# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/faisal-of-saudi-arabia
# Generated: 2026-09-01T20:46:16.316Z

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name: "Faisal of Saudi Arabia"
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description: "He outlawed slavery, led the 1973 oil embargo that shocked the West, and died by his nephew's gun in the palace. Faisal ruled Saudi Arabia through the decade that made it a petrostate power."
tagline: "King of Saudi Arabia from 1964 to 1975"
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birthDate: "1906-04-14"
deathDate: "1975-03-25"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Born in Riyadh in 1906, Faisal bin Abdulaziz was the third son of the kingdom's founder and a mother from the Al ash-Sheikh family that supplied the country's religious authority. He entered statecraft early: viceroy of Hejaz at twenty, foreign minister at twenty-four. When his half-brother Saud took the throne in 1953, Faisal became crown prince and abolished slavery. By 1964 he'd manoeuvred Saud into abdication with the backing of the royal family and the Grand Mufti. As king he pushed modernisation while reining in the clerics, advanced pan-Islamism and opposition to communism, and in 1973 wielded the oil weapon against nations supporting Israel — triggering a global crisis that redrew economic maps. On 25 March 1975, his nephew Faisal bin Musaid shot him dead in the palace. Khalid, another half-brother, inherited the throne.