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For Al-Ikhwan Al-Muslimun, see Muslim Brotherhood
Muslim Brotherhood

The Muslim Brothers is a transnational Sunni Islam movement and the largest political opposition organization in many Arab states, particularly Egypt....
. For the Kashmiri organization, see Ikhwan (Kashmir)
Ikhwan (Kashmir)

Ikhwan is the name of a pro-government militia in Jammu and Kashmir, composed of reformed militants who are mostly local Kashmiri men. They have been organised and supported by Indian security agencies to counter the terrorism groups operating in the state....
The Ikhwan (Arabic
Arabic language

Arabic is a Central Semitic language, thus related to and classified alongside other Semitic languages languages such as Hebrew language and Aramaic language....
 for brothers) was the Islamic religious militia which formed the main military force of the Arabian ruler Ibn Saud and played a key role in establishing him as ruler of most of the Arabian Peninsula
Arabian Peninsula

The Arabian Peninsula , Arabia, Arabistan, and the Arabian subcontinent is a peninsula in Southwest Asia at the junction of Africa and Asia. The area is an important part of the Middle East and plays a critically important geopolitics role because of its vast reserves of petroleum and natural gas....
, in his new state of Saudi Arabia
Saudi Arabia

The Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, KSA , is an Arab country and the largest country of the Arabian Peninsula. It is bordered by Jordan on the northwest, Iraq on the north and northeast, Kuwait, Qatar, Bahrain, and the United Arab Emirates on the east, Oman on the southeast, and Yemen on the south....
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For Al-Ikhwan Al-Muslimun, see Muslim Brotherhood
Muslim Brotherhood

The Muslim Brothers is a transnational Sunni Islam movement and the largest political opposition organization in many Arab states, particularly Egypt....
. For the Kashmiri organization, see Ikhwan (Kashmir)
Ikhwan (Kashmir)

Ikhwan is the name of a pro-government militia in Jammu and Kashmir, composed of reformed militants who are mostly local Kashmiri men. They have been organised and supported by Indian security agencies to counter the terrorism groups operating in the state....
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The Ikhwan (Arabic
Arabic language

Arabic is a Central Semitic language, thus related to and classified alongside other Semitic languages languages such as Hebrew language and Aramaic language....
 for brothers) was the Islamic religious militia which formed the main military force of the Arabian ruler Ibn Saud and played a key role in establishing him as ruler of most of the Arabian Peninsula
Arabian Peninsula

The Arabian Peninsula , Arabia, Arabistan, and the Arabian subcontinent is a peninsula in Southwest Asia at the junction of Africa and Asia. The area is an important part of the Middle East and plays a critically important geopolitics role because of its vast reserves of petroleum and natural gas....
, in his new state of Saudi Arabia
Saudi Arabia

The Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, KSA , is an Arab country and the largest country of the Arabian Peninsula. It is bordered by Jordan on the northwest, Iraq on the north and northeast, Kuwait, Qatar, Bahrain, and the United Arab Emirates on the east, Oman on the southeast, and Yemen on the south....
. The Ikhwan were made up of Bedouin
Bedouin

The Bedouin, , are predominantly Muslim, desert-dwelling Arab nomadic pastoralist, or previously nomadic group, found throughout most of the desert belt extending from the Atlantic coast of the Sahara via the Western Desert , Sinai Peninsula, and Negev to the Arabian Desert....
 tribes. This militant religious brotherhood was dedicated to the purification and the unification of Islam. This movement had aimed at breaking up the tribes and settling the Bedu around the wells and oases. They felt that the nomadic life was incompatatible with the strict conformity of Islam. Ibn Saud had risen to power on this movement. Later the Ikhwan rebelled when Ibn Saud forbade them to raid into neighbouring states. After the conquest of the Hejaz
Hejaz

al-Hejaz is a region in the west of present-day Saudi Arabia. Defined mostly by the Red Sea, it extends from Haql on the Gulf of Aqaba to Jizan....
 in 1926 brought all of the current Saudi state under Ibn Saud's control, the monarch found himself in some conflict with elements of the Ikhwan. He crushed their power at the Battle of Sabilla in 1930, following which the militia was reorganised into the Saudi Arabian National Guard
Saudi Arabian National Guard

The Saudi Arabian National Guard is one of five branches of the Saudi Arabian Military of Saudi Arabia. It serves both as defence force against external threats and as a security force against internal threats....
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