Fahda bint Asi Al Shuraim
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Fahda bint Asi Al Shuraim was the eighth wife of Ibn Saud and she had three children with him. She was born into the Abde section of the Shammar tribe, and she had first been married to the 10th Rashidi Emir, Saud, who was killed in 1920.
Her first child with Ibn Saud was Abdullah bin Abdul Aziz Al Saud, who is the current king of Saudi Arabia by succeeding to the throne on August 1, 2005, following the death of his half-brother, King Fahd. Her other two children with Ibn Saud were Nuf and Sita.
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- Madawi Al Rasheed: Politics in an Arabian oasis. The Rashidi Tribal Dynasty. I.B. Tauris & Co Ltd, London & New York 1991 (based on a Ph.D. thesis presented to Cambridge University, 1988). ISBN 1-85043-320-8
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