The leader of the Hashimate delegation to Ethiopia in 1917

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The Hashemites (a dynasty directly descended from the Prophet Mohammed ﷺ) led the great Arab uprising against the Ottoman Empire with the help of the British during World War I. They traditionally ruled over Hejaz, which included Mecca and Medina, as Sharifs for centuries under the Ottoman Sultans. In the same year as Emperor Lij Iyasu of Ethiopia was dethroned, the newly freed Arabs had proclaimed Sharif Hussein bin Ali Al Hashem as King Hussein of the Hashemite Kingdom of Hejaz. This man(pictured above) had evidently come as the representative of King Hussein. Just a few years later in 1925, the King of another Arabian peninsula kingdom of Nejd, Abdul Aziz Al Saud, conquered Hejaz and drove out the Hashemites from Mecca. By 1932 Abdul Aziz was able to incorporate the additional kingdoms of Qatif and Al Hasa with Hejaz and Nejd into the new Kingdom of Saudi Arabia.

Britain & France however believed that they owed the overthrown Hashemite Princes a great debt for raising the Arab world in rebellion against the Ottomans. Therefore when they carved out new Arab countries out of the former Ottoman provinces, they proposed Hashemite princes as kings for these states. The Syrians refused a Hashemite King, but both Iraq and Jordan became Hashemite Kingdoms. Jordan remains a Hashemite kingdom today.
 
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JackieBurkhart

The years don't matter, the life in those years do
How disgusting. Destroying one of the biggest Islamic empires for their colonial masters. Langaab behavior. This is why Europeans were able to colonize.

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