Diriyah pact founds the First Saudi State
- Period
- 1744
- Region
- Middle East
- Category
- Religion
The first Saudi state, officially the Emirate of Diriyah, was a polity that existed on the Arabian Peninsula between 1744 and 1818. The emir of a Najdi town called Diriyah, Muhammad bin Saud Al Muqrin, and the religious leader Muhammad ibn Abd al-Wahhab signed a pact founding a socio-religious reform movement that propagated the Wahhabi religious doctrine under the political leadership of the House of Saud. They then proceeded to expand their state throughout the Arabian Peninsula, the Levant, the coast of the Iranian city of Bandar Abbas, and the Bab al-Mandab Strait.
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Earlier and later events nearby
- c. AD 820Al-Khwarizmi's Al-Jabr
- c. AD 830House of Wisdom
- 1258Siege of Baghdad
- 1744Diriyah pact founds the First Saudi StateThis page
- 1967Six-Day War
- 19731973 oil crisis
- 1990–1991Gulf War
Who ruled this land
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