1964 Saudi Arabian coup d'état
Successful bloodless coup d'état
1964 Saudi Arabian coup d'état
The 1964 Saudi Arabian coup d'état was a bloodless palace coup in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia in which King Saud was deposed by his half-brother, Crown Prince Faisal, with the backing of the senior princes of the House of Saud and the kingdom's senior religious scholars, the ulema. The removal took place in stages: in February and March 1964 Faisal seized effective control of the government, leaving Saud with only the royal title, and in early November 1964 the royal family and religious leaders formally resolved to depose Saud and proclaim Faisal king. Saud left Saudi Arabia shortly afterward. The deposition followed a long-running struggle between the two brothers over Saud's mismanagement of the kingdom's finances and Faisal's program of cautious reform and modernization.
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