Ibn Saud facts for kids

Quick facts for kids Ibn Saud
King of Saudi Arabia
Reign	14 August 1932 – 9 November 1953
Coronation	22 September 1932
Successor	Saud
Born	15 January 1876 Riyadh, Emirate of Nejd
Died	9 November 1953 (aged 77) Taif, Saudi Arabia
Burial	Al Oud cemetery, Riyadh
Full name Abdulaziz bin Abdul Rahman bin Faisal bin Turki bin Abdullah bin Muhammad bin Saud
House	House of Saud
Father	Abdul Rahman bin Faisal
Mother	Sarah Al Sudairi
Religion	Sunni Islam

Abdulaziz ibn Saud (15 January 1876 – 9 November 1953), was the founder and first monarch of Saudi Arabia. He was usually known in the Arab world as Abdulaziz and known outside it as Ibn Saud.

He reconquered his family's ancestral home city of Riyadh in 1902. This started 30 years which made him the ruler of nearly all of central Arabia. He consolidated his control over the Najd in 1922, then conquered the Hijaz in 1925. He united his dominions into the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia in 1932. As King, he presided over the discovery of petroleum in Saudi Arabia in 1938 and the beginning of large-scale oil production after World War II. He fathered many children, including 45 sons. He died of a heart attack. All the later kings of Saudi Arabia have been his children.

• Peter Polack, Guerrilla Warfare; Kings of Revolution,Casemate,ISBN: 9781612006758.

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  Abdul Rahman bin Faisal, Emir of Nejd

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  Ibn Saud's signature in a document to Eqab bin Muhaya

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  Ibn Saud with a foreigner in the 1930s

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  Ibn Saud converses with U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt (right) through interpreter Colonel Bill Eddy, on board the USS Quincy, after the Yalta Conference. Fleet Admiral William D. Leahy (left) watches.

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  Ibn Saud (seated) with his sons Prince Faisal (on the left) and Prince Saud (on the right) in the early 1950s

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  Ibn Saud (seated left) with his brother-in-law Mubarak Al Sabah in Kuwait, 1910