First Saudi state
Emirate of Diriyah إِمَارَةُ الدِّرْعِيَّةِ (Arabic) | |||||||||||||||||||||
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| 1744–1818 | |||||||||||||||||||||
Map of the first Saudi state in 1810. Legend: | |||||||||||||||||||||
| Status | Emirate | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Capital | Diriyah | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Common languages | Arabic | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Religion | Wahhabi Islam | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Government | Monarchy | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Emir | |||||||||||||||||||||
• 1744–1765 | Muhammad bin Saud | ||||||||||||||||||||
• 1765–1803 | Abdulaziz bin Muhammad | ||||||||||||||||||||
• 1803–1814 | Saud bin Abdulaziz | ||||||||||||||||||||
• 1814–1818 | Abdullah bin Saud | ||||||||||||||||||||
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• Diriyah established | 1744 | ||||||||||||||||||||
| 1744 | |||||||||||||||||||||
| 1818 | |||||||||||||||||||||
| Currency | Diriyah Riyal | ||||||||||||||||||||
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The first Saudi state (Arabic: الدَّوْلَةُ السُّعُودِيَّةُ الْأُولَىٰ, romanized: ad-dawla as-suʿūdiyya al-ʾūlā), officially the Emirate of Diriyah (Arabic: إمارة الدرعية, romanized: ʾimāra ad-dirʿiyya), was a polity that existed on the Arabian Peninsula between 1744 and 1818. The emir of a Najdi town called Diriyah, Muhammad bin Saud Al Muqrin, and the religious leader Muhammad ibn Abd al-Wahhab signed a pact founding a socio-religious reform movement that propagated the Wahhabi religious doctrine under the political leadership of the House of Saud.