| A timeline of the arabs | Al-Rehani: Nejd and its followers |
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| The Mission and Saudi Arabia | University College of Wales, Aberystwyth |
Ibn Ishaq Sirat Rasul Allah, pp.
| Lacey observes, "Forty is the number which bedouin often pick upon when they wish to describe a smallish body of men, and forty is the number of companions which Abdul Aziz is said to have had with him when he left Kuwait in September 1901 | 41 Lacey offers further insight into the ambiguity surrounding the details of the capture of Riyadh, whose place in Saudi Arabian folklore he compares to the : Ibn Saud himself told numerous versions over the years, which is only partly attributable to Ibn Saud's excitability |
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| Cambridge, England, UK: Cambridge University Press, 2002 | British Journal of Middle Eastern Studies |
Gold, Dore, Hatred's Kingdom, Regnery Publishing, 2003 , p.
21| A History of Saudi Arabia | Rank and file Ikhwan fighters formed units in a new military institution, initially the White Army, eventually the National Guard |
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| The History of Saudi Arabia |