사우디아라비아의 왕권 승계:

The Succession of Saudi Arabia s Kingship:

On June 21, 2017, Saudi Arabia s King Salman has appointed his son, Mohammed bin Salman, as heir. This decision was endorsed by 31 out of 34 members of the Allegiance Council. It was an unconventional succession of kingship in modern Saudi Arabia since 1953, because the throne had been passed not linearly from father to son, but laterally from brother to brother until now. King Abdul Aziz, the founder of the modern Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, had designed his posthumous succession plan since the early 1920s. Saud, Faisal, and Khalid, among the princes with the qualities of a ruler, were preferred candidates for the Saudi kingship successions. In 1926, he appointed Saud and Faisal to the governors of the Najd and Hijaz provinces, respectively. And he also appointed Saud as his crown prince. In March 1964, about 70 princes resolved to remove King Saud s rights, wrote a petition for this resolution, and submitted it to Saud. By the end of 1964, leading senior princes decided to dethrone the kingship of Saud, and petitioned it to Ulamah and Majlis al-Wukala. They approved their petition to hand over power from Saud to the crown prince Faisal. On November 2, 1964, Saud was dethroned. This study analyses the 1964 Saudi Kingship succession process from Saud to Faisal, examining the factors which had contributed to the succession. It also deals with the power struggle between Saud and Faisal which had lead to the 1964 Saudi Kingship succession in 1964.