Fahda bint al-Asi bin Shuraim
Umm Malik ( Queen Mother) Princess Fahda bint Asi bin Shuraim Al Shammari ( Arabic فهدة بنت العاصي بن شريم الرشيد, DMG Fahda bt. al-ʿĀṣī b. Šuraim Āl Saʿūd ; † 1934 ) was the eighth wife of Abd al-Aziz ibn Abdul Rahman , also called Ibn Saud, and had three children with him. She came from the Shammar tribe and belonged to the royal family of Saudi Arabia .
The Shammar settled in the northern area of the Arabian Peninsula, Jordan, Syria, Iraq and Iran and were among the most bitter opponents of the Saudi dynasty until they were defeated on November 2, 1921 . Princess Fahda's father, Sheikh Asi bin Shuraim Al Shammari, was the leader of the Abda sub-tribe of the Shammar tribal faction.
The former rivals of the Al Saud family, the Al Raschid (at that time the ruling family over the region of Jabal Shammar and the Shammar tribe based in Hail) also come from the tribe of the Shammar, today the Al Raschid family represents the family Al Saud was allowed to marry, only the heads of the Shammar tribe), who were defeated by King Abd al-Aziz. Fahda was previously married to the Tenth Emir of the Al Rashid clan, who was killed by Saud in 1920.
Their first child with Saud was the Saudi King Abdullah ibn Abd al-Aziz , who was in office from 2005 to 2015 .
source
- Madawi Al Rasheed: Politics in an Arabian oasis. The Rashidi Tribal Dynasty. IB Tauris & Co Ltd , London & New York 1991 (based on a Ph.D. thesis presented to Cambridge University , 1988). ISBN 1-85043-320-8
| personal data | |
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| SURNAME | Fahda bint al-Asi bin Shuraim |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Fahda bint al-Asi bin Shuraim Al Saʿud |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | eighth wife of the future Saudi king Saud ibn Abd al-Aziz |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 19th century or 20th century |
| DATE OF DEATH | 1934 |