Saudi Arabia Head of state
King Abdullah bin Abdulaziz
عبد الله بن عبد العزيزKing of Saudi Arabia 2005-2015 (1924-2015). De facto ruler from 1995 when his half-brother King Fahd suffered a stroke. Oversaw cautious modernization including the King Abdullah University of Science and Technology and the early stages of women's rights reforms.
- Country
- Saudi Arabia
- Party
- Independent / unaligned
- Role
- Head of state
- Status
- Historical figure
Position
2 source documents on file for King Abdullah bin Abdulaziz (below). A document-grounded individual position is being scored from them; until that passes review no compass point is shown, rather than imply a precision the dataset doesn't yet have.
Source documents
Texts tied to this politician — speeches, interviews, op-eds. The scoring pipeline reads these when scoring positions against documents. All documents →
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Speech English 2008-03-24 King Abdullah bin Abdulaziz of Saudi Arabia — speech launching his interfaith-dialogue initiative, ~March 2008 (per AP): a call for dialogue among Muslims, Christians and Jews, putting "the Quran, the Torah and the Bible" on common ground, with his senior clerics' backing. [Second doc — distinct INTERFAITH / religion-and-society axis, vs his Arab Peace Initiative doc.]
That is an unacceptable behavior to all religions, to the Quran, the Torah and the Bible. We ask God to save humanity. There is a lack of ethics, loyalty and sincerity for our religions and humanity.
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Speech English 2002-03-28 King Abdullah bin Abdulaziz of Saudi Arabia (as Crown Prince) — the Arab Peace Initiative, Beirut Arab League Summit, 28 March 2002 (official UN/Arab League text): full Israeli withdrawal from the territories occupied since 1967 + a sovereign Palestinian state with East Jerusalem as capital + a just refugee solution, in return for full Arab normalization and comprehensive peace with Israel.
Having heard the statement in which His Royal Highness Prince Abdullah bin Abdul-Aziz, Crown Prince of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, presented his Initiative and called for Israel’s full withdrawal from all the Arab…
How to cite
Each record carries a retrieval date because the dataset is live — individual entries update as verification deepens. Use the per-record citation when referencing this specific profile; use the dataset citation below when referencing the project as a whole.
In-text: (Gara, 2026)
Per-record citation
APA 7Reference list · academic default
Gara, T. (2026). King Abdullah bin Abdulaziz [Politician profile]. Tayyar: A MENA political-position dataset. Retrieved August 6, 2026, from https://tarekgara.com/tayyar/pol/king-abdullah
Chicago author-dateCommon in political-science journals
Gara, Tarek. 2026. "King Abdullah bin Abdulaziz." Politician profile, Tayyar: A MENA political-position dataset. Accessed August 6, 2026. https://tarekgara.com/tayyar/pol/king-abdullah.
BibTeXFor LaTeX / Zotero / reference managers
@misc{tayyar-king-abdullah,
title = {{King Abdullah bin Abdulaziz}},
author = {Gara, Tarek},
year = {2026},
publisher = {Tayyar: A MENA political-position dataset},
type = {Politician profile},
url = {https://tarekgara.com/tayyar/pol/king-abdullah},
urldate = {2026-08-06},
note = {First-pass entry; second-pass external review planned before publication.}
} Dataset / working-paper citation
If you're citing Tayyar as a project rather than this individual record.
APA 7Preprint
Gara, T. (2026). Tayyar: A MENA political-position dataset [Preprint]. Retrieved August 6, 2026, from https://tarekgara.com/tayyar/paper
BibTeXPreprint
@unpublished{tayyar-preprint,
title = {{Tayyar: A MENA political-position dataset}},
author = {Gara, Tarek},
year = {2026},
type = {Preprint},
url = {https://tarekgara.com/tayyar/paper},
urldate = {2026-08-06},
note = {Living document, regenerated from the live dataset on page load.}
} First-pass entry; second-pass external review planned before publication.