He was forty years old, a family man, and a respected merchant in Mecca, a thriving commercial city in the Hijaz.

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Treaty talks came to nothing, and the British withdrew their protection, opening the way for Ibn Saud, the king of the Nejd, to conquer Hussein's kingdom of Hijaz in 1924, and launch Wahhabi rule over Saudi Arabia.

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