Summary: MBS is seeking to legitimise his power historiographically by portraying the “three states of Saudi Arabia” as a continuation of a glorious past.
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The Ikhwan issue resonated longer than it may have seemed. Juhayman al-Utaybi who seized the Great Mosque of Mecca in 1979 was the grandson of Sultan bin Bajad, one of the leaders of the Ikhwan. (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Juhayman_al-Otaybi)