This paper explores the intersection of memory, conflict, and the nation-state in Transjordan. Beginning in April 1921, a conflict between local tribesmen and the Mandate government’s military representatives flared up in the region of al-Kura, located in the environs of ‘Ajlun and Irbid in what is now the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan. Dozens of government troops were killed. The soldiers who survived the clash, surrendered, disbanded, and deserted the army, leaving the government defenseless. By June 1922, after several skirmishes, the Mandate government with British air support subdued the tribes. Despite the liminal nature of the events, the al-Kura Incident was an important turning point for the region as it entered the post-World War I era when the geography and destiny of the region were internationally and regionally contested. As a contested site, various memories have formed to understand this event and its implications for the future of the Mandate. Thus, with collective memory as its focus, this paper analyzes these resulting memories--British, Hashemite, and even tribal--that are situated within a specific historical moment. This project intervenes in the traditional historiography, however, by introducing and examining the memory of an exiled Syrian Arab Nationalist, Khayr al-Din al-Zirkali (1893-1976), whose extensive account of the al-Kura Incident was forgotten in favor of the colonial and proto-nationalist remembered histories. In contrast to these memories, al-Zirkali’s account locates the event within a specific regional moment—the transition from an Ottoman system to the Mandate system—when the future of the region was still nebulous and contested. While the colonial archives offer a simple account of the event, later memoirs provide a historical narrative of the Incident that highlight its significance to the formation of the Transjordanian state. By examining the history of the Incident from the perspective of collective memory, this paper attempts to explore the unique formation of the tribal, nationalist, and colonial memories, and how they relate to the historical narrative. Such a memory study as presented by this paper provides a glimpse into a specific regional moment and how the memories of a conflict--taking place within a contested space--affect the formation and development of a state, In doing so, the paper reveals how the memory of a State is an ongoing and contested site of analysis.