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516:. Although not a Sudairi himself, Faisal, in his struggle to overthrow Saud, relied heavily upon the seven Sudairi brothers. One of the earliest significant roles played by the Sudairi Seven was in March 1962 when they collaborated with Crown Prince Faisal. They threatened five members of King Saud's cabinet to submit their resignations following the announcement of the constitution by the king which had been drafted by the members of the
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527:, resigned from the office as a result of their extensive campaign against them. Then in 1962, as prime minister and heir apparent, Prince Faisal appointed Prince Fahd as interior minister, Prince Sultan as defense minister, and Prince Salman as governor of Riyadh. All were key posts. Following his accession to the throne after King Saud's deposition in 1964, King Faisal continued to favor the Sudairi Seven as his allies.
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On 28 October 2011, Prince Nayef became the Crown Prince after the death of Prince Sultan, and his other full brother Prince Salman, who had been a long-term Riyadh governor, was appointed the minister of defence. However, the eldest surviving member of the
Sudairi brothers, Prince Abdul Rahman, was
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Abdulaziz fathered in total, with all his wives, is unknown. One source indicates that he had 37 sons. The Sudairi Seven – the seven sons of King Abdulaziz and Hassa bint Ahmed – were the largest bloc of full brothers and as a consequence, were able to wield a degree
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Sudairis’ rise to power and hold over government brought continuity to the system. It also prompted other princes to align quietly against them. The main opposition to the Sudairis came from Prince Abdullah prior to his accession to the throne. He cultivated allies among his other brothers and
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to establish the
Kingdom of Saudi Arabia in 1932, and became its first king. As part of this process of expansion, he married women from powerful Nejdi and other Arab families to cement his control over all parts of his new domain. It is believed he married as many as 22 women as a result. One of
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Prince Abdul Rahman was reported to argue that he should have been promoted instead of Prince Salman. On the other hand, the youngest of the
Sudairi brothers, Ahmed, who had been Prince Nayef's deputy at the ministry of interior since 1975, was reported to complain about that Prince Nayef was
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became both minister of defense and secretary general of the Court, combining two of the most powerful offices in the government, and
Mohammed bin Nayef bypassed hundreds of senior princes to become the first of the third generation to be officially placed in the line of succession.
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of coordinated influence and power. King
Abdulaziz and Hassa bint Ahmed married twice; their first marriage started in 1913 and may have produced a son, Prince Sa'ad (1914–19). Hassa then married
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actively promoting the interest of his own son, Prince
Mohammed. Lastly, another Sudairi Prince Turki, who returned to Riyadh in early 2011 after a long and at least partly voluntary exile in
582:. The Sudairis filled a fifth of the council’s seats which is seen as a dilution of Sudairi power since their overall control over the state is perceived as proportionately greater than this.
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1627:"Profile: New Saudi Interior Minister Prince Abdulaziz bin Saud bin Nayef"
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682:"New Saudi Rules on Succession: Will They Fix the Problem?"
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959:"Prince Fahd bin Abdullah: An admiral and a desert lover"
832:"The Saudi succession: When kings and princes grow old"
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in 2017 only the two youngest of the Seven (Salman and
1405:"The next generation of Saudi royals is being groomed"
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1492:"Defense Minister New Heir to Throne in Saudi Arabia"
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Nathaniel Kern; Matthew M. Reed (15 November 2011).
1067:"Saudi Arabia's king appoints new interior minister"
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546:– as his deputies. Another of Prince Sultan’s sons,
1293:"Prince Sultan bin Abdel Aziz of Saudi Arabia Dies"
1597:"Mohammad bin Salman named new Saudi Crown Prince"
1466:"King Abdullah's Illness and the Saudi Succession"
128:from 1982 to 2005; the second- and fourth-oldest (
1516:Abdullah Al Shihri; Brian Murphy (18 June 2012).
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113:. The King had more sons with their mother,
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957:Abdulateef Al Mulhim (24 April 2013).
868:. John Wiley & Sons. p. 129.
658:Succession to the Saudi Arabian throne
187:Fahd bin Abdullah bin Mohammed Al Saud
16:Alliance of seven Saudi royal siblings
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1464:Joshua Teitelbaum (8 December 2010).
1351:"The Split in the Saudi Royal Family"
1291:Neil MacFarquhar. (23 October 2011).
1236:. Bloomsbury Publishing. p. 58.
848:
475:Princess Latifa (died September 2024)
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1349:William Safire (12 September 2002).
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1230:David Rundell (17 September 2020).
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680:Simon Henderson (25 October 2006).
620:Reign of King Salman (2015–present)
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71:
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1361:from the original on 10 April 2014
1039:Global Security Watch—Saudi Arabia
703:Irfan Al Alawi (24 October 2011).
586:Reign of King Abdullah (2005–2015)
481:(died 2019) was married to Prince
14:
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1866:Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques
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1490:Neil MacFarquhar (18 June 2012).
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44:The eldest of the Sudairi Seven,
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1543:Ian Black (23 January 2015).
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1403:Ian Bremmer (2 March 2012).
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936:10.1080/21534764.2011.576050
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770:"Saudi Succession Crisis"
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236:Minister of the Interior
183:Muhammad bin Abdul Rahman
2131:Tadawul (stock exchange)
2126:Supreme Economic Council
2074:Capital Market Authority
2028:General Staff Presidency
1881:Mabahith (secret police)
1603:. Beirut. 21 June 2017.
1386:Foreign Reports Bulletin
1042:. ABC-CLIO. p. 32.
901:. Fontana. p. 526.
372:Deputy Defense Minister
305:Deputy Defense Minister
144:; and the sixth-oldest (
76:As Sudayriyyūn as Sabʿah
2013:Strategic Missile Force
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369:Removed from succession
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164:Origins and composition
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1124:Middle Eastern Studies
1015:Gulf States Newsletter
736:Middle Eastern Studies
1861:Consultative Assembly
1579:30 April 2015 at the
1103:. Riyadh. 7 June 2015
983:Sabri Sharaf (2001).
837:30 April 2011 at the
576:Allegiance Commission
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518:Free Princes movement
402:King of Saudi Arabia
1298:23 June 2018 at the
1259:Policing and Society
1214:10.1093/pastj/gtx057
862:Mark Weston (2008).
634:Muqrin bin Abdulaziz
412:Minister of Defense
220:King of Saudi Arabia
126:King of Saudi Arabia
54:King of Saudi Arabia
2121:Saudi Central Bank
1929:Freedom of religion
1710:Early Islamic State
1441:. 30 October 2011.
1316:Mai Yamani (2008).
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1073:. 5 November 2012.
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715:on 11 December 2012
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578:, to determine the
479:Princess Al Jawhara
417:Governor of Riyadh
154:Prince Abdul Rahman
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1919:Capital punishment
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1715:Rashidun Caliphate
1705:Pre-Islamic Arabia
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1355:The New York Times
1304:The New York Times
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560:Norman Schwarzkopf
448:Interior Minister
364:(1934–2016)
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298:(1931–2017)
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103:ʿĀʾilat as-Sudayrī
88:Saudi royal family
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