What If the Rashid Dynasty retained control of Arabia?

Saudi Arabia is a big influence on our lives due to their control of rich oil fields and their ties to Wahhabisim (given its connection to the House of Saud.) Of course, the Sauds didn't always control Arabia. They ended up getting Arabia under them in 1921 when they took Ha'il.

But what if they didn't? What if the Rashid's plans to ally other tribes against the Sauds and maybe even got outside help? The Rashids did seek positive relations with the Ottomans and while it didn't work out in the long run due to the decline of the Ottomans, doesn't mean they couldn't try again with the new Republic of Turkey or maybe even the British.

How do you think could change things for the Middle East?

Well, the elephant in the room is that Wahhabism would be nowhere near prominent if not downright extinct. Wahhabism was aligned closely with the House of Saud and if the Sauds were pretty beaten back, Wahhabism would die out or at the very least, become very culturally isolated (maybe to Kuwait if the Sauds were banished there again, though give the scale of war, the Saud family may well be destroyed here).

I'm not sure how likely the Rashid dynasty would be able to form a deal with outside powers against the Saud, though the Turkey thing could remain a possibility and it be interesting to see Turkish influence on the Rashids and if that with the oil would cause a greater form of progressive movements or modernization.

But what's everyone's thoughts on this?
 
Well, the Saudis and Rashid controlled different areas. The Saudis didn't have the best of areas, outside of the Shia populated coast they seized that the Ottomans still hadsomede jure claims over. Might get Saudi support to get the Rashid in charge of the Nejd, but Hejaz is too holy to lose, and the Persian Gulf Coast would be seized by the Ottomans if they helped putting down the Saudis. Unsure if the Rashid would be able to get the Trucial States to give up land to them like the Saudis did, but otherwise you get a pretty much landlocked state, surrounded by the Ottomans and various British satellites.
 
Well, the Saudis and Rashid controlled different areas. The Saudis didn't have the best of areas, outside of the Shia populated coast they seized that the Ottomans still hadsomede jure claims over. Might get Saudi support to get the Rashid in charge of the Nejd, but Hejaz is too holy to lose, and the Persian Gulf Coast would be seized by the Ottomans if they helped putting down the Saudis. Unsure if the Rashid would be able to get the Trucial States to give up land to them like the Saudis did, but otherwise you get a pretty much landlocked state, surrounded by the Ottomans and various British satellites.

Yes, but mind you, the Saudi-Rashid Wars also occurred after the Ottoman Empire collapsed and was carved between the varios European powers, leaving onyl Turkey. I don't know much in regards to to the Rashid dynasty with outsiders, but if they're willing to work with Turkey, they might strike a deal with Britain or at least in good terms. In any case, instead of a Saudi Arabia, we would have a Rishid Arabia.
 
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