Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- A vast plateau region of the central Arabian Peninsula. It was the nucleus for the modern state of Saudi Arabia.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a central plateau region of the Arabian Peninsula; formerly an independent sultanate until 1932 when it united with Hejaz to form the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia
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Examples
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SCHWARTZ: He was a local kind of obscure local figure in a place called Uyana in Nejd, which is a fairly obscure part of Central Arabia.
The Two Faces of Islam: The House of Sa�ud from Tradition to Terror 2003
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The Nejd was the one clean spot in the decadent Moslem world.
The New World of Islam Lothrop Stoddard 1916
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They were from Nejd which is a fairly distant area in Central Arabia, but when Wahhabism emerges and it forms the religious creed, the religious group of Wahhabis form an alliance with the family of Sa ` ud and in the 19th Century and then again in the 20th Century they take over Mecca and Medina as part of their campaign to take over world Islam and they impose new rules on the Hajj.
The Two Faces of Islam: The House of Sa�ud from Tradition to Terror 2003
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Babylonia, is called Nejd; and the country which slopes Westwards, from Dzat-Irq to Tihama (the coast), is called Hijaz.”
Personal Narrative of a Pilgrimage to Al-Madinah and Meccah 2003
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Wahhabi movement of Islam since the 18th century and had historically maintained dominion over the interior highlands of Arabia known as the Nejd (see First Saudi State and Second Saudi
WN.com - Articles related to Saudi Reforms Five Years On: Looser Rein, Slight Gain 2010
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Wahhabi movement of Islam since the 18th century and had historically maintained dominion over the interior highlands of Arabia known as the Nejd (see First Saudi State and Second Saudi
WN.com - Articles related to Saudi Reforms Five Years On: Looser Rein, Slight Gain 2010
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In 1963 he built another school for girls in the town of Buraydah, in the heartland of the Wahhabi Nejd.
Crossing Mandelbaum Gate Kai Bird 2010
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In 1963 he built another school for girls in the town of Buraydah, in the heartland of the Wahhabi Nejd.
Crossing Mandelbaum Gate Kai Bird 2010
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Marcus from the USA - in what sense do immigrants from Hejaz and the Nejd, i.e. Arabs, or later Levantine ones from Syria and Egypt own "Palestine"?
On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with... 2008
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To be synechdochal about it, that's a veil in the Nejd.
Asifa Quraishi: “Western feminists have lost opportunities to work with - rather than against - Islam and Muslim women." Ann Althouse 2008
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