BAHRAIN - The Third Saudi Dynasty.

From: APS Diplomat Redrawing the Islamic Map | Date: May 3, 2004 | Copyright information

When his son, Abdel Aziz (Ibn Saud), moved from Kuwait to re-conquer Arabia, at the beginning of the 20th century, he called his campaign Al Tawheed. From each Arabian tribe he conquered, Ibn Saud married the daughter of its chief so that the alliance would "last for as many generations as possible". To the tribe's chief, this also was to mean his daughter would become the mother of a future ruler. Thus he married more than 40 wives, including the mother of Crown Prince Abdullah wh...

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