Qualla: Battle of Turubah https://qualla.com/battle-of-turubah en-us © 2026 Bendyline Mon, 20 Jul 2026 10:21:29 GMT Qualla serial false Qualla support@bendyline.com yes https://qualla.com/_m/s/g/v/8/battle-of-turubah-wp/hero-small.webp Qualla: Battle of Turubah https://qualla.com/battle-of-turubah Battle of Turubah: Introduction https://qualla.com/battle-of-turubah/ Photo credit Its author died in 1915 in Jerab, Public domain. Abdullah bin al-Hussein was nearly killed that night. His father's army had been caught in camp, unprepared, and the Ikhwan warriors of Ibn Saud cut it to pieces in the darkness. What saved the future king of Jordan was not tactics or courage but a man named Zeid Ibn Shakir - father of a general yet to be born - who gave him a horse and a camel and told him to ride. That was 26 May 1919. Within a year, Ibn Saud had taken Mecca and Jeddah. Within two, he had declared himself King of the Hejaz. Within nine, his expanding kingdom would be renamed Saudi Arabia. The Battle of Turubah, fought in a wadi far from any capital, is the hinge on which modern Arabia turned.

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]]> Thu, 23 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/s/g/v/8/battle-of-turubah-wp/sgv8-battle-of-turubah-intro.mp3 0:06 1 full Battle of Turubah: A King of Delusions https://qualla.com/battle-of-turubah/ Photo credit Its author died in 1915 in Jerab, Public domain. Hussein bin Ali, Sharif of Mecca and King of the Hejaz, had trouble seeing the world as it actually was. He believed every Arab supported him. He claimed his interpretation of the Quran superseded all clerical opinion. He dreamed of reviving a great Arab caliphate under his own l...

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]]> Thu, 23 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/s/g/v/8/battle-of-turubah-wp/sgv8-battle-of-turubah-a-king-of-delusions.mp3 0:06 2 full Battle of Turubah: The Quarrel at Taif https://qualla.com/battle-of-turubah/ Photo credit Its author died in 1915 in Jerab, Public domain. In 1918 - while the Arab Revolt was still officially allied with Britain - Abdullah picked a fight with Khalid ibn Luai, the ruler of Taif. The disagreement escalated. Ibn Luai turned for support to Ibn Saud in neighboring Najd, and in the process embraced Wahhabism. Hussein comm...

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]]> Thu, 23 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/s/g/v/8/battle-of-turubah-wp/sgv8-battle-of-turubah-the-quarrel-at-taif.mp3 0:06 3 full Battle of Turubah: A Night in a Wadi https://qualla.com/battle-of-turubah/ Photo credit Its author died in 1915 in Jerab, Public domain. The fighting at Turubah was brief and decisive. The Hashemite force under Abdullah was caught essentially unprepared. The Ikhwan - Ibn Saud's religiously motivated Bedouin fighters - struck at night. The Hashemite camp was overrun. Hundreds died. Abdullah's escape on a borrowed h...

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]]> Thu, 23 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/s/g/v/8/battle-of-turubah-wp/sgv8-battle-of-turubah-a-night-in-a-wadi.mp3 0:06 4 full Battle of Turubah: Hussein's Unraveling https://qualla.com/battle-of-turubah/ Photo credit Its author died in 1915 in Jerab, Public domain. The effect on Hussein was worse than the effect on Abdullah. He fell ill. He blamed his son. He became obsessed with revenge on Ibn Saud - and also, in a final flourish of the delusions that had characterized his reign, demanded from T. E. Lawrence that the British grant him comp...

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]]> Thu, 23 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/s/g/v/8/battle-of-turubah-wp/sgv8-battle-of-turubah-husseins-unraveling.mp3 0:06 5 full Battle of Turubah: Who Fell and Who Rose https://qualla.com/battle-of-turubah/ Photo credit Its author died in 1915 in Jerab, Public domain. The men who died at Turubah deserve to be remembered as individuals, not as units of a defeat. Hussein's army was drawn from the Hejaz and from levies across his shrinking kingdom. Many of the Ikhwan who killed them were tribesmen whose families had fought the Hashemites for gene...

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