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Portrait of King Faisal bin Abdulaziz SA flag

SA flag Saudi Arabia Head of state

King Faisal bin Abdulaziz

الملك فيصل بن عبد العزيز
Head of state Inactive Verified

Third king of Saudi Arabia (1964-1975), assassinated by his nephew in 1975. The most influential 20th-century Saudi monarch: architect of the "Palestine more valuable than oil" doctrine that underpinned the 1973 oil embargo, the "our constitution is the Quran" foundational framing, and the cautious modernization (girls' education) that defines Saudi-state doctrine to this day.

Country
Saudi Arabia
Party
Independent / unaligned
Role
Head of state
Status
Historical figure

Position

1 source document on file for King Faisal bin Abdulaziz (below). A document-grounded individual position is being scored from it; 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 →

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 Faisal bin Abdulaziz [Politician profile]. Tayyar: A MENA political-position dataset. Retrieved June 21, 2026, from https://tarekgara.com/tayyar/pol/faisal-sa
Chicago author-dateCommon in political-science journals 
Gara, Tarek. 2026. "King Faisal bin Abdulaziz." Politician profile, Tayyar: A MENA political-position dataset. Accessed June 21, 2026. https://tarekgara.com/tayyar/pol/faisal-sa.
BibTeXFor LaTeX / Zotero / reference managers 
@misc{tayyar-faisal-sa,
  title     = {{King Faisal bin Abdulaziz}},
  author    = {Gara, Tarek},
  year      = {2026},
  publisher = {Tayyar: A MENA political-position dataset},
  type      = {Politician profile},
  url       = {https://tarekgara.com/tayyar/pol/faisal-sa},
  urldate   = {2026-06-21},
  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 June 21, 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 = {2026-06-21},
  note   = {Living document, regenerated from the live dataset on page load.}
}

First-pass entry; second-pass external review planned before publication.