Khalid

Khalid
/khah leed", kah-, khal"id, kal"-/, n. (Khalid ibn Abdul-Aziz al Saud)
1913-82, king of Saudi Arabia 1975-82 (son of ibn-Saud and brother of Faisal).

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▪ king of Saudi Arabia
in full  Khālid Ibn ʿabd Al-ʿazīz As-saʿūd  
born 1913, Riyadh, Arabia [now in Saudi Arabia]
died June 13, 1982, Taʾif, Saudi Arabia

      king of Saudi Arabia (1975–82), who succeeded his half brother Fayṣal as king when Fayṣal was assassinated in 1975. A moderate influence in Middle East politics and a relatively retiring man, he left much of the administration of the country to his half brother Prince Fahd, who became his successor.

      Born in Riyadh when it was a small desert town, Khālid became the closest supporter of his brothers Saʿūd and Fayṣal. When he was 14, his father Ibn Saʿūd, founder of the Saudi kingdom, sent him as his representative to the desert tribes to hear their grievances. In 1934 he took part in the Saudi expedition against Yemen led by his brother Fayṣal, and afterward he was regarded as a “man of the desert,” more at home with desert pursuits than with politics or diplomacy.

      In 1939 he left Arabia for the first time to take part in the abortive London conference on Palestine. He hastened to return and, unlike most of his brothers, he never pursued higher-educational studies abroad. He concerned himself with the problems of the Bedouin and took a special interest in desert-reclamation projects through the use of groundwater. When in Riyadh, he devoted himself to charitable work. His modest and self-effacing personality, coupled with his reputation for calm reason, made him the chief conciliator in the disputes that arose among the large family of royal princes. Such qualities led to his appointment as crown prince, in preference to his more forceful and ambitious brothers Fahd and Sultan, when King Saʿūd was deposed in November 1964 and was succeeded by Fayṣal.

      From 1970, illness inhibited his role in public life and cast doubt on his eventual succession to the throne. However, he did take over following Fayṣal's assassination and was welcomed as a figure who enjoyed much popularity, especially with the Bedouin. He reacted moderately to Egyptian President Anwar el-Sādāt's Israeli peace initiative and benefited from the success of the 1979 visit to his country of Queen Elizabeth II and his return visit to the United Kingdom in 1981.

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