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before he marched against them^ and immediately began to attack 
their neighbours, in order to oblige them to change their religion, 
and give up their property. By these means Abdul Waheb secured 
to himself the supreme power over the whole province of Nedjed, 
while, by his most powerful servant, Sheik Mekrami, he carried his 
hostilities into Yemen. On his death he was peaceably succeeded in 
his spiritual and temporal power by his son Abduluziz. 
I have not been able to learn the date of Abduluziz's accession, 
but he reigned till May 1803, when he was assassinated, while at 
prayers in a mosque at Darail, his capital, by an Arab, whose daugh- 
ter he had forcibly carried away from her home many years before. 
The Arab immediately sold all his property, and w:\h a patient 
perseverance followed the footsteps of his oppressor, whom, at 
length, though his spiritual and temporal sovereign, he sacrificed to 
his private revenge. 
During the reign of Abduluziz, the religion of his father was 
extended over the greater part of the peninsula of Arabia, either by 
the arms of his son Suud, or by his followers. Many Arab tribes of 
the Great Desert also recognised him as their religious head; and 
even in temporal concerns, indirectly admitted his authority, by 
remitting him a proportion of their plunder, for charitable purposes, 
when they took possession of the celebrated burying place of Hossein 
at Arbela, and, according to their invariable practice, destroyed his 
magnificent tomb, so highly venerated by the Persians, and the 
other followers of Ali. 
The Sheriffe of Abou Arish had, as I have formerly mentioned, 
been appointed by the Imaum of Sana, Dola of Loheia, where he 
aoon became independent. The different Sheiks, who held many of 
