Emirate of Diriyahball

Great Emirate of Diriyahball : إمارة الدرعية الكبرى
↓ ↓ 1727 – 1818
General information
Government	Emirate
Language(s)	Arabic
Type	Semitic Arab
Capital	Diriyahball
Religion	Islam Sunni
Relations and opinions
Friends	Wahhabism
Enemies	Ottoman Empireball Kuwaitball Omani Empireball
Likes	Sunni, Muhammad ibn Abd al-Wahhab, Arabs, Desert, Horses, Camels, Dates, Makkah, Muhammad, Allah, Halal-things
Dislikes	Ottomans, Egypt, Shia, Haram things
Historical information
Preceded by	Sheikhdom of Diriyahball Bani Khalidball Sharifate of Meccaball
Succeeded by	Ottoman Empireball Emirate of Nejdball

Emirate of Diriyahball was the first Saudi Stateball in what was now  Saudi Arabiaball. In 1744 it was guided by Wahhab's teachings. It was known for anschlussing Arabia and launched tons of raids in the name of Allah (god) against its neighbors such as Kuwaitball, Omani Empireball, and Ottomanball, the latter gaining furious and killing it in 1818. Nonetheless, it got revived as the second Saudi state in 1824.

History

Diriyahball was founded in 1446 by Sheikh Mani' ibn Rabi'a al-Muraydi who brought up clay and developed the city. His descendants being his successors as local rulers would later become that of the Saudi dynasty.

The emergence of the Saudi dynasty began in central Arabia in 1727. In 1744, Muhammad ibn Saud, the tribal ruler of the town of Ad-Dir'iyyah near Riyadh, joined forces with the religious leader Muhammad ibn Abd-al-Wahhab, the founder of the Wahhabi movement. This alliance, formed in the 18th century, provided the ideological impetus to Saudi expansion and remains the basis of Saudi Arabian dynastic rule today. Over the next 150 years, the fortunes of the Saud family rose and fell several times as Saudi rulers contended with Egypt, the Ottoman Empire, and other Arabian families for control of the peninsula.

The First Saudi State was established in 1727 in the area around Riyadh and briefly controlled most of the present-day territory of Saudi Arabia through conquests made between 1806 and 1815; these included Mecca (captured in 1806) and Medina (captured in April 1804). Concerned at the growing power of the Saudis, the Ottoman Sultan Mustafa IV instructed his viceroy in Egypt, Mohammed Ali Pasha, to reconquer the area. Ali sent his sons Tusun Pasha and Ibrahim Pasha, who were eventually successful in routing the Saudi forces in 1818, and destroyed the power of the Al Saud.