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Notes on the Bedouins and Wahâbys : collected during his travels in the East ; in two volumes / by the late John Lewis Burckhardt. London : Colburn & Bentley, 1831

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Introduction.
120 Of Saoud's person and family.
131 Wahaby Government.
135 Administration of Justice.
151 Revenues.
162 Military Affairs of the Wahabys.
180 Gháleb, Sherif of Mekka, and the Turkisch Pasha of Baghdád, at war with the Wahábys.- The holy cities, Mekka and Medinah, taken by the Wahábys.
218 Mohammed Aly, Pasha of Cairo, despatches his son Tousoun Pasha with a Turkisch army to invade Arabia. - Thomas Keith, a Scotchman, (Ibrahim Aga, ) commander of Tousoun's Mammelouks - His intrepidity - Ahmed Aga, surnamed Bonaparte - Medinah taken by the Turks, and Mekka surrendered to them.
246 Mohammed Aly Pasha proceeds from Egypt with an army of Turks - Arrives at Djidda and Mekka - Arrests Sherif Gháleb, and sends him prisoner to Cairo - Gháleb's troops assemble at Taraba.
268 The Begoum Arabs headed by a woman, regarded as a sorceress by the Turks, who are defeated at Taraba - Mohammed Aly takes Gonfode - Discontent of the Turkish troops - Death of Saoud - His son Abdallah declared chief of the Wahabys.
290 Distribution of the Turkish forces in Hedjaz - Massacre at Bahra - Mohammed Aly sends his son Tousoun Pasha to Medinah - The Turks defeated by the Wahabys in Zohrán - Mohammed Aly marches from Mekka towards Byssel - The Wahabys defeated there.
322 Turks elated with victory-their cruelty - their distresses on the march from Beishe - Mohammed Aly returns to Mekka -Makes proposals of peace to Abdallah Ibn Saoud.
342 Abdallah Ibn Saoud enters Kasym with an army - Negotiations between him and Tousoun Pasha - Peace concluded - Mohammed Aly returns to Cairo - Despatches his son Ibrahim Pasha with an army to renew the war in Hedjaz.