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Abdul al aziz ibn saud biography During his rule, from to , much of the Arabian peninsula developed from a group of desert sheikhdoms to a politically unified kingdom with new wealth from oil fields. Ibn Saud was born in Riyadh in the central Arabian principality of Nejd. He escaped with his father, Abd al-Rahman, to exile in Kuwait in , when the rival Rashidi family seized Saudi lands. In the young Ibn Saud with a small number of warriors recaptured Riyadh in a daring raid. Although the modern history of Arabia dates from the Saudi reoccupation of Riyadh, there was much history and tradition in the young sheikh's policy.

Ibn Saud

Abdulaziz bin Abdul Rahman Al Saud[1] (Arabic: عَبْدُ الْعَزِيزِ آلُ سَعُودٍ) (15 January [2] – 9 November ), was the founder and first monarch of Saudi Arabia.[3] He was usually known in the Arab world as Abdulaziz[4] and known outside it as Ibn Saud.[5]

He reconquered his family's ancestral home city of Riyadh in This started 30 years which made him the ruler of nearly all of central Arabia.

He consolidated his control over the Najd in , then conquered the Hijaz in He united his dominions into the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia in As King, he presided over the discovery of petroleum in Saudi Arabia in and the beginning of large-scale oil production after World War II. He fathered many children, including 45 sons.[6] He died of a heart attack.

All the later kings of Saudi Arabia have been his children.

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  1. ↑Arabic: عَبْدُ الْعَزِيزِ آلُ سَعُودٍ, ‘Abd al-‘Azīz ibn ‘Abd ar-Raḥman Āl Sa‘ūd
  2. ↑His birthday is generally accepted as , although a few sources give it as According to British author Robert Lacey's book The Kingdom, a leading Saudi historian found records that show Ibn Saud in greeting an important tribal delegation.

    The historian reasoned that a nine or ten-year-old child (as given by the birth date) would have been too young to be allowed to greet such a delegation, while an adolescent of 14 or 15 (as given by the date) would likely have been allowed.

    Abdul al aziz ibn saud biography in urdu We'll assume you're ok with this, but you can opt-out if you wish. A group of contemporary scholars were assembled to teach him the fundamentals of Islam. He soon began to show an impressive array of qualities and talents, including shrewdness, courage, farsightedness and horsemanship. He was able to grasp both current and historical events. In ten years there, he acquired the necessary qualities of leadership and statesmanship.

    When Lacey interviewed one of Ibn Saud's sons before writing the book, the son recalled that his father often laughed at records showing his birth date to be Ibn Saud's response to such records was told as "I swallowed four years of my life".

  3. ↑Current Biography , pp. –34
  4. ↑Lacey, Robert (). The Kingdom. New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich.

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  5. ↑Ibn Saud, meaning son of Saud, was a sort of title borne by previous heads of the House of Saud, similar to a Scottishclan chief's title of "the MacGregor" or "the MacDougall".

    King ibn saud biography He had ruled parts of the kingdom since , having previously been Emir , Sultan , and King of Nejd , and King of Hejaz. The family were exiled from their residence in the city of Riyadh in Ibn Saud reconquered Riyadh in , starting three decades of conquests that made him the ruler of nearly all of central and north Arabia. He consolidated his control over the Nejd in , then conquered the Hejaz in He extended his dominions into what later became the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia in

    When used without comment it refers solely to Abdul-Aziz, although prior to the capture of Riyadh in it referred to his father, Abdul Rahman (Lacey , pp.&#;15, 65).

  6. ↑"King Abdul Aziz family tree". Geocities. Retrieved 23 August
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