With the end of the Kura affair, another challenge to Hashemite rule began to loom as the feud between the Banu Sakhr bedouin, led by Mithqal al-Fayez—particularly favored by Emir Abdullah, and the Adwan bedouins of Balqa, headed by Sultan al-Adwan. Dangerously exposed to the Wahhabi raids from Arabia, emir Abdullah had no intention of alienating Sultan al-Adwan, even if he did pay a special attention to Banu Sakhr. Yet, when Abdullah attempted a reconciliation, paying a formal visit to Sultan al-Adwan, he was reportedly met with refusal. Opposing Abdullah's tribal policies, Sultan had received a support from an unexpected direction—educated members of young generation in the large towns of Irbid, as-Salt and al-Karak, who began to criticize Abdullah's autocracy and demanded a democratic r