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THE ORIGIN AND HISTORICAL BACKGROUND OF SAUDI ROYAL FAMILY
From: http://www.cifiaonline.com/saudiroyalfamily.htm 17 Nov 2013 الخلفية التاريخية للآل سعود، حكام المملكة العربية السعودية Historians have traced that the Sauds belonged to Anza tribe who were settled in Najd around 1450 AD. It is said that Sauds were originally Jews and shrewd Feudal Lords. King Faisal (1906-1975), who ruled the Kingdom between 1964-75, confirmed…
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On Sir Ibn Whahhab, The 19 th Century, by David Livingston
(extracts): Mohammed ibn Abdul Wahhab was born in 1703, in the small town in a barren wasteland called Najd, in the eastern part of what is now called Saudi Arabia. Ominously, Mohammed, the prophet of Islam, had already refused to confer blessings on the region, claiming that from it would emerge only ―disturbances, disorder and…

