Ha'il (Arabic: حائل‎) is an oasis city in Najd in northwestern Saudi Arabia and is the capital of the Ha'il Province. The city has a population of 267,005 (2004 census). Traditionally Ha'il derived its wealth from being on the camel caravan route of the Hadj. Arabic ( or just ) is the largest living member of the Semitic language family in terms of speakers. ... Oasis in the Libyan part of the Sahara For other uses, see Oasis (disambiguation). ... Najd or Nejd (Arabic: Naǧd) is a region in central Saudi Arabia and the location of the nations capital, Riyadh. ... Hail is a province of Saudi Arabia, located in the north of the country. ... 2004 (MMIV) was a leap year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Species Camelus bactrianus Camelus dromedarius Camelus gigas Camelus hesternus Camelus sivalensis Camels are even-toed ungulates in the genus Camelus. ... The Hajj or Haj is the Pilgrimage to Mecca (or, Makkah) and is the fifth of the Five Pillars of Islam. Every able-bodied Muslim who can afford to do so is obliged to make the pilgrimage to Mecca at least once in a lifetime. ...

Center of power: 1836-1921

The extent of Al Rashid's rule

Ha'il was the center of the ibn rashid amirs from 1836 until 1921. The 1st. ibn rashid amir, Abdullah bin Rashid, took power in 1836 from the former ruler of Hail, Mohammad Ibn Ali, who was a fellow member of the Jafaar linage of the Abde section of the Shammar tribe. Abdulla bin Rashid continued constructing the Barzan palace in Hail which had been started by Mohammad Ibn Ali. After the death of Abdullah bin Rashid (in 1847 or 1848) his son and successor, Talal (or Telal), completed the palace. Image File history File links No higher resolution available. ... Image File history File links No higher resolution available. ... Entrance to the emirs palace in Bukhara. ... Year 1836 (MDCCCXXXVI) was a leap year starting on Friday (link will display the full calendar) of the Gregorian Calendar (or a leap year starting on Wednesday of the 12-day slower Julian calendar). ... Year 1921 (MCMXXI) was a common year starting on Saturday (see link for full calendar). ... The house of Shammar is one of the largest tribes of Arabia. ...

During the ibn rashid period many foreign travellers visited Ha'il and the ibn rashid amirs, and described their impressions in different journals/books, see e.g.: G. A. Wallin 1854, William Gifford Palgrave 1865, Lady Anne Blunt 1881, Charles Montagu Doughty 1888 and Gertrude Bell 1907. Georg (George) August Wallin (Yrjö Aukusti Wallin, aka Abd al-Wali; October 24, 1811 – October 23, 1852) was a Finnish orientalist, explorer and professor remembered for his journeys in the Middle East during the 1840s. ... William Gifford Palgrave (1826–1888) was an Arabic scholar, born at Westminster, England. ... Anne Isabella (Annabella) Noel Blunt, née King-Noel, 15th Baroness Wentworth (22 September 1837-15 December 1917), known for most of her life as Lady Anne Blunt, was co-founder with her husband the poet Wilfrid Scawen Blunt of the Crabbet Arabian Stud. ... Charles Montagu Doughty (1843 - 1926) was an English poet and traveler. ... Gertrude Margaret Lowthian Bell (July 14, 1868–July 12, 1926) was a British woman who had a major hand in creating the modern state of Iraq. ...

The ibn rashid amirs were considered relatively tolerant towards foreigners, including traders in Ha'il:

"Many of these traders belonged to the Shiyaa sect, hated by all good Sonnites, doubly hated by the Wahabees. But Telal affected not to perceive their religious discrepancies, and silenced all murmurs by marks of special favour towards these very dissenters, and also by the advantages which their presence was not long in procuring for the town". William Gifford Palgrave, 1865. Shiʻa Islam (Arabic شيعى follower; English has traditionally used Shiite) makes up the second largest sect of believers in Islam, constituting about 30%–35% of all Muslim. ... Sunni Islam (Arabic سنّة) is the largest denomination of Islam. ... Wahhabism (sometimes spelled Wahabbism or Wahabism) is a movement of Islam named after Muhammad ibn Abd al Wahhab (1703–1792). ...

Decline

The opening of the Hejaz railway between Damascus and Medina together with new inexpensive steamship routes to Jeddah undermined the traditional camel caravan economy of Ha'il. al Hijaz Station in Damascus, starting point of the railroad The 1050mm gauge Hejaz railway (also Hedjaz, etc. ... Damascus at sunset Damascus ( translit: Also commonly: الشام ash-Shām) is the largest city of Syria and is also the capital. ... This article or section does not adequately cite its references or sources. ... This article is about the Saudi Arabian city. ...

The last ibn rashid amir was ousted from power by Ibn Saud of Saudi Arabia in 1921. Ibn Saud then gave orders to destroy the Barzan palace and also ordered the ibn rashid leaders to move from Ha'il. `Abd al-`Azīz as-Sa`ūd ( 1880 - November 9, 1953) (Arabic:عبدالعزيز آل سعود) was the first monarch of Saudi Arabia. ... Year 1921 (MCMXXI) was a common year starting on Saturday (see link for full calendar). ...

After this Ha'il fell into steep decline, as witnessed by E. Rutter in 1931: 1931 (MCMXXXI) was a common year starting on Thursday (link is to a full 1931 calendar). ...

"Hail seem like a city marooned among the sand....the population of Hail was plainly in decline. Numbers of houses in the northern quarter of the town were in ruins....many people of Hail had fled to the comfortable realms of King Faisal of Iraq..." This article or section does not cite its references or sources. ...

Present

Ha'il today is the center of the agricultural program of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. Most of the wheat crops of the Kingdom comes from the area surrounding Ha'il. Species T. aestivum T. boeoticum T. compactum T. dicoccoides T. dicoccon T. durum T. monococcum T. spelta T. sphaerococcum T. timopheevii References:   ITIS 42236 2002-09-22 For the indie rock group see: Wheat (band). ...

References

• G. A. Wallin (1854): Narrative of a journey from Cairo to Medina and Mecca, by Suez, Araba, Tawila, al-Jauf, Jublae, Hail and Negd in 1845, Journal of the Royal Geographical Society, vol 24: 115-201. (Reprinted 1979).
• William Gifford Palgrave (1865): Personal Narrative of a Year's Journey through Central and Eastern Arabia (1862-1863), 2 vols (London: Macmillan & Co). (Reprinted many times, last(?) in 1985.)
• Lady Anne Blunt (1881): A Pilgrimage to Nejd, The Cradle of the Arab Race: an Visit to the Court of the Arab Emir and `our Persian Campaign` (Reprinted 1968)
• Charles Montagu Doughty (1888): Travels in Arabia Deserta. (Reprinted many times)
• Gertrude Bell (1907): The Desert and the Sown (Republished 1987)
• E. Rutter (1931): Damascus to Hail. Journal of Royal Central Asian Studies, vol 18: 61-73.
• D. G. Hogarth (1905): The Penetration of Arabia: a Record of Western Knowledge Concerning the Arabian Peninsula.
• Madawi Al Rasheed: Politics in an Arabian oasis. The ibn rashid Tribal Dynasty. I.B. Tauris & Co Ltd, London -New York 1991 (based on a Ph.D. thesis presented to Cambridge University, 1988). ISBN 1-85043-320-8
• Lonely Planet: The Middle East, 3rd edition 2000. ISBN 0-86442-701-8

Georg (George) August Wallin (Yrjö Aukusti Wallin, aka Abd al-Wali; October 24, 1811 – October 23, 1852) was a Finnish orientalist, explorer and professor remembered for his journeys in the Middle East during the 1840s. ... William Gifford Palgrave (1826–1888) was an Arabic scholar, born at Westminster, England. ... Anne Isabella (Annabella) Noel Blunt, née King-Noel, 15th Baroness Wentworth (22 September 1837-15 December 1917), known for most of her life as Lady Anne Blunt, was co-founder with her husband the poet Wilfrid Scawen Blunt of the Crabbet Arabian Stud. ... Charles Montagu Doughty (1843 - 1926) was an English poet and traveler. ... Gertrude Margaret Lowthian Bell (July 14, 1868–July 12, 1926) was a British woman who had a major hand in creating the modern state of Iraq. ... David George Hogarth (born May 23, 1862 in Barton-upon-Humber, Lincolnshire; died November 6, 1927 in Oxford) was an English archaeologist and scholar, associated with T. E. Lawrence and Arthur Evans. ... The University of Cambridge (usually abbreviated as Cantab. ...

Hail City Resource Websites

• http://www.geocities.com/shahzsyed

Saudi Arabian Cities

List of main Saudi Arabian cities

|`Afif | `Ar`ar | Abha | Abqaiq | Al Bahah | Buraidah | Ad Dammam | Dhahran | Ad Dir`iyah | Duba | Ha'il | Al Hufuf | Al Jawf | Jeddah | Jizan | Al Jubayl | King Abdullah Economic City | Khamis Mushayt | Al Kharj | Khobar | Layla | Al Majma'ah | Mecca (Makkah) | Medina | Najran | Qal'at Bishah | Al Qatif | Ras Tanura | Ra's al Khafji | Riyadh (National Capital) | Sudair | As Sulayyil | At Ta'if | Tabuk | Udaliyah | `Unayzah | Yanbu' al Bahr |

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