgrave that the reign of Abd-ul-Azeez
was short. He succeeded his father, Saood, the founder of the
Vvahabee power, m 1765, and he was assassinated in 1803 He
therefore ruled the Wahabees for thirty-eight years, which'could
hardly be considered a short reign anywhere, and least of all in
A ^ A n i ," We l ^ re 1 toId 1 tllat he was succeeded by his brother
Abd-Allah; but his brother Abd-Allah never reigned, and
w e ?7i, 0ne > f® any aC( l uaintance with the history of the
Wahabees knows that he was succeeded by his eldest son Saood *
who for many years had been the successful leader of his father's
arnues, and who completed the subjugation of the Hejaz which
he had begun during his father's life.
The storm of Kateef and the massacre of its inhabitants did
but in 1791 SUbseqUent t0 180() ' as Mr - Palgrave imagines.
The attack on Meshid Allee, in which the Wahabees were
repulsed was not made, as Mr. Palgrave alleges, prior to the
sacW Kerbekh in 1801, nor till six years theater, that k
It was not during the reign of Abd-ul-Azeez, and not till 1810,
seven years after his death, that the Imam of Muscat first agreed
he P Co^ of P W I h l bee - There is no ^klence to connect
the Court of Persia with the assassination of Abd-ul-Azeez: on
ofnWv evidence goes rather to show that it was an act
of private revenge for the murder of his relatives on the part
-l 0SeyU ' ' a d r escendant > or supposed descendant, of
' ^P'OP'X hxl been
aesecrated. ihe statement that a ' written engagement sis-ned
by tL, Governor of Meshid Hoeejn w„ f„„„d o S „ d.. e°™° „r
T:™ »'» eootrar, to ,he evidence, which goes to P ptove
and whlZ^g; Xtir
many years before his fathpr'c rloQ+i, 7 ? been name d successor
laneue Persanp ■ il pto't • • UVa ns son tur ^ an un billet sans signature, ecrit en
tuer AM^ -Aziz sf „ ^ • 0nSU ! , : 'T™ Di ^. ta religion, te font un devoir de
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