Sa'd ibn Junaydil

Sa'd bin Abdullah al-Junaydil, commonly known as Sa'd ibn Junaydil (; 1915 – 20 June 2006), was a Saudi Arabian historical geographer. Alongside Hamad Al-Jassir, Muhammad al-Ubudi and Abd al-Rahman al-Ansari, he is considered one of the first Saudi geographers in the 20th century. Al-Junaydil was born in Shaqra, Najd and graduated from King Saud University in 1972. He worked as a merchant, schoolteacher and headteacher until the 1970s. He had an interest in Najdi folklore, collecting artifacts and wrote several dictionaries and geographical encyclopedias from the 1970s until he died in Taif at the age of 87.

Biography Sa'd bin Abdullah bin Ibrahim Al-Junaydil was born in 1915 in Shaqra, Emirate of Nejd and Hasa. He began his studies at the old schools and kuttabs under ulema, studied the Qur'an, tafsirs and hadith and obtained an elementary certificate in his hometown. He worked in agriculture and trade with his father. His father was also a poet and had a library, and Al-Junaydil benefited greatly from his teachings. He started regular education late, as he was right-hand of his father in business.

Al-Junaydil continued his education in Dawadmi, southwest of his hometown, where his father had moved. In Dawadmi, he enrolled in the adult education system at the age of thirty, and obtained the intermediate certificate. In June 2011, Riyadh Municipality named a street after him in the Al-Sahafa neighborhood.

Works Al-Jandil wrote a number of multi-genre and topic books, which are: , three volumes, 1978 , , 1981 , 1980 , 1980 , 1978 , 1978 , 1998 , 1999 , 2004

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