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Abdul Rahman ibn Abdul Aziz al-Sudais (Arabic: عَبْدُ ٱلرَّحْمَٰنِ بْنُ عَبْدِ ٱلْعَزِيزِ ٱلسُّدَيْسِ, romanized: ʻAbd ar-Raḥman ibn ʻAbd al-ʻAziz as-Sudais), better known as al-Sudais, [1] is the Chief Imam of the Grand Mosque, Masjid al-Haram in Makkah, Saudi Arabia; the President of the General Presidency for the Affairs of the Two Holy ...
Muhammad bin Saud Al Muqrin. In this Arabic name, the surname is Al Muqrin. Muhammad bin Saud Al Muqrin (Arabic: محمد بن سعود آل مقرن, romanized:Muḥammad bin Suʿūd Āl Muqrin; 1687–1765), also known as Ibn Saud, was the emir of Diriyah and is considered the founder of the First Saudi State and the Saud dynasty, which are ...
Ibn Saud was the son of Abdul Rahman bin Faisal, Emir of Nejd, and Sara bint Ahmed Al Sudairi. The family were exiled from their residence in the city of Riyadh in 1890. Ibn Saud reconquered Riyadh in 1902, starting three decades of conquests that made him the ruler of nearly all of central and north Arabia.
Islam is the state religion of Saudi Arabia. The kingdom is called the "home of Islam"; it was the birthplace of the Islamic prophet Muhammad, who united and ruled the Arabian Peninsula. [1] It is the location of the cities of Mecca and Medina, where Prophet Muhammad lived and died, and are now the two holiest cities of Islam.
Toponymic (Nisba) at-Tamīmī [ 11 ] Muḥammad ibn ʿAbd al-Wahhāb ibn Sulaymān al-Tamīmī[ Note 1 ] (1703–1792) was a Sunni Muslim scholar, theologian, preacher, activist, [ 12 ] religious leader, [ 9 ] jurist, [ 13 ] and reformer, [ 14 ] who was from Najd in central Arabia and is considered as the eponymous founder of the Wahhabi ...
Saud Al-Shuraim. Saud ibn Ibrahim ibn Muhammad al-Shuraim (Arabic: سعود بن ابراهيم بن محمد الشريم); born 19 January 1966 [1]) is a Quranic reciter who was one of the prayer leaders and Friday preachers at the Grand Mosque Masjid al-Haram in Makkah. He also holds a Ph.D degree in Sharia (Islamic studies) at the Umm al ...
This imam in occultation is the twelfth imam, Muhammad, son of the eleventh imam, Hasan al-Askari. [50] According to the Twelvers, the Mahdi was born in Samarra around 868, [51] though his birth was kept hidden from the public. [31] He lived under his father's care until 874 when the latter was killed by the Abbasids. [52]
t. e. Imam Mohammad Ibn Saud Islamic University (IMSIU) (Arabic: جامعة الإمام محمد بن سعود الإسلامية), commonly known as Al-Imam University (IMAMU) (Arabic: إمامو), is a public university in the sub-municipality of Shemal in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. It was founded in 1950 as an Islamic seminary by Muhammad ibn ...