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Ibn Saud was the son of Abdul Rahman bin Faisal, Emir of Nejd, and Sara bint Ahmed Al Sudairi. The family were exiled from their residence in the city of Riyadh in 1890. Ibn Saud reconquered Riyadh in 1902, starting three decades of conquests that made him the ruler of nearly all of central and north Arabia.
Mar 14, 2024 · Ibn Saud, tribal and Muslim religious leader who formed the modern state of Saudi Arabia and initiated the exploitation of its oil. His family was driven out of Arabia when he was an infant and lived as penniless exiles in Kuwait until he began his conquest of Arabia in 1902.
Abdulaziz bin Abdul Rahman Al Saud, known in the West as Ibn Saud, was an Arab political and religious leader who founded Saudi Arabia – the third Saudi state – and reigned as its first king from 23 September 1932 until his death in 1953. He had ruled parts of the kingdom since 1902, having previously been Emir, Sultan, and King of Nejd, and King of Hejaz.
Ibn Saud. Ibn Saʿūd , in full ʿAbd al-ʿAzīz ibn ʿAbd al-Raḥmān ibn Fayṣal Āl Saʿūd, (born c. 1880, Riyadh, Arabian Peninsula—died Nov. 9, 1953, Al-Ṭāʾif, Saud.Ar.), Founder of modern-day Saudi Arabia. Though the Saʿūd dynasty had ruled much of Arabia from 1780 to 1880, in Ibn Saʿūd’s infancy the family was forced out ...
Aug 24, 2016 · Ibn Saud (Abd al-Aziz ibn Saud) (Ĭ´bən säōōd´), c.1880–1953, founder of Saudi Arabia and its first king. His family, with its regular seat at Riyadh in the Nejd, were the traditional leaders of the ultraorthodox Wahhabi movement in Islam. During Ibn Saud's youth the Saud family was in exile in Kuwait. In 1902 he and a small party of ...
Apr 2, 2024 · Āl Saʿūd (“House of Saʿūd”) Ibn Saud. Ibn Saud (ʿAbd al-ʿAzīz II), founder of the third Saudi kingdom and the country of Saudi Arabia. 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 ...
Jul 16, 2023 · Ibn Saud had turned for economic and political advice to Harry St. John Philby, a former British civil servant who had converted to Islam and had become an anti-imperialist. Philby introduced Ibn Saud to an American millionaire named Charles Crane who had a deep knowledge and enthusiasm for the Middle East.
