Why Does Saudi Arabia Exist? | The Rise of the House of Saud 

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Awesome! I've heard of the three Saudi states but I never managed to look further into the history of how they got to exist. Epic video, James, keep it up!!

اللهم اجعل هذا البلد آمناً مطمئناً سخاءً رخاءً وسائر بلاد المسلمين 🇸🇦

I don't get why your channel has such a small audience. Your videos are awesome

Very important point that needs correction. The saudi monarch in the first and second state was called both Emir and Imam and in fact Imam is more emphasized. The monarch was both political and religious head. The clergys function was to support him. That changed in the third state. Abdulaziz was called Sultan "malik" king and Emir of various emirates and kingdoms until they were all united officially to form modern saudi arabia with abdulaziz taking the title of king.

What an amazing video!

Great video man 👍

Simplicity at its best..... I wonder how much you struggled to acheive that simplicity.... great work mate

very interesting, I had heard this story before but in nowhere near as much detail as this

لايوجد شيء اسمه وهابية .. محمد بن عبدالوهاب تتم مهاجمته بسبب انه قال العبادة لله وحده لاشريك له وهدم القبور التي كان يذهب لها الناس لطلب الشفاعة من غير الله .

I like how your pronunciation is on point. Usually these names get mangled so badly they aren't coherent anymore :D

Amazing video

He wasn’t a RADICAL !!!!?? Stop telling lies to people! He was a good man who helped gather the other radical muslims and muslims who doesn’t know islam very well under the right creed which is against radicalism!! So stop saying that he is a radical

Good Historical video love from saudi arabia 💚💚💚🇸🇦

Hey man excellent video. To concisely cover what must have been a complicated series of political family dramas is nothing to sneeze at.

Great video, but there’s some points that needs to be correct 1- Mohammad bin Abdullawhab movement wasn’t radical, it came out of necessity when the Ottoman empire neglected the Arab people and they were left uneducated until they lost the teaching of islam at that time and people started worshiping other gods, but the radical movement came in the 70s and 80s and it’s what we call “Al-Sahwa” and they used Mohammad bin Abdullawhab book and name to justify their views that’s why people think they are connected when in fact the 2 movements has nothing to do with each other, that’s why when you see pictures and videos of Saudi up until the early 70s you will see a modern country and not as religious as it has became in the 80s but we finally got ride of “Al-sahwa” here in Saudi. 2- Al-khwan is a radical movement that started in Egypt not Saudi, and it was never part of the political scene in Saudi until the 80s when they supported Al-sahwa and it has always been against the royal family not with it. 3- the last point is the part that western historians like to leave out when they try to explain the dynamic here in Saudi. Our community here is a tribal one and when King Abdulaziz was trying to unite the country he made deals with most of the tribes leaders and was supported by most of them because he was one of them, and people have had enough of being ruled and terrorized by a foreign power which was the Ottoman Empire at the time, that’s why they rallied around him and went to war with him against the Ottomans and he promised a future without the ottomans control, and up until now the royal family here is still supported by all the tribes. So King Abdulaziz ruled be uniting the people under the tribal flag not necessarily the religious one.

As a Saudi I am grateful for King Abdulaziz and all the Arabian tribes fought with him to unite this desert that never saw such prosperity. You have to understand at that time people starved to death and the survival is for the stronger in the arabian desert during the otmans empire that didn’t do much for them. You would say it was the oil but oil wasn’t enough for unstable country. The country needed a visionary king rules by firm hands for Saudi to be what it became.

impressive, a Western content maker who talks objectively about Arab history. You are the first to do it. Thank you, sir

Extremely underrated

Great job once again

Fun Fact: The Al Saud are a section of the Anizah tribe, also the Al Sabah of Kuwait, and the Al Khalifah of the Bahrain. The approximate number of members of the tribe is 25 million, and the Al Rashid are from the Shammar tribe, and the approximate number is 20 million.

💎 ABSOLUTELY FASCINATING 💎 🙏💜🙏 🕊🌟🕊

make more videos about midle east histrioy becoase its really entartaning

God bless the Najdi Arabs 🇱🇾🤝🇸🇦 It Imam Terkhi not Turki.

Radical? Whabbism? There is no such thing as Whabbism and mohammed bin abdulalwhab was not radical, Muslims in the Arabian Peninsula in his time returned to worshiping Graves and stones like they were before Islam until he came and enlightened us again and made us return to the right path and we never call ourselves Whabbis and Whabbisem never existed as a cult with its own beliefs separated from the rest of the Muslims, Whabbisem is the biggest lie you westerns lie on Saudi Arabia, and such insult to us will not be tolerated

Why would we be going away anytime soon ? This land is arab and will remain “pure” Arab, beduin, tribal land forever.

No such thing as "Wahhabis".

I like this because it was swift and to the point, but what happened to the Al-Rashid family after the saudis took over?

Saudi Arabia has become a great country

5:14 Why you didn’t include Lebanon and Western Syria in this Arab state. The king Faisal wanted these lands and are historical for Arabia

Cuz by its own people we the HijaziNajdi 🇸🇦❤

keep the good work sub and like

قول ماشاءالله

Because it's good country

sorry if our country leaders names are really hard, dont be confused.

3:55 Man that sounds a lot like the Fremen from Dune. Frank Herbert is known to have been very heavily influenced by Arabic history in writing the story, but this is pretty eerily close. A displaced prince gets back his land thanks to taking control of large extremely proficient fighters accustomer to harsh life of the desert through cultivating their extreme religious fanaticism towards him. Also the fact that the ruler eventually loses control of the fanatical followers is also comparable to Paul's fate.

Muhammad ibn Abdul Wahhab rahimahu Allah is not a "Radical" he is but a hanbali shaikh who reestablished "Tawhid" which is the onness of Allah. And just to clarify for those kids who are gonna reply, I am not a saudi.

Being a secular Muslim, I think about the history of Middle East as a fascinating piece.

Actually middle East want only turkey Saudi Iran balance have merge with these countries

We know what you did, Abdulaziz! Making 45 sons alone makes me admire how he even had time to rule a state.

There are so many errors in this especially about Muhammad ibn Abdil Wahhab and the so called „Wahhabism“ Calling People Wahhabi is dumb because al Wahhab is one of the 99 names of Allah

why are you using words like ''radicals'' or ''zealuts''?

Qaddafi asked Saddam calmly: WHY SAUDI EXISTS?

So much misinformation We're not wahabis it's a made up word to insult us MIAW was not an extremist

the thing is that im muslim i come from Saudi Arabia and I’m living in Saudi Arabia and yet don’t know all of this information 😅

Based question

6:10 You didn’t mention that he made a deal with the ottomans he surrender him self at one condition aldareyah safety , the ottomans agreed .. they took him to istanbul and beheaded him . And then the ottmans broke the agreement they massacred and killed thousands of people and ruined every building .

Smth Worth to mention: the first 2 emirates did not succeed bc Al Saud didn’t allied themselves with the most powerful tribes at that time (Harb) (Mutair) (Otaiba) those tribes ruled 35% of Arabia, and they block the ottomans from moving to Najad and deep west hijaz (Otaiba & Harb) and when ibn saud allied himself with these tribes they were able to crush the ottomans and jabal Shamar (state puppet)

Real Talk

You have got a lot of miss information. I don’t know where do you get your facts from but a lot of it is wrong . States resources because I disagree with more than half of what you say.

I ask God, the Most High, the Great, to perpetuate the House of Saud and the banner of monotheism always and forever.

Can someone explain the familial relations between the Saudi and Qatari royal family. I heard they're cousins 🤔

I am Arabic in Saudi ❤❤🎉

It's interesting to pomder what Saudia Arabia looks like with no American support.

3:54 headed by Paul Atreides 🤣

Bro what about Yemen 🇾🇪

The Emirate of Jabal Shammar🇲🇻 is the greatest, my friend! Look at what the orientalist John Frederick Williams said about the Shammar tribe, which subjugated most of the tribes of the island and which (never allied with the West and did not submit to it despite the continuous offers of Great Britain, France, Russia, and Germany), John said; “When the Astana government consolidated its control over the island, the rebellious Shammar clan presented a strong and continuous challenge to the Ottoman authority. It took a struggle that lasted almost 100 years, on the part of the Ottoman government and also on the part of the British and Iraqi governments after the First Great War, to subjugate the Shammar permanently.” Yes. The Shammar state was in control without oil, and King Abdulaziz took advantage of Britain in order to restore the rule of his ancestors, so he established the Saudi state with the help of Britain..

Nah man the Saudi's just said a dua (prayer) to god

As a Muslim, i heavily agree to that..

It's crazy to think, if the British got involved to help Najd than Najd may have united Arabia. The new government would have been much more pro western (First from Arab revolt and now British help to unite Arabia) when oil was discovered this new Saudi Arabia could have become a very strong western ally.

الحمد لله على نعمة آل سعود🇸🇦

There are many reasons why suadi arabia exist Pet The Saudi Care For The Saudi And Help The Saudi

its a kingdom not a "states"

Nah man ur asking that while it's my country why tf are u being mean to it 💀

yay im from saudi arabia

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ITS BECAUSE OF MAKKAH AND MADINAH POWER OF ALLAH MUSLIM GANG 👇🏻

3:00

كلنا سلماااان كلنا محمد!

God bless kingdom of Saudi Arabia 🇸🇦

I think this is the best narration I have heard of the history of Saudi Arabia. Concise but covering almost all the key points. Well Done. I hope you can do you can do one to explain how the roots of terrorism were formed in this region, the role of both Ultra Wahabism and Muslim brotherhood. And how current reforms in Saudi Arabia are going to change that at very roots. Cheers

I live in Saudi Arabia

Why are you talking about my country why do you guys say why does it exist what did we do?!

All great but the maps, in the northern side of Saudi, Jordan and Syria were ruled by my tribe the ruwalah tribe, ibn rashid had some parts of Iraq and his capital was ha’il, we eventually gave out our lands willingly to king abdulaziz because first we believed in his cause and Second we both belong to the same tribe.

HEY IM IN SAUDI

Muhammad Ibn Abdul Wahhab was not radical. Hardly a ‘neutral’ take on history here. LOL. Perhaps he’s ‘radical’ to the people of whims and desires and are ignorant of their religion. Stop taking sources of history outside of Europe from European and western sources. And maybe study the religion a bit more before definitely defining someone as radical or not.

the fall of Hedjaz to Nejd is one of the greatest tragedies of modern history

Truth always prevail, the saudi family is squarely responsible for all the calamities and humiliations that have fallen on the muslim ummah. The British brought the Plan to Shariff hussain Al Saud who plotted the destruction of the CALIPHATE rule in return to be made king . He was also paid 7 million pounds. We will continue to publish the truth. Their silence, inaction on the issue of Palestine and their past historical involvement against Iraq is more than enough to tell the world who are the Saudi family.

im Saudi

Anyone know what happened to the family of the former ruler of the Hejaz?

you forgot to mention saudi yemni war in 1930s

Nothing call wahabi.!

western people should pronounce our names right like we do to their names

The title made me think it was bad but I didn’t think to see

Idk

Saudi Arabia is best for peace life with no more blah blah like what else others doing!

Saudi arabia gang 👇

I still think that The Sauds should Jive Hejaz back to the Hashemites despite them being the legitimist rulers of the land and Direct Descendants of the Prophet Muhammad

It’s funny to see how you declare somebody radical when you know nothing about religion Islam. tell me why was he radical or are you just blind following somebody speech?

Thanks for making me learn about my country's history Saudi Arabia 🇸🇦

why do you even exist in this universe of meeca

من فضلك توقف عن الحديث عن دول لا تعرف تاريخها 😮😮😮 انت فقط تسيء للدول العربية دون معرفتك بالتاريخ يبدوا ان من يزودك بالمعلومات يعاني من كره لنا

There is no caliphate universally recognised after 1924

Inshallah, if you look at what happened to Armenians, Greeks, Assyrians and Kurds, as well as the Arabs, you will understand why we valued independence. We have revolted against the corrupt Turkish rulers in Istanbul, we failed at first, but we never gave up and finally we regained our homeland after 400 years. May Allah guide our heroes to heaven and grant them janaat for overthrowing the evil Turks.

Mohammed bin Abdulwahab wasn’t radical he was a normal one

Actually whole land of Rashidun Empire is ours !!!!!°°

LONG LIVE SAUDI ARABIA AND THE HOUSE OF AL-SAUD 🇸🇦🇸🇦🇸🇦🇸🇦🤍🤍🤍🤍🤍🤍

We live because we have the Quran and you can probably go to hell or heaven it is going to choose you don’t drop it and then it’s you’re going to hell

This is the birth of modern radical islamism too (note Wahab - Wahabism!)

Your maps are wrong.. kuwait was not part of Saudi Arabia nor Ottomans 🤦🏻