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| | Continuity and Change: Twin Attributes of 250 Years of Saudi Rule |
 | | During that meeting, Emir Muhammad Bin Saud, the ruler of Dariyah and the central Najd region of the peninsula, and Sheikh Muhammad Bin Abdul Wahhab, a Muslim scholar and reformer, reached a compact to dedicate their lives to restoring the pure teachings of Islam to the Muslim community. |
 | | Within forty years of that fateful meeting, Muhammad Bin Saud and his son and successor, Abdul Aziz, managed to garner the support of numerous tribes attracted to the rulers of Dariyah by the purity of Islam they upheld and the simplicity of their ruling style. |
 | | Muhammad Almana, a Saudi Arabian who acted as the court interpreter from 1926 through 1935 and spent the entire period with the King, later wrote an insightful account of the great man and his life. |
| www.saudiembassy.net /Publications/MagFall96/continuity.htm (3056 words) |
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