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Sultan bin Abdulaziz Al Saud (c. 5 January 1928 – 22 October 2011) (Arabic: سلطان بن عبدالعزيز آل سعود, Sulṭān ibn ʿAbdulʿazīz Āl Suʿūd), called The generous Sultan (سلطان الخير, Sulṭan al Khair) in Saudi Arabia, [1] was the Saudi defense minister from 1963 to 2011 and the Crown Prince of Saudi Arabia from 2005 until his death in October 2011.
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Sattam bin Abdulaziz Al Saud – King Abdulaziz Medal (First Class) [13] Khalid bin Bandar Al Saud (2011) [14] Sultan bin Abdulaziz Al Saud – King Abdulaziz Medal (First Class; 2011) [15] Turki bin Nasser Al Saud – King Abdulaziz Medal (First Class) [16] Al Waleed bin Talal Al Saud – King Abdulaziz Medal (First Class; 2002) [17]
The Saudi emir, Abdullah bin Saud, was later executed in Constantinople. [18] The Al Saud survived in exile and went on to found the Second Saudi State, which is generally considered to have lasted from Turki ibn Abdallah's capture of Riyadh (which he designated as the new capital) in 1824 until the Battle of Mulayda in 1891.
Abdulaziz bin Abdul Rahman Al Saud (Arabic: عبد العزيز بن عبد الرحمن آل سعود; 15 January 1875 [note 3] – 9 November 1953), known in the Western world mononymously as Ibn Saud (Arabic: ابن سعود; Ibn Suʿūd), [note 4] was the founder and first king of Saudi Arabia, reigning from 23 September 1932 until his ...
The main weapon for achieving these conquests was the Ikhwan, the Wahhabist-Bedouin tribal army led by Sultan bin Bajad Al-Otaibi and Faisal al-Duwaish. [ 40 ] [ 44 ] [ 45 ] By 1906, Abdulaziz had driven the Al Rashid out of Najd, and the Ottomans recognized him as their client in Najd.
Prince Saud was born in Riyadh in 1882. [2] [4] He was the eldest son of Abdulaziz bin Saud Al Saud and Wahda bint Hazam Al Hithlain of Ajman. [2]His grandfather, Saud bin Faisal bin Turki, and great-grandfather, Faisal bin Turki bin Abdullah, were the rulers of the Second Saudi State.
The main tool for achieving these conquests was the Ikhwan, the Wahhabist-Bedouin tribal army led by Sultan bin Bajad and Faisal Al Dawish. [ 6 ] [ 7 ] From the Arabia core in Nejd, and aided by the collapse of the Ottoman Empire after the First World War , the Ikhwan had completed the conquest of the territory that was to become Saudi Arabia ...