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3 unusual facts about Ibn Saud


Gerovital

The New York Times referred to Gerovital's "jet-set aura," noting that Aslan had been covered in "society columns where such public figures as Nikita S. Khrushchev, Konrad Adenauer, and Ibn Saud have been listed among the multitudes said to have taken the drug."

J. Paul Getty

Beginning in 1949, Getty paid Ibn Saud $9.5 million in cash and $1 million a year for a 60-year concession to a tract of barren land near the border of Saudi Arabia and Kuwait.

Saudi riyal

In 1995, transitional copper coins for ¼ and ½ Qirsh ( in some parts of the country it's pronounced as girsh) were minted in Mecca by `muhammad ayaan kadri.


Humaydah

They were a powerful house which governed the city of Bareq until the Ibn Saud invasion and lived peacefully beside al-Ali.


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Al-Khurma dispute

Ibn Saud himself however did not maintain neutrality through World War I, being generously supported by the British against the pro-Ottoman emirate of Ha'il.

When World War I began, Ibn Saud, the powerful Emir of Nejd, offered the Hashemite ruler Sharif Husayn ibn Ali and the leaders of Ha'il and Kuwait to adopt a neutral stance in the conflict, avoiding intervention in European-related matters, and seeking self-determination for the Arab people.

Golden gimmick

King Ibn Saud was being influenced by Juan Pablo Pérez Alfonso of Venezuela who cut a similar 50/50 deal with New Jersey Standard Oil and Royal Dutch Shell.

Gyula Germanus

The caravan arrived in Riyadh where King Abdul Aziz ibn Saud received the Hungarian scholar.

Institute of Islamic and Arabic Sciences in America

Controversial Saudi cleric and professor at Imam Muhammad ibn Saud Islamic University, Abd Al-Aziz Fawzan Al-Fawzan, taught at IIASA for a while.