Abstract
The attacks the Najd tribes launched against Karbala’ at the outset of the nineteenth century are considered an example of tribal disputes and wars that concealed different aims and left clear and deep effects on the whole political and economic conditions of the area population. The researcher has attempted to give a prefatory view about the Iraqi-Saudi relations during the period that preceded the events in study. It aimed at knowing the real reasons that caused those attacks which were various and interlinked reasons, including what is political, economic and sectarian. As for the raids launched, the first and most severe one was that of 1802, in which the researcher discussed so many affairs such as number of fighters, its timing, and its victims. Then he identified the errors made by the previous researchers. He displayed the murder and plunder operations committed in the raid, discussed the attitudes the international and Islamic forces adopted at that time against Karbalaa’ events, such as the Memalik government in Iraq, the Ottoman state, and the British, and explained the effect of that on each other relations. The researcher then studied the following raids happened in the years 1803, 1804, 1805, 1807 and 1810, and invaded Karbalaa’, Najaf, Basrah, and the Muntafiq tribes in the south of Iraq. |