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  King Saud and the Issue of Palestine by Fahda bint Saud ibn Abdul Aziz -- 2002
King Saud explained that the Gulf of Aqaba was the gateway to the cities of Makkah and Madinah and that the 33rd paragraph of Article Ten of the 1888 Constantinople Convention was meant to ensure the security of the Muslim holy places and a smooth passage for Muslim pilgrims through the Gulf of Aqaba.
King Saud made it clear that he was unwilling for a debate on any matter affecting the Muslim holy places and travel to Makkah on the sidelines of the current controversy over Israeli navigation in the Gulf of Aqaba.
King Saud’s reign coincided with various events as the tripartite aggression against Egypt and its sequel, the occupation of Arab territory, Israeli expansionist policies, the Cold War and inter-Arab quarrels.
www.alfredlilienthal.com /saudpalestine.htm   (4723 words)

  
  Faisal of Saudi Arabia - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Faisal bin Abdelaziz Al Saud (1906—March 25, 1975) (Arabic: فيصل بن عبدالعزيز آل سعود) was King of Saudi Arabia from 1964 to 1975.
Faisal was born in Riyadh, the fourth son of Ibn Saud.
King Faisal was an avid reader of the Protocols of the Elders of Zion, and financed their wide dissemination throughout the kingdom and the Arab world.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Faisal_of_Saudi_Arabia   (510 words)

  
 Ibn Saud - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
Ibn Saud was born in Riyadh, Arabia, the son of Abd al-Rahman bin Faysal bin Turki Al Saud and.
Ibn Saud is the father of all the Kings of Saudi Arabia that have succeeded him.
In 1964 King Saud was deposed by the and succeeded by King Faisal, another of Ibn Saud's sons.
www.sevenhills.us /project/wikipedia/index.php/Abdul-Aziz_ibn_Saud   (1117 words)

  
 kingdom13
On the demise of King Abdul-Aziz in Rabi al-Awwal 1373[November 1953], the nation pledged its allegiance to the new King Saud Bin Abdul-Aziz Al Saud.
The first public engagement of the King Saud was the convocation of the Council of Ministers on 2nd Rajab 1373 [7th March 1954]., at which a number of new ministers were added to the government.
When the King's health began to deteriorate to such a degree that he was less able to discharge his duties as he saw fit, he decided to pass on the burden of responsibility to his Crown Prince and brother Prince Faisal.
sotaibi.tripod.com /kingdom13.htm   (970 words)

  
 Ibn Saud - Wikinfo
In 1948 Saud participated in the Arab-Israeli war, although the contribution of Saudi Arabia was generally considered token.
Ibn Saud is the father of all the Kings of Saudi Arabia that have suceeded him.
In 1964 King Saud (1902 - 1969) was deposed by the Saudi Council of Ministers and succeeded by King Faisal, another of Ibn Saud's sons.
www.wikinfo.org /wiki.php?title=Abdul-Aziz_ibn_Saud   (2770 words)

  
 faisal
King Faisal Ibn Abdul Aziz Al Saud 906-1975 (1324-1395 H) Faisal Ibn Abdul Aziz Ibn Abdul Rahman Ibn Faisal Al Saud was born in April 1906 (1324 H).
King Faisal participated in politics for 40 years, undertaking various governmental and administrative responsibilities during the reigns of his father, King Abdul Aziz and his brother, King Saud.
King Faisal's policy was based on a number of constants: safeguarding the country's independence and identity, preserving the Arab League's Charter and actively advocating Islamic solidarity.
www.geocities.com /Yosemite/3490/faisal.html   (478 words)

  
 Saudi Leadership
Although the Saudi king is an absolute monarch in the sense that there are no formal, institutionalized checks on his authority, in practice his ability to rule effectively depends on his astuteness in creating and maintaining consensus within his very large, extended family.
The legitimacy of the king's rule is based on the twin pillars of religion and the dynastic history of the Al Saud.
Under the bylaws announced by the Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques King Fahd bin Abdulaziz Al-Saud in September 1993, the Council is responsible for drafting and overseeing the implementation of the internal, external, financial, economic, educational and defense policies, and general affairs of the state.
www.globalsecurity.org /military/world/gulf/sa-leader.htm   (1390 words)

  
 Faisal ibn Abd al-Aziz ibn Saud on Encyclopedia.com   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
(Ĭ´ben abdäl äzēz´ Ĭ´ben säood´ fī´säl), 1905-75, king of Saudi Arabia (1964-75), son of Ibn Saud, brother of Saud.
In 1958 he became premier and foreign minister in the cabinet of his brother, King Saud.
Due to poor health and domestic opposition, King Saud was forced to abdicate (Nov., 1964) by the ruling family in favor of the more popularly approved Faisal.
www.encyclopedia.com /html/F/Faisal-i.asp   (391 words)

  
 King Saud ibn Abd al Aziz Al Saud
The new king's numerous brothers, who believed their nephews were too young and inexperienced to head ministries and major government departments, deeply resented their exclusion from power.
The new King Saud did not prove to be a leader equal to the challenges of the next two decades.
Saud paid huge sums to maintain tribal acquiescence to his rule in return for recruits for an immense palace guard, the White Army, so-called because they wore traditional Arab dress rather than military uniforms.
www.globalsecurity.org /military/world/gulf/saud.htm   (1084 words)

  
 Zahid Tractor & Heavy Machinery Co. Ltd.   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
King Faisal was the third King of Saudi Arabia, reigning from 1964 to 1975.
King Khalid was the fourth King of Saudi Arabia, reigning from 1975 to 1982.
Khalid succeeded to the throne on the death of King Faisal.
www.zahid.com /SaudiArabia/asaud.htm   (796 words)

  
 Saudi Arabia The Royal Family - Flags, Maps, Economy, History, Climate, Natural Resources, Current Issues, ...
Although the Saudi king in 1992 was an absolute monarch in the sense that there were no formal, institutionalized checks on his authority, in practice his ability to rule effectively depended on his astuteness in creating and maintaining consensus within his very large, extended family.
King Faisal's favorite wife had been from the Al Thunayyan, a collateral branch of the Al Saud family that had intermarried with the Al ash Shaykh ulama family.
The patriarch of the Al Kabir clan, Muhammad ibn Saud (born 1909, not to be confused with Muhammad ibn Abd al Aziz Al Saud), was considered one of the senior Al Saud princes and was widely respected for his intimate knowledge of tribal genealogies and oral histories.
www.photius.com /countries/saudi_arabia/government/saudi_arabia_government_the_royal_family.html   (1540 words)

  
 Saudi Delusions   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
The king had fought strenuously to prove that Jewish immigration into Palestine was absolutely illegal and he blamed both the international community and the American administration for the usurpation of Arab territory.
King Saud announced a general mobilization on Oct. 19, 1956, and cut off oil supplies to Britain and France, the first time such a step was taken by Saudi Arabia.
King Saud was determined to defend the rights of his country, even if he had to resort to force.
www.frontpagemag.com /Articles/Printable.asp?ID=12018   (2473 words)

  
 Ain-Al-Yaqeen - October 1, 2004 - Article 1
Abdul Aziz bin Abdul Rahman Al Saud (Ibn Saud) was born in Riyadh in 1880.
But King Fahd's legacy at home is not the buildings, the roads, the ports and airports; it is the people who, through education and social services, have been transformed from simple, generally illiterate, tribesmen or traders into literate individuals capable of holding their own and competing in the modern world.
Of all the projects undertaken by Saudi Arabia during the reign of King Fahd, the expansion of the Holy Mosques in the Holy Cities of Makkah and Madinah stands apart as central to the King's and the Kingdom's purpose.
www.ain-al-yaqeen.com /issues/20041001/feat1en.htm   (5539 words)

  
 Saudi Arabia The King - Flags, Maps, Economy, History, Climate, Natural Resources, Current Issues, International ...
Muhammad ibn Saud and his descendants--the Al Saud-- ardently supported the preacher and his descendants--the Al ash Shaykh--and were determined to introduce a purified Islam, which opponents called Wahhabism (see Glossary), throughout Arabia.
A meeting of senior Al Saud princes, the sons and surviving brothers of Abd al Aziz, acclaimed Crown Prince Khalid the new king.
However, in declaring that successor kings would be chosen from the most suitable of Abd al Aziz's sons and grandsons, Fahd implied that Abd Allah or any future crown prince was not necessarily the presumed heir to the throne.
www.photius.com /countries/saudi_arabia/government/saudi_arabia_government_the_king.html   (1240 words)

  
 Saudi Arabia the King
The legitimacy of the king's rule was based on the twin pillars of religion and the dynastic history of the Al Saud.
The new king's numerous brothers, who believed their nephews were too young and inexperienced to head ministries and major government departments, deeply resented their exclusion from power.
However, in declaring that successor kings would be chosen from the most suitable of Abd al Aziz's sons and grandsons, Fahd implied that Abd Allah or any future crown prince was not necessarily the presumed heir to the throne.
www.country-studies.com /saudi-arabia/the-king.html   (1169 words)

  
 Faisal of Saudi Arabia Summary
Faisal was born in Riyadh in 1904, the son of Abd al-Aziz ibn Saud, founder of Saudi Arabia.
Apparently, King Faisal was an avid reader of the Protocols of the Elders of Zion, and financed their wide dissemination throughout the kingdom and the Arab world.
Saud ibn Faisal al-Saud is the minister of foreign affairs.
www.bookrags.com /Faisal_of_Saudi_Arabia   (1673 words)

  
 ipedia.com: Ibn Saud Article   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
He was born into the House of Saud (also Sa'ud), which had historically maintained dominion over an area of what was then known as Arabia called Nejd.
In 1964 King Saud was deposed by the Saudi Council of Ministers and succeeded by King Faisal, another of Ibn Saud's sons.
According to Saudi law, the King of Saudi Arabia must be a son of Ibn Saud.
www.ipedia.com /ibn_saud.html   (970 words)

  
 frontline: house of saud: a royal family tree | PBS
The modern House of Saud was established in 1932, when Abd al-Aziz ibn Saud, a direct descendent of the 18th-century ruler, established the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia with himself as absolute monarch.
King Abd al-Aziz cemented alliances by marrying a daughter of every tribal chief in his realm, producing 45 legitimate sons and having at least 22 wives.
Before he died, King Abd al-Aziz established a line of succession: Future kings were to be chosen from among his own sons, beginning with the oldest surviving son, Saud, and followed by the second oldest, Faisal.
www.pbs.org /wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/saud/tree   (397 words)

  
 Think-Israel   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
King Ibn Saud was to be brought from Jedda on the destroyer, the USS Murphy, to the meet the President on the Quincy.
Saud and Roosevelt played the game of exchanging evidence of their similarities and the suggestion that they were really twins.
Generalities as to Saud's hopes for countinued Arabian independence and desire for Roosevelt's friendship are there but if this is all there actually was, then the meeting had as its major subject the refusal of the King to help Roosevelt save some Jews.
www.think-israel.org /lipkin.roosevelt.html   (5018 words)

  
 Zahid Tractor & Heavy Machinery Co. Ltd.
King Faisal was the third King of Saudi Arabia, reigning from 1964 to 1975.
King Khalid was the fourth King of Saudi Arabia, reigning from 1975 to 1982.
Khalid succeeded to the throne on the death of King Faisal.
www.zahidgroup.com /SaudiArabia/asaud.htm   (796 words)

  
 Royalty < Saudi Arabia < Middle East < Region < : news feed   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
The Saud clan, which had ruled part of the Arabian peninsula, was expelled from the emirate of Nejd in the 19th century by the rival Rashid dynasty.
King Saud was deposed by his family in 1964 and replaced by another of Ibn Saud's sons, Faisal.
The King of Saudi Arabia is traditionally chosen from among the descendants of Abdul Aziz al-Saud, who founded the kingdom in 1932, by senior members of the Saudi royal family and approved by the Council of Ulamas (Sunni Islamic religious leaders).
schema-root.org /region/middle_east/saudi_arabia/royalty   (2676 words)

  
 frontline: house of saud: a chronology - the house of saud | PBS
frontline: house of saud: a chronology - the house of saud
King Saud and his entourage quietly leave the country, and the ailing monarch spends his last years exiled in Athens, Greece, where he dies in 1969.
King Fahd dismisses seven of the 17 members of the ulama for refusing to denounce the memorandum.
www.pbs.org /wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/saud/cron   (3741 words)

  
 King Faisal Ibn Abdul Aziz Al Saud 1906-1975 (1324-1395 H)
King Faisal participated in politics for 40 years, undertaking various governmental and administrative responsibilities during the reigns of his father, King Abdul Aziz and his brother, King Saud.
King Faisal led the Kingdom's delegation to the 1939 London Conference on the Palestinian issue, known as the Round Table Conference.
King Faisal's policy was based on a number of constants: safeguarding the country's independence and identity, preserving the Arab League's Charter and actively advocating Islamic solidarity.
www.the-saudi.net /al-saud/faisal.htm   (542 words)

  
 The leaders and government of Saudi Arabia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
The House of Saud and thus the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia derives its name from Muhammad ibn Saud, an eighteenth century ruler of Dir`aiyah who formed a crucial religious alliance with a conservative religious reformer, Muhammad ibn Abdul Wahab, from whom the term "Wahabi" is derived.
King Abdul Aziz (known as Ibn Saud) was a tall, imposing figure, a natural leader of men.
was the fourth King of Saudi Arabia, reigning from 1975 to 1982.
www.gerbino-family.com /mygerbinosearch/ASA-05.html   (1501 words)

  
 King Saud Ibn Abdul Aziz Al Saud
Saud Ibn Abdul Aziz Ibn Abdul Rahman Ibn Faisal Al Saud was born in the city of Kuwait in 1902, the same year in which his father King Abdul Aziz recaptured the city of Riyadh from Al Rasheed.
King Saud University, the Kingdom's first, and King Abdul Aziz Military Academy in Riyadh, also the country's first, were established during his era.
King Saud's rule continued until the second of November 1964 (1383 H), when Crown Prince Faisal Ibn Abdul Aziz was appointed King.
www.the-saudi.net /al-saud/saud.htm   (378 words)

  
 House of Saud - TvWiki, the free encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
The House of Saud is also linked with Wahhabism through the marriage of the son of Muhammad ibn Saud with the daughter of Muhammad ibn Abd al Wahhab in 1744.
The history of the House of Saud has been marked by a desire to unify the Arabian Peninsula and to spread what it claims to be a "more pure and simple" but also controversial view of Islam embodied by Wahhabism.
The Head of the House of Saud is the King of Saudi Arabia who serves as Head of State and monarch of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia.
www.tvwiki.tv /wiki/Saud   (534 words)

  
 Saudi Arabia-U.S. Relations - Item of Interest - President Kennedy-King Saud Meeting
With regard to Palestine, the King indicated the importance of implementing the 1947 UN resolutions and thus adhering to the UN charter.
The King reminded the President that Saudi Arabia is a relatively backward country whose native resources are inadequate to cover the growing needs and appetites of a population of some 10 million.
The King said that the reason for his desire to reduce the size of the mission was to economize.
www.saudi-us-relations.org /newsletter2004/saudi-relations-interest-11-19.html   (2428 words)

  
 King Saud bin Abdul Aziz - The Saudi Arabia Information Resource
King Saud was the second King of Saudi Arabia, reigning from 1953 to 1964.
Saud became Crown Prince in 1933 and succeeded to the Saudi throne on the death of his father, King Abdul Aziz (Ibn Saud), in 1953.
During his reign, the King Saud University was opened in Riyadh.
www.saudinf.com /main/b431.htm   (77 words)

  
 Saudi Arabia (10/06)
King Fahd played a major part in bringing about the August 1988 cease-fire between Iraq and Iran and in organizing and strengthening the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC), a group of six Arabian Gulf states dedicated to fostering regional economic cooperation and peaceful development.
King Fahd's action also consolidated the coalition of forces against Iraq and helped define the tone of the operation as a multilateral effort to reestablish the sovereignty and territorial integrity of Kuwait.
The Basic Law adopted in 1992 declared that Saudi Arabia is a monarchy ruled by the sons and grandsons of King Abd Al Aziz Al Saud, and that the Holy Qur'an is the constitution of the country, which is governed on the basis of Islamic law (Shari'a).
www.state.gov /r/pa/ei/bgn/3584.htm   (5039 words)

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