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He (Sa'ud) appointed 'Abd al-Muin as the head official of the district and ordered that all shrines and graves should be demolished, because, in view of the Wahhabis, the people of Mecca and Medina were not worshiping Allahu ta'ala, but shrines.

Yursil Kidwai: Shrine Bombings Remind Us: Muslims are the Victims of Terrorism Yursil Kidwai 2010

The mantle passed from Sa'ud to Faisal to Khalid to Fahd and finally to Abdullah, all sons of King Abdul-Aziz.

Taufiq Rahim: The Day After in Saudi Arabia Taufiq Rahim 2011

But since the seizure of the holy city by the House of Sa'ud and the Wahhabi clerics in 1924, Hajj, which should be a glorious occasion in the life of every Muslim, has seen its capacity for spiritual fulfillment diminished.

Stephen Schwartz: Hajj: What It Has Become And What It Should Be Again Stephen Schwartz 2011

But since the seizure of the holy city by the House of Sa'ud and the Wahhabi clerics in 1924, Hajj, which should be a glorious occasion in the life of every Muslim, has seen its capacity for spiritual fulfillment diminished.

Stephen Schwartz: Hajj: What It Has Become And What It Should Be Again Stephen Schwartz 2011

The mantle passed from Sa'ud to Faisal to Khalid to Fahd and finally to Abdullah, all sons of King Abdul-Aziz.

Taufiq Rahim: The Day After in Saudi Arabia Taufiq Rahim 2011

He (Sa'ud) appointed 'Abd al-Muin as the head official of the district and ordered that all shrines and graves should be demolished, because, in view of the Wahhabis, the people of Mecca and Medina were not worshiping Allahu ta'ala, but shrines.

Yursil Kidwai: Shrine Bombings Remind Us: Muslims are the Victims of Terrorism Yursil Kidwai 2010

(Prince Sultan ibn Salman ibn 'Abd al-'Aziz Al Sa'ud of Saudi Arabia was the first Arab, the first Muslim and the first member of royalty in space on Discovery in 1986 1985).

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The House of Sa'ud — which rules Saudi Arabia — is directly descended from that alliance, and Wahhabism (though Saudis don't use the term) is the religion of the regime.

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Al-Wahhab soon established a political-religious alliance with a local bandit, Muhammad ibn Sa'ud, and they agreed that any territory they conquered could only be ruled by their descendants.

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As Stephen Schwartz describes it in his recent book, The Two Faces of Islam: The House of Sa'ud from Tradition to Terror, little is known about the early life of the sect's founder, Muhammad Ibn Abd al-Wahhab, except that as a young man he is thought to have traveled through much of the Ottoman empire.

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