Mohammed bin Salman

He worked as an adviser to his father from 2009, became deputy crown prince and defence minister in 2015, and on 21 June 2017 his father appointed him Crown Prince in place of Muhammad bin Nayef; on 27 September 2022 he became Prime Minister. ¹

In April 2016 he announced the Saudi Vision 2030 programme to diversify his country's economy away from oil, and he has led wide social reforms, among them the lifting of the ban on women driving in 2018 and the curtailing of the Wahhabi religious establishment's role in public life. In a televised interview on 25 April 2021 he criticised devotion to Wahhabi doctrines and said there are "no fixed schools of thought" — a statement of religious policy, not an attestation of personal affiliation. ¹

A United States ODNI assessment concluded that he ordered the assassination of the journalist Jamal Khashoggi in 2018; Mohammed bin Salman has denied ordering it, while accepting responsibility for it as the country's leader. This is recorded in attributed form, as documented in the source. ¹

The Sunni reading rests on a single structured value: the English article's infobox religion field, "Sunni Islam". It is not corroborated even within its own structured family — the Arabic article's infobox religion field gives Islam generically, and Wikidata's religion value is likewise Islam only — while the Arabic and Urdu "Saudi Sunni Muslims" categories are filings, which do not attest, and no text names a school as his own. His school is therefore recorded as unknown, with the reading preserved here. He is a crown prince, not a king, and no kingship succession is recorded for him. ^{1 2 3}

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