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Saud of Saudi Arabia. Saud bin Abdulaziz Al Saud ( Arabic: سعود بن عبد العزيز آل سعود, romanized : Suʿūd bin ʿAbd al ʿAzīz Āl Suʿūd; 15 January 1902 – 23 February 1969) was King of Saudi Arabia from 9 November 1953 until his abdication on 2 November 1964.
- 9 November 1953 – 2 November 1964
- Wadha bint Muhammad Al Orair
Saudi Arabia, officially the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia (KSA), is a country in West Asia and the Middle East. It covers the bulk of the Arabian Peninsula and has a land area of about 2 150 000 km 2 ( 830 000 sq mi), making it the fifth-largest country in Asia and the largest in the Middle East.
Apr 2, 2024 · Saud dynasty, rulers of Saudi Arabia. In the 18th century Muhammad ibn Saud (died 1765), chief of an Arabian village that had never fallen under control of the Ottoman Empire, rose to power together with the Wahhābī religious movement.
- The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica
House of Saud is a translation of Al Saud, an Arabic dynastic name formed by adding the word Al (meaning "family of" or "House of") to the personal name of an ancestor. In the case of the Al Saud, the ancestor is Saud ibn Muhammad ibn Muqrin , the father of the dynasty's 18th century founder Muhammad bin Saud (Muhammad, son of Saud).
- 1720; 303 years ago
- Saud I (died 1725)
- Salman bin Abdulaziz
- Wahhabism (followers of Mohammed ibn Abdulwahhab) /revival
Apr 5, 2024 · Saud (born January 15, 1902, Kuwait—died February 23, 1969, Athens, Greece) was the son of Ibn Saud and his successor as king of Saudi Arabia from 1953 to 1964. After Ibn Saud conquered (1925) the Hejaz, a district in the Arabian Peninsula, he made his two eldest sons, Saud and Fayṣal, his deputies in Najd and Hejaz, respectively. Saud’s ...
- The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica
2 days ago · Saudi Arabia, arid, sparsely populated kingdom of the Middle East. It is ruled by the Saud family, which in the 18th century entered an alliance with the austere and conservative Wahhābī Islamic movement.
2 days ago · Background. Saudi Arabia is the birthplace of Islam and home to Islam's two holiest shrines in Mecca and Medina. The king's official title is the Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques. ABD AL-AZIZ bin Abd al-Rahman AL SAUD (Ibn Saud) founded the modern Saudi state in 1932 after a 30-year campaign to unify most of the Arabian Peninsula.
