Prince Turki o Najd King Saud King Faisal Prince Muhammad King Khalid Prince Nasser Prince Saad Prince Mansour King Fahd Prince Bandar Prince Musa'id King Abdullah Prince Abdul Muhsin Prince Mishaal Prince Sultan Prince Abdul Rahman Prince Mutaib Prince Talal Prince Mishari Prince Badr Prince Turki the Sudairi Prince Nawwaf Prince Nayef Prince Fawwaz Croun Prince Salman Prince Majid Prince Thamir Prince Abdul Illah Prince Mamdouh Prince Sattam Prince Ahmed Prince Abdul Majeed Prince Hazloul Prince Mashhur Prince Muqrin Prince Hamoud Princess Al Bandari Princess Sultana Princess Luluwah Princess Al Jawhara Princess Haya Princess Seeta Princess Latifa
Full name
Abdulaziz bin Abdul Rahman bin Faisal bin Turki bin Abdullah bin Muhammad bin Saud
Abdul Aziz Al Saud (15 Januar 1876[1] – 9 November 1953) (Arabic: عبد العزيز آل سعود) wis the first monarch o The Third Saudi State kent as Saudi Arabie. O his full name Abdul Aziz bin Abdur Rahman Al Saud[2], he wis commonly referred tae as ibn Saud[3].
He wis born in Riyadh intae the House o Saud, which haed follaeed the Salafi muivement o Islam syne the 18t century an haed heestorically maintained dominion ower the interior hielands o Arabie kwny as the Nejd (see First Saudi State an Seicont Saudi State). Beginnin wi the reconquest o his faimily's ancestral hame ceety o Riyadh in 1902, Ibn Saud consolidatit his control ower the Nejd in 1922, conquered the Hejaz in 1925. The naition wis foondit an unified as Saudi Arabie in 1932. His later reign saw the discovery o petroleum in Saudi Arabie in 1938, an the beginnin o liarge-scale exploitation o that resoorce efter Warld War II.
Ibn Saud wis the faither o mony childer, includin aw Kings o Saudi Arabie that hae ruled efter him.
Succession tae Saudi Arabie's throne haes been a process that haes, tae a lairge extent, excludit aw but the senior members o the Al Saud. Male progeny, wi tenur in senior govrenment poseetions, whose mithers wur King Abdul Aziz bin Saud's wives an frae prominent peninsula based families an tribes, an who hae shawn baith the willingness an ability tae big the necessar consensus frae ither wings in the faimily ar, in theory, the maist eligible candidates. Al Saud ar considered tae be the richest faimily in the warld.
Ibn Saud converses wi then-American Preses Franklin D. Roosevelt (right) throu translator Colonel Bill Eddy on buird the USS Quincy efter the Yalta Conference
The nummer o childer that Ibn Saud faithered ar unkent. Ane soorce indicates that he haed 37 sons. His nummer o wives is put at 22,[4] Thay include: (names o kings in bold)
Bi Wadha bint Muhammad al-Hazzam
Turki (I) (1900–1919)
Saud (12 Januar 1902 - 23 Februar 1969); reigned 1953–1964
↑The birthdate o Abdul Aziz haes been a source o debate. It is generally acceptit as 1876, awtho a few sources give it as 1880. His mither is Princess Sarah Bint Ahmed AlSudairy. A primar raison statit in Robert Lacey's book "The Kingdom", which gives a clear statement on the reasons why 1876 is mair reasonable, is that a leadin Saudi historian foond records that show Abdul Aziz in 1891 greetin an important tribal delegation. The heestorian reasoned that a nine or ten-year-auld child (as given bi the 1880 birthdate) woud hae been too young tae be allawed tae greet such a delegation, while an adolescent o 14 or 15 (as given bi the 1876 date) woud likely hae been allowed. The major reason, though, is that when Lacey interviewed ane of Ibn Saud's sons prior tae writin the book, the son recalled that his faither aften laughed at records showin his birthdate tae be 1880. Ibn Saud's response tae such records wis that "I swallowed fower years o ma life."
↑ibn Saud meanin son o Saud an it is a sort o title borne bi previous heads o the House o Saud, similar tae a Scots clan chief's title o "the MacGregor" or "the MacDougall". When uised wi'oot comment it refers solely tae Abdul Aziz. (See Robert Lacey, The Kingdom (NY, Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1981), p. 15). Al Saud, wi a similar meanin (faimily o Saud) mey be uised at the end o the full name, while ibn Saud shoud sometimes be uised alane.