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Muhammad ibn Rashid
Muhammad ibn Rashid was emir of Jabal Shammar in northern Arabia from 1869 to 1897 and the greatest ruler of the Rashidi dynasty. He exploited the civil war in the second Saudi state to take Riyadh in 1887, and his victory at Mulayda in 1891 made him master of central Arabia. His capital Ha'il prospered from the pilgrim and caravan trade.
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