Saif al-Arab
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Actually, it was the British that supported Saudis instead of traditional and more moderate Sharifs of Mecca, the Hashemites that are currently ruling not-so-radical Kingdom of Jordan:
One of the oldest dead civilizations on the planet, you mean?
I am a Hijazi Hashemite. Large parts of my family migrated abroad (other Arab countries and Europe) when KSA was created in 1932. Many of us never left though.
We are Shafi'is and that along with the Maliki maddhab still the two most popular madahib in Hijaz. Sufism is still present not that they don't have their share of baffling practices but it's the hipsters pick. I personally have nothing against them just like I have nothing against any Muslim sect. At most theological differences.
You are completely wrong. The House of Saud were never supported by the Brits or any Westerner. Their homeland (Najd) was never ruled by the West or anyone for that matter and they themselves conquered what is now KSA and unified it in 1932.
Unification of Saudi Arabia - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
It was the Hashemites who started the Arab revolt as a reaction to the Young Turk movement and growing Arab unhappiness with the Ottomans and the emerging hope of an Arab state (there were many Arab areas that were not under the control Ottomans but I am here mostly talking about Hijaz, Iraq, Levant (there heartland so to speak).
Brits supported that movement for their own gains. When the Ottomans were defeated during the Arab Revolt they did not stick to their deal (promise of 1 big Arab country from Syria to Yemen) and instead compensated by giving the throne in Syria, Iraq and Jordan to the Hashemites. That was after the Brits had left Hijaz on its own. The Kingdom of Hijaz was conquered by the House of Saud in 1925 and incorporate into the Sultanate of Najd. 7 years later what is now KSA was founded.
Ties with the West first emerged during the visit of US President Roosevelt in the early 1940's and Brits were not involved with that at all.
Britain has much closer historical ties to other Arab countries, South Asia (British India) than KSA. Even to this day KSA trade and ties are bigger/closer with France rather than the UK let alone the US.