Faisal ibn Turki Al Saud

Faisal ibn Turki Al Saud ( Arabic فيصل بن تركي بن ​​عبد الله آل سعود, DMG Faiṣal bin Turkī bin ʿAbdallāh Āl Saʿūd ; * 1788 ; † December 2, 1865 ) was 1834-1838 and 1843-1865 Imam of the Wahhabis .

Faisal I was born in 1788 at the latest and is said to have participated in the conquest of Mecca in 1803 under Abd al-Aziz ibn Muhammad . After the conquest of Dariya by Egypt (1818), he was first captured. However, he managed to escape to the Najd , where he was appointed heir to the throne by his father Turki as-Saud (1820–1834). In the following years he subjugated the province of al-Hasa in eastern Arabia. When he found out about the murder of his father there (1834), he hurried to Riyadh , had the conspiracy put down and took over the government.

However, Faisal I could not gain recognition from the Egyptians. In 1836 they dispatched Khalid ibn Saud, a son of Saud I ibn Abd al-Aziz, to Arabia. He was able to prevail with Egyptian troops. After the defection of his allies, Faisal I had to surrender in 1838 and go into exile in Cairo .

After the power struggles in Najd continued, Faisal I managed to return to Arabia in 1843 and, in alliance with the Shammar, the overthrow of Imam Abdallah II. Ibn Tnejjan (1842–1843). In a short time Faisal I succeeded in pacifying the Najd again and was able to turn to the expansion of his power in Eastern Arabia. In 1845 he conquered the Buraimi oasis in Oman and in 1850 forced the tribes in Qatar and al-Hasa to submit. Even Bahrain had the supremacy of the Wahhabis in 1851 to acknowledge.

In order to consolidate the empire, the provinces of the empire were no longer administered by local emirs but by governors from the Saud clan. The almost blind Faisal I died on December 2, 1865. His son Abdallah III was his successor . ibn Faisal (1865-1889).

See also

Saud dynasty

literature

• Jörg-Dieter Brandes: ... with saber and Koran. Saudi Arabia, or the rise of the Saud royal family and the Wahabi people . Thorbecke, Stuttgart 1999, ISBN 3-7995-0094-4