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Ibn Saud
Saudi king and religious leader
Also known as: ʿAbd al-ʿAzīz ibn ʿAbd al-Raḥmān ibn Fayṣal ibn Turkī ʿAbd Allāh ibn Muḥammad Āl Saʿūd, Ibn Saʿūd
Ibn Saud
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History & Society
- Also spelled:
- Ibn Saʿūd
- In full:
- ʿAbd al-ʿAzīz ibn ʿAbd al-Raḥmān ibn Fayṣal ibn Turkī ʿAbd Allāh ibn Muḥammad Āl Saʿūd
- Died:
- November 9, 1953, Al-Ṭāʾif, Saudi Arabia
- Title / Office:
- king (1932-1953), Saudi Arabia
- Founder:
- Ikhwān
- Notable Family Members:
- son Fayṣal
- son Fahd
- son ʿAbd Allāh
- son Saud
Ibn Saud (born c. 1880, Riyadh, Arabia—died November 9, 1953, Al-Ṭāʾif, Saudi Arabia) was a tribal and Muslim religious leader who formed the modern state of Saudi Arabia and initiated the exploitation of its oil. The Sauds ruled much of Arabia from 1780 to 1880, but, while Ibn Saud was still an infant, his family, driven out by their rivals, the Rashīds, became penniless exiles in Kuwait. In 1901 Ibn Saud, then 21, set out from Kuwait with 40 camel men in a bold attempt to regain his family’s lands. Reaching their old family capital, Riyadh, the little group slipped ...(100 of 992 words)