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First Saudi State (Emirate of Diriyah)

First Saudi state, founded by Muhammad bin Saud in alliance with the religious reformer Muhammad ibn Abd al-Wahhab, expanding from Najd to control most of the Arabian Peninsula including the Hejaz.

Destroyed in 1818 by an Ottoman-Egyptian expeditionary force under Ibrahim Pasha (the Ottoman-Saudi War), which razed Diriyah.

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Further reading

• A History of Saudi Arabia Madawi Al-Rasheed · 2002

  Standard scholarly history of Saudi Arabia from the First Saudi State through the modern kingdom.

Sources

• First Saudi state — Wikipedia