Fahda bint Asi Al Shuraim

Umm Malik ( Queen Mother ) Princess Fahda bint Asi Al- Schuraim (Arabic فهدة بنت العاصي بن شريم الرشيد, DMG Fahda bt al - ʿ ASI B Šuraim Āl Sa ʿ ūd, .. † 1934) was the eighth wife of Abd al - Aziz ibn Abdul Rahman, also known as Ibn Saud, and had three children with him. She was descended from the tribe of Shammar and belonged to the royal family of Saudi Arabia.

The Shammar settled in the northern region of the Arabian Peninsula, Jordan, Syria, Iraq and Iran, and were up to their defeat on November 2, 1921 the bitterest opponents of the Saudi dynasty. Princess Fahdas father Sheikh al - Asi Schuraim was the leader of Abda - part tribe of the Shammar tribe fraction.

Of the tribe of Shammar, the former rivals of the Al Saud family, the Al Rashid originate (then the ruling family about the region of Jabal Shammar and the tribe of the Shammar based in Hail, today, the family Al Rashid, who in the family allowed al Saud marrying, only the heads of the Shammarstammes ) who were defeated by King Abd al - Aziz. Fahda was previously married to the tithes of the Emir Al Rashid clan, who in 1920 was killed by Saud.

Their first child with Saud is the reigning Saudi King Abdullah bin Abd al - Aziz.

Source

• 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

• Spouse of a famous person
• House of Saud
• Saudi Arab
• Born in the 19th or 20th century
• Died in 1934
• Woman