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Faisal II (Arabic: الملك فيصل الثاني, romanized: al-Malik Fayṣal al-thānī; 2 May 1935 – 14 July 1958) was the last King of Iraq. He reigned from 4 April 1939 until July 1958, when he was killed during the 14 July Revolution .
Shortly after the final day of battle, Mohammed bin Thani sent a letter to Faisal's camp requesting peace and agreeing to be his subject, to which Faisal obliged. [16] On 8 June, Qatari forces assumed control of Burj Al-Maah, a watchtower guarding Doha's main water source, close to Al Bidda Fort where the forces of Ali bin Khalifa were stationed.
His father was Prince Musa'id bin Abdulaziz, son of the founder of Saudi Arabia and half-brother to all the six Saudi kings, including King Faisal, who have succeeded the founder. Faisal bin Musa'id's mother was Watfa, a daughter of Muhammad bin Talāl, the 12th and last Rashidi emir. Musa'id and Watfa were divorced when Faisal was still young.
This page is subject to the extended confirmed restriction related to the Arab-Israeli conflict. Signature page of the agreement, showing Faisal's caveat in Arabic, and T. E. Lawrence's appended translation of the caveat (Faisal could not read or write English). The Faisal–Weizmann agreement was signed by Emir Faisal, the third son of Hussein ibn Ali al-Hashimi, King of the short-lived ...
Faisal had great tolerance for Shi'i Muslims and was a component of inter-faith. [33] Faisal's main link with the community was the Sayyid Muhammad al-Sadr, who was one of the only people who could enter the king's prescience without further notice. [34] Faisal always wanted to remind Shi'i Muslims of his linage to Ali.
King Abdulaziz, grandfather of Faisal. Prince Faisal was born in Riyadh in 1918. [3] He was the only son of Prince Turki I, [3] and his mother was Nora bint Obaid Al Rasheed. [4] Faisal's father was the eldest son of Abdulaziz, then Sultan of Nejd. Prince Turki died from Spanish flu in late 1919, a few months before Prince Faisal was born. [3]
In 1919, following the collapse of the Ottoman Empire, 14-year-old Faisal is sent by his father, Emir Abdulaziz, on a high-stakes diplomatic mission to London to secure the formation of what was to become the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia.
Faisal was the third son of King Abdulaziz, the founder of modern Saudi Arabia. Faisal was born in Riyadh to Abdulaziz, then Emir of Nejd, [note 1] and Tarfa bint Abdullah Al Sheikh. Faisal's mother was from the Al ash-Sheikh family, which has produced many prominent Saudi religious leaders. Faisal emerged as an influential political figure ...