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  Ibn Saud of Saudi Arabia - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Ibn Sa'ūd was born in Riyadh, Arabia, the son of Abd al-Rahman bin Faysal bin Turki Al Saud and Sara bint Ahmad al-Kabir Sudayri.
Ibn Saud is the father of all the Kings of Saudi Arabia that have succeeded him.
In 1964 King Saud was deposed by the Saudi Council of Ministers and succeeded by King Faisal, another of Ibn Saud's sons.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Ibn_Saud   (1284 words)

  
 Ibn
Abdallah ibn Mohammed Abdallah ibn Mohammed was the seventh sultan of 912.
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Ibn Umar Ibn Umar was the son of the 2nd Umar ibn Khattab.
www.brainyencyclopedia.com /topics/ibn.html   (973 words)

  
 Welcome to Web home of " Mohammed Abdul " from Jeddah { Kingdom of Saudi Arabia ! }   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
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.
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.
The House of Saud in Commerce by Sharaf Sabri.
www.marhabaksa.faithweb.com /cgovern.html   (3030 words)

  
 Muslims, the Saud Family and Oil
Abd al-Aziz ibn Saud, (often known as Ibn Saud) rode from the desert with 60 brothers and cousins and restored Saud family rule at Riyadh.
Ibn Saud won the approval of the sedate religious authorites, the ulama (considered moral authorities) who were content to ally themselves with ibn Saud.
In 1932 ibn Saud declared himself king and gave his name to the regions in Arabia that he had unified, which were named Saudi Arabia.
www.fsmitha.com /h2/ch17arab.html   (1457 words)

  
 The Legacy Of Oil
After defeating the Rashids, Ibn Saud set forth on a series of conquests that were to unite the warring tribes and squabbling sects of the Arabian Peninsula into a single nation, the world’s twelfth largest, which in 1932 he declared to be the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia with himself as king.
Ibn Saud solidified his dynasty by marrying at least 120 women from tribes throughout the peninsula, but kept within Koranic restraints by never maintaining more than four wives at a time.
The House of Saud and the gulf dynasties will have to fine tune their arcane and burdensome decision-making processes that straddle the line between tradition and modernization and that have given money but not power to the burgeoning middle class.
www.aliciapatterson.org /APF0904/Lamb/Lamb.html   (3339 words)

  
 Islam & Jihad
Mohammed ibn Abdallah ibn abd al-Muttalib was born in the year 570 in the city of Mecca in southwestern Arabia, to a recently widowed woman of good family.
Mohammed had the stone placed on a cloak, called for one man from each of the clans to take up a corner and together lift the stone into position.
In 1703, Mohammed Ibn Adb al-Wahab, the founder of Wahabism was born the son of a judge, in a little village in Najd in central Arabia.
www.kuufnh.org /jihad.htm   (3331 words)

  
 Chomsky interview 5
Regardless of whether he gave the order or not, what is indisputable is that the bulk of Osama Bin Laden's real cadres (as opposed to footsoldiers) are located in Egypt or Saudi Arabia, the two principal allies of the United States in the region barring Israel.
He was a close friend of the Saudi boss of Intelligence, Prince Turki bin Faisal al Saud, who was dismissed last month after his failure to curb attacks on US personnel in Riyadh.
Ibn Saud, the founder of the dynasty that rules Saudi Arabia today, utilised Wahhab's revivalist fervour to inculcate a sense of discipline in the tribes before hurling them into battle against the Ottoman Empire.
www.zmag.org /alisaudi.htm   (1643 words)

  
 [The Harborsite] The Saudi Connection   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
Sheikh Mohammed Ibn Abdul Wahhab, the inspirer of this sect, was an 18th century peasant who became tired of tending date palms and grazing cattle and began to preach locally, calling for a return to the pure beliefs of the seventh century.
He opposed the excessive veneration of the Prophet Mohammed, denounced the worship of holy places and shrines and stressed the 'unity of one God'.
Ten years earlier Ibn Musaid's brother Prince Khalid, a fervent Wahhabite, had demonstrated in public against the entry of television into the kingdom.
grunt.space.swri.edu /pipermail/harborsite/2001-September/000049.html   (2920 words)

  
 History of Riyadh - The Capital City Of Saudi Arabia
The home base of the tribe was (and remains) Ad-Diriyah, a walled town to the north-west founded 500 years ago, where in the mid-eighteenth century an alliance was formed between Mohammed Ibn Saud and a muslim cleric Mohammed Ibn Abdul-Wahab, who advocated a return to a "pure" form of Islam.
However, this was a time of colonialism and the Turkish Ottoman Empire resented Ibn Saud’s power and control over the holy cities of Makkah and Medinah.
A military force was sent from Egypt in 1815, which drove the Saudis out of the Hejaz and by 1819 had arrived at the gates of Diriyah.
www.riyadhvision.com /english/historyofriaydh.htm   (640 words)

  
 PREVIEW: Rewriting the Koran
The stated goal of the visit is to show the 15 guests how Americans handle various issues of public policy and civil society, including state and federal responsibilities in education, the accreditation, financing, and curriculum of public and private schools, the academic study of religions including Islam, religious diversity, and interfaith activities.
And Mohned Mohamed al-Shehri (who was on the plane that struck the South Tower) was recruited, according to Saudi dissident sources, to the bin Laden network directly from the university.
The same bigotry is integral to the creed taught at the Imam Mohammed Ibn-Saud Islamic University and spread around the world by preachers and missionaries funded by the Saudi royal family.
www.weeklystandard.com /Utilities/printer_preview.asp?idArticle=4653&R=9FD9CA1D   (1334 words)

  
 Jihad devolved from ancient religious decrees   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
The House of Saud was momentarily paralyzed; they couldn't send security forces into the most sacred site in all of Islam with orders to shoot it out with the jihadists in the tunnels around the mosque.
Al-Wahhab, allied with a local sheik, Mohammed ibn Saud, fought to restore a strict interpretation of the faith.
The descendants of al-Wahhbab and Ibn Saud continued this close alliance of religious zeal and territorial conquest — and forced the rest of the Arabian peninsula to comply.
www.hvk.org /articles/0103/55.html   (1496 words)

  
 The House of Saud's Eternal Dilemma
Descendants of former US president Franklin D Roosevelt and Saudi Arabia's first king, Ibn Saud, celebrated this month in Miami the 60th anniversary of the first Saudi-US summit at the Suez Canal's Great Bitter Lake, where the foundations were laid for a "special relationship" between the two countries based on an oil-for-security alliance.
Pulling in one direction was the internal demands of the Wahhabis, already given control by Ibn Saud of the kingdom's schools, mosques, religious police, media and, ultimately, the government itself.
The minister al-Obaid replaced, Mohammed al-Rasheed, was a committed reformer who managed to achieve some successes, despite the fact that all the odds were heavily stacked against him.
www.frontpagemag.com /Articles/Printable.asp?ID=17221   (1541 words)

  
 First Saudi State   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
The First Saudi State was established in the year 1744 (1157 H.) when the Wahhabi leader Sheikh Mohammed Ibn Abdul Wahab settled in Diriyah and Prince Mohammed Ibn Saud agreed to support and espouse his cause, with a view to cleansing the Islamic faith from distortions.
The House of Saud with other allies rose to become the dominat state in Arabia controlling most of the Najd, but not either coast.
Imam Abdul Aziz Ibn Mohammed Ibn Saud 1765 - 1803 (1179 - 1218 H)
www.sciencedaily.com /encyclopedia/first_saudi_state   (240 words)

  
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\par After defeating the Rashids, Ibn Saud set forth on a series of conquests that were to unite the warring tribes and squabbling sects of the Arabian Peninsula into a single nation, the world\rquote s twelfth largest, which in 1932 he declared to be the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia with himself as king.
Politically the House of Saud does not seem a probable victim for the type of internally motivated, venge ful extremism that swept aside the Pahlavis in Iran, as long as it can continue to address the wants of the military, the }{\i ulema}{ (religious establishment) and the middle class.
The House of Saud and the gulf dynasties will have to fine tune the i r arcane and burdensome decision-making processes that straddle the line between tradition and modernization and that have given money but not power to the burgeoning middle class.
www.aliciapatterson.org /APF0904/Lamb/Lamb.rtf   (3522 words)

  
 Muhammad bin Saud   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
Wahhab came to Saud for protection, and it was granted to him.
They formed an alliance, and this was formalized by the wedding of Ibn Saud's son to Abdul Wahhab's daugther.
Thus, Muhammad bin Saud is considered the founder of the First Saudi State.
www.sciencedaily.com /encyclopedia/muhammad_bin_saud   (272 words)

  
 A General History of the Near East, Chapter 14
Mohammed Ali then ruthlessly massacred his Mameluke rivals, ending their long domination over Egypt, and in 1807 easily defeated a British expedition that had been unwisely sent to restore Mameluke power.
In 1901 a twenty-year-old warrior, Abdul-Aziz ibn Saud II, assumed leadership of the Wahhabi cause.
The most important of these "guests" was Hussein ibn Ali, a 37th-generation descendant of Mohammed and a member of the Hashemite family, whose members had long held the office of Sharif of Mecca.
xenohistorian.faithweb.com /neareast/ne14.html   (17759 words)

  
 frontline: house of saud: analysis: the most pivotal issue | PBS
That was in the 18th century when the clergy or the imam or sheikh -- the religious reformer Sheikh Mohammad ibn Wahhab -- had an alliance with Imam Mohammad ibn Saud, the grandfather of the royal family.
And together they apparently divided [the state so] the Sauds would be the temporal emirs [and] the members of the Abdullah Haab family, the Al Sheik family, would be the religious people.
With that combination, the Sauds were able to expand into all of Negd and into eventually all of the peninsula.
www.pbs.org /wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/saud/themes/pivotal.html   (3901 words)

  
 OpinionJournal - Extra
And the House of Saud was spared an "international incident." That normally staid bureaucrats engaged in incredible acrobatics to bail out three guys who never should have been in the United States in the first place says a great deal about State's "special relationship" with the Saudis.
While official policy was coziness with the House of Saud and Foggy Bottom was dominated by Arabists, there was some degree of tension, with many officials uncomfortable with the radical Wahhabi clerics who dominate everyday life in Saudi Arabia.
Mohammed ibn Saud, ancestor to the current king, struck a pact with Mohammed ibn Abd al-Wahhab some 250 years ago, whereby Wahhab's fundamentalist clerics and followers would support the Saud family, in exchange for the royal family's generous financial support of Wahhabism, Wahhab's militant version of Sunni Islam.
www.opinionjournal.com /extra?id=110004154   (4169 words)

  
 Ain-Al-Yaqeen - May 9, 2003 - Article 9
Prince Turki Ibn Mohammed Ibn Saud Al-Kabeer, Assistant Under Secretary for Political Affairs and Head of International Organization Department at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, addressed the 59th regular session of the Human Rights Commission in Geneva.
Prince Turki Ibn Mohammed Ibn Saud Al-Kabeer ceased the opportunity to welcome the Human Rights High Commissioner for participating for the first time in the work of the Commission and extended his wishes of success to the High Commissioner.
He said while we praise the efforts of the United Nations we wish to emphasize its historical role as the cornerstone of international legitimacy in time of crisis, because of this we call on the United Nations to play its role in international relations according to the clauses of its charter.
www.ain-al-yaqeen.com /issues/20030509/feat9en.htm   (2239 words)

  
 House Of Bush, house of Saud...
On the one hand, the House of Saud was an Islamic theocracy whose power grew out of the royal family's alliance with Wahhabi fundamentalism, a strident and puritanical Islamic sect that provided a fertile breeding ground for a global network of terrorists urging a violent jihad against the United States.
The House of Saud includes members of the Saudi royal family, companies controlled by them and members of the Saudi merchant elite such as the bin Laden and bin Mahfouz families, whose fortunes are closely tied to the royal family.
Many members of the House of Saud have directed their largesse to charities important to powerful Americans, including a $23 million donation to the University of Arkansas soon after Bill Clinton became president.
blogs.it /0100206/stories/2004/03/15/houseOfBushHouseOfSaud.html   (18498 words)

  
 Obsidian Wings: The War on Wahhabism, Continued
Worse, the House of Saud is inextricably intertwined with Wahhabi extremists, and the government of Saudi Arabia is directly responsible for the worldwide spread of this hardline and unforgiving belief system.
Until late 2003, the institute was an official adjunct campus of the Imam Mohammed Ibn-Saud Islamic University in Riyadh, part of Saudi Arabia’s state-run university system, funded and controlled by the Saudi Ministry of Education.
We need to put the screws on the House of Saud through constructive engagment and, if progress is not made, begin a process of dissociation from this corrupt government.
obsidianwings.blogs.com /obsidian_wings/2005/02/the_war_on_wahh.html   (11103 words)

  
 Saudi Strategies - The Al-Saud dynasty   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
The Al-Saud dynasty, the sons of Ibn Saud, and principal sons of principal princes
The third Saudi state began in 1902 when Ibn Saud seized control of Riyadh.
Saud, born 1950, deputy head of external intelligence
www.saudistrategies.com /alsaud.html   (268 words)

  
 Saudi Arabia: Almarai to Go Public by End of the Year - Zawya.com | Middle East Business News   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
This was announced by Prince Sultan ibn Mohammed ibn Saud Al-Kabir, Almarai's chairman and founder of the company, who said the Initial Public Offering (IPO), to be managed by the HSBC Group and the Saudi British Bank, would enable Saudi citizens to share in the company's prosperity and participate in its future plans.
Founded in 1976, Almarai's current shareholders include Prince Sultan ibn Mohammed ibn Saud Al-Kabir (54.13 percent), Savola Co. (40.33 percent), Abdul Aziz Al-Muhanna (3.82 percent).
Almarai's decision to go public comes on the heels of Alujain Corporation which has announced the successful completion of a SR346 million capital increase, which was oversubscribed 3.5 times with a total cash collection of SR1.2 billion.
www.zawya.com /story.cfm?id=ZAWYA20040719052623   (578 words)

  
 [No title]   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
While Saudi police identified the gunman killed Wednesday as Abdullah Mohammed Rashid al-Rashud, number 22 on the interior ministry most-wanted list, Riyadh's deputy governor denied Rashud had been killed, but said the extremist gunned down was equally dangerous and sought after.
The gunbattle, which came a week after the authorities declared that Al-Qaeda supporters who repent would be exonerated, killed Rashud, "one of the most dangerous suspects in the kingdom, who is considered an ideologue of the Al-Qaeda group in Saudi Arabia," police said soon after the shootout.
The English-language Arab News reported Thursday that he had taught at the scientific institute of Imam Mohammed Ibn Saud University in the capital, a post he had given up before disappearing several years ago.
www.middle-east-online.com /english?id=10500=10500&format=0   (680 words)

  
 auteur details   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
His magnum opus, according to Wohaibi, was the "Encyclopedia of Muslim Minorities" brought out by Imam Mohammed ibn Saud Islamic University in Riyadh.
Johani did his BA in English from Riyadh University (presently King Saud University) in 1972 and MA in English literature from Indiana University in Bloomington in 1977.
A workaholic, putting in 10 to 12 hours a day, he rose from a modest background to become the chief of WAMY which has its presence in 60 countries around the world.
www.islam-boeken.nl /auteur_details.php?artist_id=35   (649 words)

  
 MER - The Day FDR Met Ibn Saud
As they watched in fascination, the man in the throne was hoisted aloft in a bosun's chair and transferred from the Murphy to the Quincy, where he shuffled forward and grasped the president's hand in a firm grip.
Thus began the improbable meeting between Roosevelt and the desert potentate with whom of all the world's leaders he had the least in common, King Abdul Aziz ibn Saud of Saudi Arabia.
In five intense hours they would bind together the destinies of their two countries and shape the course of events in the Middle East for decades to come.
www.middleeast.org /launch/redirect.cgi?a=41&num=215   (864 words)

  
 Islamica Community Forums - Jihad devolved from ancient religious decrees   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
I hope that the recent events will spur Muslims to consider the implications for the wider ethos in which we understand our religion of the shift which we have witnessed over the past twenty years or so away from accommodationist and tolerant forms of Islam, and towards narrowmindedness.
Not just because we need to reassure our neighbours, but also because we need to reassure those very many born Muslims who are made unsure about their attachment to Islam by events such as this that they can belong to the religion without being harsh and narrow-minded.
In Afghanistan, too, there are now Christians for the first time ever, and I have heard from one ex-Taliban member that this is because of the extremism with which Islam is imposed on the people.
www.islamicaweb.com /archive/t-7572   (2027 words)

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