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Ibn Saud (seated) with his sons Prince Faisal (left) and Prince Saud in the early 1950s Ibn Saud (seated left) with his brother-in-law Mubarak Al Sabah [67] in Kuwait, 1910 Ibn Saud was very tall for a Saudi man of his time, [ 68 ] his height reported as between 1.85 (6 ft 1 in) [ 69 ] [ 70 ] and 1.88 (6 ft 2 in). [ 71 ]
Muhammad bin Saud Al Muqrin Al Saud (Arabic: محمد بن سعود آل مقرن, romanized: Muḥammad bin Suʿūd Āl Muqrin; 1687–1765), also known as Ibn Saud, was the emir of Diriyah and is considered the founder of the First Saudi State and the Saud dynasty, named after his father, Saud bin Muhammad Al Muqrin. [1]
Saud's other sons included Mishari, Turki, Nasser and Saad. [25] His youngest son, Khalid, ruled the Emirate of Nejd or the Second Saudi State from 1838 to 1841 with the support of the Ottomans. [26] [27] Three of Saud's sons were killed in the siege of Diriyah by Ibrahim Pasha, who also arrested Saud's successor, Abdullah bin Saud. [28]
Percy Cox replaced William Shakespear as the United Kingdom's liaison to Ibn Saud. He held this position until 1922 when he facilitated the signing of the Treaty of Darin. John Philby was sent by the British to encourage Ibn Saud's participation in the war effort and the start of an offensive.
Ibn Sa'd was born in 784/785 CE (168 AH) [5] and died on 16 February 845 CE (230 AH). [5] Ibn Sa'd was from Basra, [2] but lived mostly in Baghdad, hence the nisba al-Basri and al-Baghdadi respectively. He is said to have died at the age of 62 in Baghdad and was buried in the cemetery of the Syrian gate. [6]
He Al-Qahtani received a doctorate from the College of the Fundamentals of Religion of the Imam Mohammad Ibn Saud Islamic University in Riyadh, which is considered to be a Salafi/Sunni educational institution. [2] Later, he served as the imam of mosque in Saudi Arabia.
The next prince in line had actually been Prince Muhammad, but he had relinquished his claim to the throne in favor of Khalid, his only full brother. Khalid died of a heart attack in 1982, and was succeeded by Fahd, the eldest of the powerful "Sudairi Seven", so-called because they were all sons of Ibn Saud by his wife Hassa Al Sudairi.
Abdulaziz bin Muhammad Al Saud (Arabic: عبد العزيز بن محمد آل سعود ʿAbd al ʿAzīz bin Muḥammad Āl Suʿūd; 1720–1803) [1] was the second ruler of the Emirate of Diriyah. He was the eldest son of Muhammad bin Saud [2] and the son-in-law of Muhammad bin Abdul Wahhab. Abdulaziz ruled the Emirate from 1765 until 1803.