Najd The Cursed Region Where The Devil has Stood to Destroy Islam from Within – As Fore Told By Prophet Muhammad sal lal laho alyhe waslam 1.britannica/EBchecked/topic/401967/Najd "Najd, also spelled Nejd, region, central Saudi Arabia, comprising a mainly rocky plateau sloping eastward from the mountains of the Hejaz. On the northern, eastern, and southern sides, it is bounded by the sand deserts of Al-Nafūd, Al-Dahnāʾ, and the Rubʿ al-Khali. It is sparsely settled, except for the fertile oases strung along the escarpment of Jabal (mountains) Ṭuwayq and the Al-ʿAramah plateau. The arid region remained politically divided among rival peoples until the mid-18th century, when it became the centre of the Wahhābī, a fundamentalist Islamic movement. Led by the Muslim scholar Muḥammad ibn ʿAbd al-Wahhāb and the Āl Saʿūd family, the movement consolidated Najd and expanded into Mecca in 1803. This expansionist policy antagonized the Ottomans, who seized the provincial capital of Al-Dirʿiyyah. The Āl Saʿūd, however, quickly regained control, and, with Riyadh as the new capital from 1824, the dynasty has ruled Najd continuously, save for a brief period around the turn of the century when the Rashīd dynasty extended its power over the province. Ibn Saʿūd proclaimed the unified Kingdom of Saudi Arabia in 1932, and his provincial capital of Riyadh became the national capital, although Jiddah continued as the diplomatic capital. Oases groups within Najd region include Al-Kharj, Al-Maḥmal, Al-Sudayr, Al-Washm, Al-ʿĀriḍ, Al-Qaṣīm, and Jabal Shammar." 2.SOURCE GOVERNMENT OF SAUDI ARABIA GEOGRAPHY AND CLIMATE WEBSITE saudiarabia-chm.gov.sa/climate.htm Geography : The Kingdom of Saudi Arabia is about 1,969,000 km2 occupying four-fifths of the Arabian Peninsula. It is the tenth largest country covering 1.64% of the land area of the world, and 8% of the land area of Asia. The Kingdom extends from 32º 12′ N latitude on the Jordanian border in the north to 16º 00′ N at the Yemeni border in the south. It is bounded by the Red Sea in the west and the Arabian Gulf in the east. Western Saudi Arabia is dominated by a mountain chain running the entire length of the country, known as the Hijjaz and Asir mountains. It runs parallel to the Red sea and rises to between 1300 – 3000 m. above the Tihamah coastal plain to its west. The flat coastal plain along the edge of the Red sea is hot and humid with temperature reaching 45º C in the shade during the summer months, with 90% relative humidity. The winter is considerably cooler but due to the relative warmth of the sea, it is never cold. From this fertile crest it falls towards the east as a desert plateau to the dry interior or the Najd containing the Dahna and Nafud which extends to the great sand desert of the Rub Al Khali (The Empty Quarter). From the Dahna dunes to the east coast the terrain alternate between rocky outcrops and gravel plains. The eastern region lies on the Arabian Gulf coast and contains salt flats (sabkhahs). There are many artesian wells along the coast which are used to irrigate large areas under cultivation around Hofuf and Qatif. 3.news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/country_profiles/791936.stm Country profile: Saudi Arabia
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