Abdullah bin Abdullah Al Saud ( ar, عبد الله بن عبد الله آل سعود, ʿAbd Allāh ibn ʿAbd Allāh Āl Suʿūd; born July 1843) was a member of the Al Thunayan family, a branch of the

House of Saud The House of Saud ( ar, آل سُعُود, ʾĀl Suʿūd ) is the ruling royal family of Saudi Arabia. It is composed of the descendants of Muhammad bin Saud, founder of the Emirate of Diriyah, known as the First Saudi state (1727–1818), ...

. He was a son of

Abdullah bin Thunayan Abdullah bin Thunayan Al Saud (عبد الله بن ثنيان بن إبراهيم آل سعود; died July 1843) was Emir of Nejd from 1841 to May 1843. He is the sole member of the Al Thunayan branch of the Al Saud who became emir. Early years ...

Emir of Nejd The Emirate of Nejd or Imamate of Nejd was the Second Saudi State, existing between 1824 and 1891 in Nejd, the regions of Riyadh and Ha'il of what is now Saudi Arabia. Saudi rule was restored to central and eastern Arabia after the Emirate of D ...

. Relatively little is known of the life of Abdullah bin Abdullah. Abdullah was born in July 1843, on the day his father died. As an adult, he made attempts to rebuild the

Second Saudi State The Emirate of Nejd or Imamate of Nejd was the Second Saudi State, existing between 1824 and 1891 in Nejd, the regions of Riyadh and Ha'il of what is now Saudi Arabia. Saudi rule was restored to central and eastern Arabia after the Emirate of D ...

that his ancestors had ruled over. Abdullah eventually ended up in the

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capital of

Constantinople la, Constantinopolis ota, قسطنطينيه , alternate_name = Byzantion (earlier Greek name), Nova Roma ("New Rome"), Miklagard/Miklagarth ( Old Norse), Tsargrad ( Slavic), Qustantiniya (Arabic), Basileuousa ("Queen of Cities"), Megalopolis ( ...

, where he ostensibly spent the rest of his life. Abdullah married a

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Circassian woman and had six children. He was the father of

Ahmed bin Abdullah Al Thunayan Ahmed bin Abdullah Al Thunayan (1889–1923) was a Turkish-born Saudi royal and government official who was one of the advisors to Abdulaziz, Emir of Nejd, who later founded the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. He was the paternal uncle of Iffat Al Thun ...

, advisor to

King Abdulaziz of Saudi Arabia Abdulaziz bin Abdul Rahman Al Saud ( ar, عبد العزيز بن عبد الرحمن آل سعود, ʿAbd al ʿAzīz bin ʿAbd ar Raḥman Āl Suʿūd; 15 January 1875Ibn Saud's birth year has been a source of debate. It is generally accepted ...

(founder of the

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, the Kingdom of

Saudi Arabia Saudi Arabia, officially the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia (KSA), is a country in Western Asia. It covers the bulk of the Arabian Peninsula, and has a land area of about , making it the List of Asian countries by area, fifth-largest country in Asia ...

). Through his son Mohammad, Abdullah was the grandfather of

Iffat bint Mohammad Al Thunayan Iffat bint Mohammad Al Thunayan ( ar, عفت بنت محمد الثنيان ''ʿIffat bint Moḥammad Āl Ṯunayān'', tr, İffet bint Muhammed es Saniyan; 1916 – 17 February 2000) was a Turkish-born education activist and Saudi princess wh ...

, the consort of King Faisal. Queen Iffat was a prominent education activist in Saudi Arabia.

Life

Abdullah bin Abdullah Al Saud was the son of

from 1841 to 1843. Abdullah bin Thunayan became emir after overthrowing his cousin

Khalid bin Saud Khalid (variants include Khaled and Kalid; Arabic: خالد) is a popular Arabic male given name meaning "eternal, everlasting, immortal", and it also appears as a surname.Faisal bin Turki, who imprisoned him in

Al Masmak fort The Masmak Fort ( ar, translit=Qaṣr al-Maṣmak, قصر المصمك), also called the Masmak Fortress or Masmak Palace, is a clay and mudbrick fort in ad-Dirah, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. Built in 1865 for prince 'Abdurrahman ibn Sulaiman AlDabaan ...

. Emir Abdullah died in July of that year. One of his sons was born the same day he died, and was therefore named Abdullah after his father. In 1879 Abdullah bin Abdullah headed to

, hoping to gain control over territory in the Al-Hasa region which the

Ottomans The Ottoman Turks ( tr, Osmanlı Türkleri), were the Turkic founding and sociopolitically the most dominant ethnic group of the Ottoman Empire ( 1299/1302–1922). Reliable information about the early history of Ottoman Turks remains scarce, ...

had seized from his Al Saud relatives. While he was going towards Constantinople he sought the support of British authorities in Damascus and

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, among other places, but nothing came of this. Little is known about Abdullah after he reached Constantinople in August 1880, where he became known as ''Abdullah

Pasha Pasha, Pacha or Paşa ( ota, پاشا; tr, paşa; sq, Pashë; ar, باشا), in older works sometimes anglicized as bashaw, was a higher rank in the Ottoman political and military system, typically granted to governors, generals, dignita ...

'' ( ar, عبد الله باشا ''ʿAbd Allāh Bāshā'').

Family

While he was in Constantinople, Abdullah married a Circassian woman named Tazeruh. Together they had four children, Mohammad Saud, the twins

Ahmed Ahmad ( ar, أحمد, ʾAḥmad) is an Arabic male given name common in most parts of the Muslim world. Other spellings of the name include Ahmed and Ahmet. Etymology The word derives from the root (ḥ-m-d), from the Arabic (), from the v ...

and Al Jawhara, and Sulaiman. Abdullah also had two sons from a second marriage named Abdul Rahman and Abdul Qadir. Abdullah's son Mohammad became a physician in the

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and was the father of

Queen Iffat Iffat bint Mohammad Al Thunayan ( ar, عفت بنت محمد الثنيان ''ʿIffat bint Moḥammad Āl Ṯunayān'', tr, İffet bint Muhammed es Saniyan; 1916 – 17 February 2000) was a Turkish-born education activist and Saudi princess wh ...

, the wife of King Faisal. Another of his sons, Ahmed, was an advisor to

King Abdulaziz Abdulaziz bin Abdul Rahman Al Saud ( ar, عبد العزيز بن عبد الرحمن آل سعود, ʿAbd al ʿAzīz bin ʿAbd ar Raḥman Āl Suʿūd; 15 January 1875Ibn Saud's birth year has been a source of debate. It is generally accepted ...

References

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1843 births

Sons of monarchs Year of death missing