The Grand Mosque seizure, also known as the Siege of Calamity, was a siege that took place between 20 November and 4 December 1979 at the Grand Mosque of...

National Guard. Religious insurgents who participated in the 1979 Grand Mosque seizure in Mecca referred to themselves as the 'al-Ikhwan', although with...

limited increased support for their armed forces in the wake of the Grand Mosque Seizure in 1979. In the 1980s Saudi Arabia became a major source of financial...

who led the Ikhwan during their Grand Mosque seizure in 1979. He and his followers besieged and took over the Grand Mosque of Mecca on 20 November 1979 (1...

regained a degree of prominence following the Grand Mosque Seizure. Al Saeed expressed public support for the seizure, which he described as a “people’s revolution...

Wall Street Journal correspondent Yaroslav Trofimov about the 1979 Grand Mosque seizure in Mecca. Hundreds of Islamic radicals led by Saudi preacher Juhayman...

claimed in a widespread Iranian radio broadcast that the then-ongoing Grand Mosque seizure in Saudi Arabia had been orchestrated by the United States and Israel...

civilians seized the Grand Mosque of Mecca and sought but failed to kidnap Khalid. Saudi forces regained control over the mosque, but the seizure resulted in the...

police forces in combating drug trafficking and criminals. After the Grand Mosque seizure in 1979 and the ineffectiveness of the Saudi Arabian National Guard...

years after the Islamic overthrow of the Shah of Iran and the seizure of the Grand Mosque by extremists, a number of observers (Olivier Roy, Mustafa Akyol...

the assault was conducted. Advising Saudi authorities during the Grand Mosque Seizure in Mecca, Saudi Arabia, in November and December 1979. Arrest of...

protests over allegations that the United States was involved in the Grand Mosque seizure in Mecca, Saudi Arabia. The United States had already withdrawn the...

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descendant, Juhayman al-Otaibi, would gain infamy in 1979 when he led the Grand Mosque Seizure. From 1927 to 1932, Ibn Saud administered the two main portions of...

years after the Islamic overthrow of the Shah of Iran and the seizure of the Grand Mosque by extremists, a number of observers (Olivier Roy, Mustafa Akyol...

February 2011. Riyadh (10 January 1980). "63 Zealots beheaded for seizing Mosque". Pittsburgh Post-Gazette. Archived from the original on 11 May 2017. Retrieved...

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Muslim world in the aftermath of the 1973 oil crisis and also the Grand Mosque seizure which occurred in late 1979 amidst the revival; both of these events...

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ISBN 978-0-385-51925-0). A "gripping" historical account of the Grand Mosque Seizure in Mecca in 1979 by the precursors of Al Qaeda. The book was a finalist...

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erroneously led to believe that the U.S. was responsible for the Grand Mosque seizure in Mecca, stormed and set fire to the U.S. Embassy in Islamabad,...

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by his three surviving sons and nephews. History of Bahrain 1979 Grand Mosque seizure Siege of Mecca (692) Daftary 1990, p. 160. Halm 1996, p. 255. Halm...

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clerics that the deal the royal family struck with them after the Grand Mosque seizure was to be renegotiated. Building an industrial culture was seen as...

himself. After Khomeini claimed that Americans were behind the 1979 Grand Mosque seizure, student protesters from the Quaid-e-Azam University in Islamabad...