Rahmah ibn Jabir Al Jalhami: Difference between revisions

[[Slavery]]<br>

Warmongering<br>

|type of villain = Pirate}}

{{Quote|When asked by one of the English gentlemen present, with a tone of encouragement and familiarity, whether he could not still dispatch an enemy with his boneless arm, he drew a crooked dagger, or yambeah, from the girdle round his shirt, and placing his left hand, which was sound, to support the elbow of the right, which was the one that was wounded, he grasped the dagger firmly with his clenched fist, and drew it backward and forward, twirling it at the same time, and saying, that he desired nothing better than to have the cutting of as many throats as he could effectually open with this lame hand! Instead of being shocked at the utterance of such a brutal wish, and such a savage triumph at still possessing the power to murder unoffending victims, I know not how to describe my feeling of shame and sorrow, when a loud burst of laughter, instead of execration, escaped from nearly the whole assembly, when I ventured to express my dissent from the general feeling of admiration for such a man.|James Silk Buckingham, an English author, about Jalhami.}}

Rahmah raided a ship belonging to the Al-Khalifa in 1826. In revenge they attacked his ship to get the stolen goods back. The pursuing ship, captained by Rahmah's nephew, defeated him and killed his slave Tarar. Taking his eight-year-old son with him, Rahmah locked himself in the magazine and blew up several barrels of gunpowder, killing himself and his entire crew as well as those boarding his ship.

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