Buraida
Coordinates: 26 ° 20 ' N , 43 ° 58' E
Buraida ( Arabic بريدة, DMG Burayda ) is the capital of Qasim Province in central Saudi Arabia .
It has a little over 460,000 inhabitants (2010). Due to its central location, the city is well connected to the trunk road network of Saudi Arabia. There is a regional airport.
Buraida is the hometown of the well-known Islamic scholar Salmān al-ʿAuda , who was one of the so-called "Sheikhs of the Sahwa " ( mašāʾiḫ aṣ-ṣahwa ) in the 1980s and 1990s . Rallies in Buraida against the Saudi leadership in September 1994, known as the so-called "Buraida Intifada" ( intifāḍat Buraida ), for which the Sahwa Sheikhs were held responsible, led to the arrest of the leading members and top activists of this group, including Salmān al-ʿAuda.
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- ↑ www.citypopulation.de: Population figures for Saudi Arabia , accessed on January 27, 2014.