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Najd

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Sep 14, 2026

Andrew NapolitanoHOST
16:43
Mm
Alastair CrookeGUEST
16:43
... um, who turned out to be a, a spy, um, h- his father, uh, was very close to Ibn Saud, and he told Ibn Saud, the king, um, or at least one of the tribal leaders at that time, he wasn't the king, but he was, uh, the important figure, um, and in contrast to what others were, were, were seeing for the region, and he said, "Listen, with the Wahhabis, with the, with the current coming out of the Nejd Desert, a very austere, rigid form of Islam, you can rule the Middle East." And that's what the British did under St.
Alastair CrookeGUEST
17:23
John Philby's, uh, guidance.
Alastair CrookeGUEST
17:25
They gave him the weapons, they gave him the means, and he destroyed most of the Arab tribes in the region, except the Nejd tribes, um, who, um, they were not completely destroyed, but he assimilated them into the National Guard.
Alastair CrookeGUEST
17:43
And that's why, uh, Saudi is still so Wahhabi and so hard line i- in, in, in, in terms o- of Islam.
Alastair CrookeGUEST
17:52
The other tribes, he did a double act.
Maria JamesNARRATOR
31:55
His talk was forever of Ibn er-Rashid, the young chief of the Shamar, whose powerful uncle Muhammad had left him so uneasy a legacy of dominion in central Arabia.
Maria JamesNARRATOR
32:08
For two years I had heard no news of Nejd.
Maria JamesNARRATOR
32:11
What of Ibn Saud, the ruler of Riyadh and Ibn er-Rashid's rival? How went the war between them? Mabuk had heard many rumours.
Maria JamesNARRATOR
32:22
Men did say that Ibn er-Rashid was in great straits.
Maria JamesNARRATOR
32:26
Perhaps the radifs were bound for Nejd and not for Yemen.
Maria JamesNARRATOR
32:29
Who knew? And had we heard that a sheik of the Sukur had been murdered by the Ajameh, and as soon as the tribe came back from the eastern pasturages
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32:40
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Jordan RussellNARRATOR
81:45
And then there they had come to an agreement, Ibn er Rashid relinquishing all his territory to within a mile or two of Hayul, but retaining that city and the lands to the north of it, including Joff, and recognizing Ibn Saud's sovereignty over Riyadh and its extended fief.
Jordan RussellNARRATOR
84:43
Two soldiers had made the best of their way westward across the desert, for they said most of their companions and arms were slain and the rest had fled.
Jordan RussellNARRATOR
84:52
This was by far the most authentic news I was to receive from Najd, and I have reason to believe that it was substantially correct.
Jordan RussellNARRATOR
85:00
I questioned many of the Arabs as to Ibn er-Rashid's character.
Jordan RussellNARRATOR
85:04
The answer was almost invariably the same.
speaker_2NARRATOR
31:25
His talk was forever of Ibn er-Rashid, the young chief of the Shamar, whose powerful uncle Muhammad had left him so uneasy a legacy of dominion in central Arabia.
speaker_2NARRATOR
31:38
For two years I had heard no news of Nejd, what of Ibn Saud, the ruler of Riyadh and Ibn er-Rashid's rival.
speaker_2NARRATOR
31:48
How went the war between them? Mabuk had heard many rumors.
speaker_2NARRATOR
31:52
Men did say that Ibn er-Rashid was in great straits.
speaker_2NARRATOR
31:56
Perhaps the radifs were bound for Nejd and not for Yemen.
speaker_2NARRATOR
31:59
Who knew? And had we heard that a sheik of the Sukur had been murdered by the Ajameh, and as soon as the tribe came back from the eastern pasturages,
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32:10
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Jordan RussellNARRATOR
221:38
The wheels of the Turk grind slowly and often stop, but in the end they grind small, especially when the grist is Arab tribes rendered peculiarly brittle by their private jealousies and suspicions and pretensions.
Ibrahim BhamGUEST
20:02
And he started becoming ill when he was about to leave and Nabi Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam said, all he saved is saved from the fever of Medina.
Ibrahim BhamGUEST
20:11
But when he reached an oasis in Najd near Riyadh, present-day Riyadh, called Farda, he died from that fever.
Ibrahim BhamGUEST
20:19
But look at how Nabi al-Karim, peace be upon him, honored him by giving him such a beautiful name.
Ibrahim BhamGUEST
20:25
So I suppose that is what we're learning.
Tariq JameelHOST
4:11
But that wasn't enough for them.
Tariq JameelHOST
4:13
To gain more support, they went to the tribe of Qatafan, who lived between Mecca and Nejd.
Tariq JameelHOST
4:18
And it didn't take much time to convince them either.
Tariq JameelHOST
4:20
Soon after, the Banu Sulaym also agreed to join forces with them.
Maria JamesNARRATOR
31:40
His talk was forever of Ibn er-Rashid, the young chief of the Shamar, whose powerful uncle Muhammad had left him so uneasy a legacy of dominion in central Arabia.
Maria JamesNARRATOR
31:53
For two years I had heard no news of Nejd, what of Ibn Saud, the ruler of Riyadh and Ibn er-Rashid's rival.
Maria JamesNARRATOR
32:02
How went the war between them? Mabuk had heard many rumors.
Maria JamesNARRATOR
32:06
Men did say that Ibn er-Rashid was in great straits.
Maria JamesNARRATOR
32:10
Perhaps the radifs were bound for Nejd and not for Yemen.
Maria JamesNARRATOR
32:14
Who knew? And had we heard that a sheik of the Sukur had been murdered by the Ajameh, and as soon as the tribe came back from the eastern pasturages
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32:24
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Jordan RussellNARRATOR
226:38
The wheels of the Turk grind slowly and often stop, but in the end they grind small, especially when the grist is Arab tribes rendered peculiarly brittle by their private jealousies and suspicions and pretensions.
Shadee ElmasryHOST
31:05
So that's what we call tayyin, which is specifying the person with kufr.
Shadee ElmasryHOST
31:12
Okay? I tell you so many people in the past have made statements incorrectly assigning something as kufr, right? But because they never passed the Rubicon, crossed the Rubicon, or crossed the Ne- desert of Nejd and made tayyin and said, "You yourself, fulan son of fulan, are now a kafir." So that's one thing.
Shadee ElmasryHOST
31:40
So now some- there's another Rubicon after that, which is now I'm in charge of the city, of the state, come and give me that neck of yours so I might strike it, and that's exactly what they had done, right? That's what they did.
Shadee ElmasryHOST
31:57
And, um, there's one guy out there, he said, "The only difference between me and Ibn Abdul Wahhab is that Ibn Taymiyyah didn't have power.
Khalid MohamadHOST
25:14
Before next year came, the delegation of the Ansar came in Rajab, which we're gonna speak about in our next lesson, Inshallah.
Khalid MohamadHOST
25:20
Another example is Banu Amir ibn Sa'sa'a, who controlled much of the Najd region, and they were known to be very politically-minded, and they were heavily engrounded in their military section and from that military perspective.
Khalid MohamadHOST
25:34
So it's been mentioned, Subhanallah, so engrounded that they would even boast at others and towards others that our women have never been taken as captives.
Khalid MohamadHOST
25:44
Uh, you know, that's, that's, uh, to say that they had that military might.
Katie JensenHOST
0:32
In Saudi Arabia, the kingdom and France have maintained and strengthened a one hundred-year official relationship.
Katie JensenHOST
0:39
Full diplomatic relations began in 1926 when France became one of the first countries to recognize the Kingdom of Hejaz and Najd.
Katie JensenHOST
0:49
Ties deepened with a landmark military assistance agreement in 1972.
Katie JensenHOST
0:54
In Syria, senior Syrian and Israeli officials met on Sunday in an effort to ease tensions.

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