The Diriyah Pact was an agreement signed between the Emir of Diriyah, Imam Muhammad bin Saud, and Imam Muhammad bin Abdul-Wahhab in the year 1744. The...

emir of a Najdi town called Diriyah, Muhammad bin Saud, and the religious leader Muhammad ibn Abd al-Wahhab signed a pact to found a socio-religious reform...

al-Wahhab charted a religio-political pact with Muhammad bin Saud to help him to establish the Emirate of Diriyah, the first Saudi state, and began a dynastic...

opportunity to control the rule of Diriyah. Two decades after Saud's death, his son Muhammad bin Saud made his historic pact with Muhammad bin Abd al-Wahhab...

Outside Arabia they became known as Wahhabis. In the 1740s, he moved to Diriyah in Nejd, where Muhammad ibn Saud, founder of the Al Saud dynasty, was the...

preaching and educational efforts; state consolidation project of Emirate of Diriyah resulted in military conflicts with rival tribal chiefs. As a senior scholar...

to control much of the Arabian Peninsula in the form of the Emirate of Diriyah, the First Saudi State, until its destruction by an Ottoman army in the...

which it pursued unification with Hejaz since the time of the Emirate of Diriyah. Historic Najd was divided into three modern administrative regions still...

invade Al-Ahsa in the year 1798 AD in preparation for the march towards Diriyah. This campaign came in the wake of the collapse of the Thuwaini bin Abdullah...

become the Saudi royal family, known as the Al Saud, began at the town of Diriyah in Nejd in central Arabia with the accession as emir of Muhammad bin Saud...