Abd Allah ibn Salih al-Uthaymin
- Died
- 1436 AH
- Born in
- -
Abd Allah ibn Salih al-Uthaymin (d. 1436 AH / 2015 CE) was a Saudi historian and academic who served as head of the Department of History at King Saud University and authored works on the history of Saudi Arabia and the Arabian Peninsula .
Academic Career and Research
Al-Uthaymin pursued an academic career in modern history, serving as the head of the Department of History at the College of Arts in King Saud University (formerly the University of Riyadh) . His research focused extensively on the political and religious history of the Najd region and the modern Saudi state, including his multi-volume study Tarikh al-Mamlaka al-Arabiyya al-Sa'udiyya (History of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia) . He also contributed specialized academic studies on the reform movement in Najd, including his treatise An al-Rasa'il al-Shakhsiyya lil-Shaykh Muhammad bin Abd al-Wahhab (On the Personal Letters of Shaykh Muhammad ibn Abd al-Wahhab), published as part of the proceedings of the symposium on the life and teachings of Muhammad ibn Abd al-Wahhab .
Historical Methodology and Reception
In 1981, the Deanship of Library Affairs at the University of Riyadh published his monograph Nash'at Imarat Al Rashid (The Emergence of the Emirate of Al Rashid) . The scholar Ibn Aqil al-Zahiri characterized the work as a pioneering study in regional history for its rigorous textual analysis, noting al-Uthaymin's methodology of utilizing vernacular Nabati poetry and foreign historical accounts alongside traditional chronicles, while maintaining historical deduction as his primary objective .
Answer updated
List of Works
'An al-Rasa'il al-Shakhsiyya lil-Shaykh Muhammad bin 'Abd al-Wahhab (On the Personal Letters of Shaykh Muhammad ibn Abd al-Wahhab) is an academic research treatise that examines the epistolary corpus of Muhammad ibn Abd al-Wahhab. It analyzes the textual authenticity, literary styles, and historical insights provided by his personal letters regarding the religious and political landscape of eighteenth-century Najd.