Talk:Emirate of Al-Rasheed

The accurate title name
I think the most accurate title name for this article academically is "The Emirate of Al-Rasheed" rather than "The Emirate of Jabal Shammar" for the following reasons:

1- "Jabal Shammar" means "the mountain of shammar" which is a modern tribe and we have more authentic names for the mountain goes back 2000 years earlier like "Aja mountain" or "jabal Tayy" which is an ancient tribe.

2- "The Emirate of Jabal Shammar" is a classical name used by explorers in their literature for Al-Rasheed rule in Ha'il. However, there are also earlier elite-family who ruled in Ha'il "al-Ali" before Al-Rasheed. So the problem is how can we distinguish between them if we call it "The Emirate of Jabal Shammar".

I agree that "Jabal Shammar" is also well known name for the mountain today, but "The Emirate of Jabal Shammar" is confusing if we take in consideration that the historical names & that there was earlier rulers before Al-Rasheed, whom ruled for centuries earlier.

"The Emirate of Al-Rasheed" is the best name for this article. It's alright to mention "The Emirate of Jabal Shammar" in the article as a other known classical name used by some historians in that period. --Nadbaqa (talk) 00:01, 26 March 2015 (UTC)