death_date birth_date reign father house death_place title coronation spouse image name predecessor succession birth_place issue type successor mother religion article_title
9 november 1953 15 january 1876 14 1926 -- 23 september 1932 august 1932 -- 9 november 1953 8 january abdul rahman bin faisal house of saud taif , saudi arabia king of saudi arabia 22 september 1932 wadhah al al sheikh lulua bint salih al dakhil al jawhara bint bint musaed al jiluwi lajah bint khalid bin hithlayn bazza muhammad i jawhara bint saad bin abdul muhsin al sudairi hassa bin al sudairi shahida fahda bint asi al shuraim bazza ii ` haya bint sa'ad al sudair bushra munaiyir mudhi nouf bint aqab al shalan saida al yamaniyah khadra baraka al yamaniyah futayma tarfa mudhi bint abdullah almandeel al khalidi possibly other wives bint abdullah abd al-aziz ibn saud1927.jpg abdulaziz ibn saud '' himself as sultan of nejd himself as king of nejd and hejaz '' king of saudi arabia king of nejd and hejaz riyadh , emirate of nejd prince prince latifa muhammad king khalid prince nasser prince sa'ad prince mansour turki king fahd prince bandar prince musa'id king abdullah prince abdul of muhsin prince misha'al crown prince sultan prince abdul rahman prince najd mutaib prince talal prince mishari prince badr prince turki the king sudairi prince nawwaf crown prince nayef prince fawwaz king salman saud prince majid prince thamir prince abdul illah prince mamdouh prince king sattam prince ahmed prince abdul majeed prince hathloul prince mashhur faisal crown prince muqrin prince hamoud princess al bandari princess sultana crown princess luluwah princess al jawhara princess haya princess seeta princess monarch saud '' himself as king of saudi arabia '' sarah al sudairi sunni islam ibn saud

ibn saud

abdulaziz ibn abdul rahman ibn faisal ibn turki ibn abdullah ibn muhammad al saud -lrb- , ; 15 january 1876 -- 9 november 1953 -rrb- , usually known within the arab world as abdulaziz and usually known outside it as ibn saud , was the first monarch and founder of saudi arabia , the third saudi state .
he reconquered his family 's ancestral home city of riyadh in 1902 , touching off three decades of conquests that left him the ruler of nearly all of central arabia .
he consolidated his control over the najd in 1922 , then conquered the hejaz in 1925 .
he united his dominions into the kingdom of saudi arabia in 1932 .
as king , he presided over the discovery of petroleum in saudi arabia in 1938 and the beginning of large-scale oil production after world war ii .
he fathered many children , including 45 sons , and all of the subsequent kings of saudi arabia .
