Saudi king fahd biography
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King of Saudi Arabia Fahd Biography
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1923, in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia; died after a long illness, August 1, 2005, in Riyadh. King. Saudi Arabia's King Fahd Bin Abdul Aziz Al Saud ruled over a once-barren desert kingdom whose oil riches made it one of the world's wealthiest nations.
The once-errant playboy courted alliances with the West as well as other Arab nations, which placed his tightly controlled realm in an ideological buffer zone between the Muslim world and secular democracies.
Saudi king fahd biography
Under Fahd, however, Saudi society remained authoritarian and dominated by strict Islamic-law codes.
Fahd is believed to have been born in 1923, at a time when Saudi Arabia did not yet exist as a nation. The Saud royal family had emerged as a political dynasty in the 1740s in the central Arabian peninsula by forging alliances with clerics of a conservative Islamic sect known as Wahhabism.
Fahd's father, Amir Abdul Aziz, led a series of military excursions that enlarged t