Saudi Arabia Head of state
King Salman bin Abdulaziz
الملك سلمان بن عبد العزيزKing of Saudi Arabia since 2015; head of the House of Saud. Formal head of state; day-to-day governance is largely run by Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman.
- Country
- Saudi Arabia
- Party
- Independent / unaligned
- Role
- Head of state
Individual position
Scored from King Salman bin Abdulaziz's own documents rather than inherited from a party — capturing where this figure diverges from the party line. Provisional, document-grounded estimate; see methodology.
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 Arabic 2021-09-22 Saudi Arabia — King Salman's address to the 76th UN General Assembly, September 2021 (“The Kingdom speech”, English text)
The essence of the Kingdom's Vision 2030 is to achieve prosperity, build a better future, and create a leading economy as well as dynamic society engaged with the world. Five years since the inception of Vision 2030, we…
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Speech Arabic 2019-05-30 King Salman bin Abdulaziz — Saudi monarchy doctrinal mosaic (charity-not-extremism 2002, Iran condemnation 2019)
From King Salman bin Abdulaziz Al Saud (b. 31 December 1935, 7th king of Saudi Arabia 23 January 2015 onward; Governor of Riyadh for 48 years before that; father of Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman; son of founder King…
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 Salman bin Abdulaziz [Politician profile]. Tayyar: A MENA political-position dataset. Retrieved June 21, 2026, from https://tarekgara.com/tayyar/pol/king-salman
Chicago author-dateCommon in political-science journals
Gara, Tarek. 2026. "King Salman bin Abdulaziz." Politician profile, Tayyar: A MENA political-position dataset. Accessed June 21, 2026. https://tarekgara.com/tayyar/pol/king-salman.
BibTeXFor LaTeX / Zotero / reference managers
@misc{tayyar-king-salman,
title = {{King Salman bin Abdulaziz}},
author = {Gara, Tarek},
year = {2026},
publisher = {Tayyar: A MENA political-position dataset},
type = {Politician profile},
url = {https://tarekgara.com/tayyar/pol/king-salman},
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.