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Najd

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Najd, region, Arabia: see Nejd Nejd (nĕjd) or Najd
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Nejd

 or Najd

Region of central Saudi Arabia. Comprising a rocky plateau sloping eastward from the mountains of the Hejaz, it is sparsely settled, except for a few fertile oases. In the mid-18th century it became the centre of the Wahhabi, members of a puritanical Islamic movement that by 1803 had expanded into Mecca. Nejd has been under the rule of the Sa'ud dynasty almost continuously since 1824. It was united with the Hejaz and became the independent kingdom of Saudi Arabia in 1932.



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21) No one will ever be able to prove conclusively that pre-modern Najd of Egypt's Western Desert breed societies similar or identical to those of pre-Islamic Arabia.
The attack was successful and the youthful victor, Abd al Aziz bin Abd ar Rahrnan Al Sand, launched other campaigns to reestablish the dominion of the House of Saud throughout Najd in Central Arabia.
This is an Arab night The massacre killed time before the summit meeting I accuse the leader of Najd and his underling The pimp of Syria and his dodo-bird The judge of Baghdad and his testicle The King of Syphilis Little Hassan the Second The fat and filthy rat in the Sudan The one sitting under the square root sign on the sands of Dubai, wrapped up in his robe And the one in Tunis, all bent and crooked from head to toe.
 
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