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Diriyah

الدرعية

City (Wikidata Q277505).

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Arabia
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Birthplace of
Hamza Namira· Muhammad ibn Saud· Saud ibn Abdulaziz ibn Muhammad Al Saud
Place of death of
Muhammad ibn Abd al-Wahhab
Site of
Siege of Dar'iyya (1765)· Siege of Diriyah

People and things also explored

Abdulaziz ibn Muhammad Al Saud· Muhammad ibn Abd al-Wahhab· Saud ibn Abdulaziz ibn Muhammad Al Saud· مصطفى الثالث· Al Oud cemetery· Alexandria· London· 'Uyayna

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islam.museum contributors. “Diriyah”. islam.museum, https://islam.museum/en/place/diriyah/. CC BY-SA 4.0. Last updated 2026-11-09.

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Abdulaziz ibn Muhammad Al Saud

Imam Abdulaziz ibn Muhammad Al Saud (1720–1803) was the second ruler of the Emirate of Diriyah and the first Saudi state. Raised and educated by Muhammad ibn Abd al-Wahhab, whose leading student he became and whose daughter he married, he commanded the state's armies in his father's lifetime and succeeded him in 1765; under him the state reached Riyadh, al-Hasa, Qatar, Bahrain and the Hejaz, and his forces sacked Karbala in 1802. He was assassinated at Diriyah in November 1803 while leading the prayer, and his son Saud succeeded him.