Saud bin Muhammad Al Muqrin

In this Arabic name, the surname is Al Muqrin.

Saud bin Muhammad Al Muqrin (Arabic: سعود بن محمد آل مقرن Suʿūd ibn Muḥammad Āl Muqrin; 1640–1726) was the eponymous ancestor of the House of Saud, otherwise known as the al-Saud.^[1][2]

Saud bin Muhammad Al Muqrin
Predecessor	Muhammad bin Muqrin
Successor	Muhammad bin Saud
Born	1640 Diriyah
Died	1726 (aged 85–86) Diriyah
Issue	Muhammad Thunayyan Mishari Farhan
Names Sa'ud bin Muhammad bin Muqrin al-Muraydi
Dynasty	Muqrin Branch of the House of Mani'
Father	Muhammad bin Muqrin

Ancestry

Saud was descended from the Al Muqrin family, whose earliest recorded ancestor was Mani' bin Rabiah Al Muraydi who settled in Diriyah in 1446–1447 with his clan, the Mrudah.^[3] The Mrudah are believed to be descended from the Banu Hanifa branch of the Rabi'ah tribal confederation.^[3]

The Al Saud originated as a leading family in a town called Diriyah, close to the modern city of Riyadh, near the center of Najd. Sometime in the early 16th century, ancestors of Saud bin Muhammad took over some date groves, one of the few forms of agriculture the area could support, and settled there. Over time, the groves grew into a small town, and the clan came to be recognized as its leaders.^[4]

Descendants

Saud had several sons: Muhammad,^[5] Thunayyan,^[6] Mishari, and Farhan.^[7]

Saud died in 1726 and was succeeded by his son Muhammad.^[5] One of Saud's brothers, Muqrin, was killed by Muhammad bin Saud, which caused an intrafamilial struggle and therefore, Zaid bin Farhan ('son of Farhan') found an opportunity to control the rule of Diriyah.^[8]

Two decades after Saud's death, his son Muhammad bin Saud made his historic pact with Muhammad bin Abd al-Wahhab, leading to their conquest of Arabia and the establishments of the First Saudi State.^[9] Sheikh Muhammad's patronymic "Ibn Saud" eventually gave the clan its name of Al Saud.

References

1. John Pike. "King Abdul Aziz bin Abdul Rahman Al-Saud". Retrieved 13 July 2016.
2. Mohamed Zayyan Aljazairi (1968). Diplomatic history of Saudi Arabia, 1903-1960's (MA thesis). University of Arizona. p. 1. hdl:10150/318068.
3. Stig Stenslie (2012). Regime Stability in Saudi Arabia: The Challenge of Succession. Routledge. p. 53. ISBN 978-1136511578.
4. Saud Wahhabi Archived 9 August 2016 at the Wayback Machine au.af.mil
5. Jacob Goldberg (1986). The Foreign Policy of Saudi Arabia. The Formative Years. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press. p. 7. doi:10.4159/harvard.9780674281844.c1. ISBN 9780674281844.
6. Hassan S. Abedin (2002). Abdul Aziz Al Saud and the Great Game in Arabia, 1896-1946 (PhD thesis). King's College London.
7. "Royal Family Directory". Datarabia. Retrieved 19 December 2016.
8. Abdullah Hazaa Othman; Oleg Evgenievich Grishin; Bakil Hasan Nasser Ali (2020). "The Conflict Wings in the Saudi Political System". Journal of Politics and Law. 13 (3): 65. doi:10.5539/jpl.v13n3p64. S2CID 225480634.
9. Joel Carmichael (July 1942). "Prince of Arabs". Foreign Affairs (July 1942).

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