King of Saudi Arabia. Sheikh Abdallah I. Ibn Saud.

9/25/16
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Muhammad Al Saud, Abdallah, Sheikh, King, Saudi Arabia,
King of Saudi Arabia Muhammad Al Saud. Sheikh Abdallah I. ibn Saud.
King, Saudi Arabia Muhammad, Al Saud,
Later copy: Abdallah I. Ibn Saud (1740-1818)

Sketched from life by Sir J. Sutherland.

Sheikh Abdallah I. ibn Saud.

Sheikh Abdallah I. ibn Saud (1740-1818) from the House of Saud, ruled the First Saudi State and was Imam of the Wahhabi from 1814-1818. Beheaded at Constantinople (Istanbul, Byzanz) in 1818.

Source: An Account of the Transactions of His Majesty’s Mission to the Court of Persia, in the Years 1807-11: To which is appended a brief history of Wahauby. By Sir Harford Jones Brydges. Publisher: James Bohn, London 1834.

Sir Harford Jones Brydges (1764-1847) was an English diplomat and author, ambassador to the court of Fatḥ-ʿAlī Shah Qājār from 1807 to 1811.

Lieutenant James Sutherland (1784-1850), Bombay Infantry, was Engineer-Surveyor on the expedition. He was created Knight of the Lion and the Sun by the Shah in 1810.

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