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House of Saud. The House of Al Saud (Arabic: آل سُعُود, romanized: ʾĀl Suʿūd IPA: [ʔaːl sʊʕuːd]) is the ruling royal family of Saudi Arabia. It is composed of the descendants of Muhammad bin Saud, founder of the Emirate of Diriyah, known as the First Saudi State (1727–1818), and his brothers, though the ruling faction of the ...
King of Saudi Arabia r. 1932–1953: Saud 1902–1969 King of Saudi Arabia r. 1953–1964: Faisal 1906–1975 King of Saudi Arabia r. 1964–1975: Khalid 1913–1982 King of Saudi Arabia r. 1975–1982: Fahd 1920, 1921, or 1923–2005 King of Saudi Arabia r. 1982–2005: Abdullah 1924–2015 King of Saudi Arabia r. 2005–2015: Salman 1935–1915
t. e. The king of Saudi Arabia, officially the King of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia (Arabic: ملك المملكة العربية السعودية), is the monarch and head of state / government of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia who holds absolute power. He is the head of the Saudi Arabian royal family, the House of Saud. [1] The king is the ...
Faisal bin Abdulaziz was born in Riyadh on 14 April 1906. [6][7] He was the third son of Abdulaziz bin Abdulrahman, then Emir of Nejd; Faisal was the first of his father's sons who was born in Riyadh. [8][9] His mother was Tarfa bint Abdullah Al Sheikh, [10] whom Abdulaziz had married in 1902 after capturing Riyadh.
13 June 1982 (death by natural causes) Son of King Abdulaziz and Al Jawhara bint Musaed bin Jiluwi Al Saud. Saud. Fahd of Saudi Arabia. فهد بن عبد العزيز آل سعود. 16 March 1920 – 1 August 2005 (aged 85) 13 June 1982 (aged 62) 1 August 2005 (death by natural causes) Son of King Abdulaziz and Hussa bint Ahmed Al Sudairi.
The order of succession to the Saudi Arabian throne is determined by, and within, the House of Saud.Every King of Saudi Arabia, upon his death, has been succeeded by the crown prince, with a new crown prince then being appointed according to a loose form of agnatic seniority among the sons of Ibn Saud, though various members of the family have been bypassed for various reasons.
Salman's major initiatives as king include the Saudi intervention in the Yemeni Civil War, Saudi Vision 2030, and a 2017 decree allowing Saudi women to drive. His seventh son, Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman , is considered the de facto ruler of Saudi Arabia due to the King's poor health and Mohammed's own political maneuvering. [ 2 ]
He was the second son of King Abdulaziz, the founder of Saudi Arabia. Saud was the second son of King Abdulaziz and Wadha bint Muhammad Al Orair. The death of Saud's elder brother, Prince Turki, in 1919 poised Saud to become his father's successor; King Abdulaziz appointed him as the crown prince of Saudi Arabia in 1933.