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{{Short description|Saudi royal and official (1922–1992)}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=June 2023}}
{{Family name hatnote|lang=Arabic|[[Al Saud]]}}
{{Infobox royalty
| image        = File:Prince Musaid bin Abdul Rahman Al Saud.jpg
| alt          = Photograph of a middle-aged man facing right
| succession1  = [[Ministry of Interior (Saudi Arabia)|Minister of Interior]]
| reign1       = 1960
| reign-type1  = In office
| reg-type1    = Monarch
| regent1      = [[Saud of Saudi Arabia|Saud]]
{{labeldata|Prime&nbsp;Minister|Crown Prince Faisal bin Abdulaziz}}
| predecessor1 = [[Faisal bin Abdulaziz Al Saud]]
| successor1   = [[Abdul Muhsin bin Abdulaziz Al Saud]]
| succession   = [[Ministry of Finance (Saudi Arabia)|Minister of Finance]]
| reign        = {{nowrap|15 March 1962 – 14 October 1975}}
| reign-type   = In office
| reg-type     = Monarch
| regent       = {{ubl|Saud|Faisal|[[Khalid of Saudi Arabia|Khalid]]}}
{{labeldata|Prime&nbsp;Minister|{{ubl|King Saud|King Faisal|King Khalid}}}}
| predecessor  = [[Nawwaf bin Abdulaziz Al Saud]]
| successor    = [[Mohammed bin Ali Aba Al Khail]]
| full name    = Musaid bin Abdul Rahman bin Faisal
| dynasty      = [[House of Saud]]
| father       = [[Abdul Rahman bin Faisal Al Saud (1850–1928)|Abdul Rahman bin Faisal Al Saud]]
| mother       = Amsha bint Faraj Al Ajran Al Khalidi
| birth_date   = {{birth year|1922}}
| birth_place  = [[Riyadh]], [[Sultanate of Nejd]]
| death_date   = {{Death date and age|1992|1922}}
| death_place  = Riyadh, Saudi Arabia
}}
'''Musaid bin Abdul Rahman Al Saud''' ({{langx|ar|مساعد بن عبد الرحمن بن فيصل آل سعود}} ''Musāʿid bin ʿAbdur Raḥman Āl Saʿūd''; 1922 – 1992) was a Saudi Arabian statesman and official who served as the [[Saudi Arabian minister of interior]] in 1960 and as the [[Ministry of Finance (Saudi Arabia)|minister of finance]] from 1962 to 1975.<ref>{{cite news|author=Dana Adams Schmidt|title=Saudi Oil Money Put to New Uses: King and Faisal Build Public Welfare and Economy|access-date=30 August 2020|work=[[The New York Times]]|url=https://www.proquest.com/docview/116058604
|date=12 May 1962|id={{ProQuest|116058604}}}}</ref> A member of the [[House of Saud]], he was the son of [[Abdul Rahman bin Faisal Al Saud (1850–1928)|Abdul Rahman bin Faisal Al Saud]] and Amsha bint Faraj Al Ajran Al Khalidi. Prince Musaid was one of the younger half-brothers of [[King Abdulaziz]] and was one of the senior royals who shaped the succession of the rulers during his lifetime.<ref>{{cite journal|author=Nabil Mouline|title=Power and Generational Transition in Saudi Arabia|journal=Critique Internationale|volume=46|date=April–June 2010
|doi=10.3917/crii.046.0125}}</ref>
==Early life and education==
Musaid bin Abdul Rahman was born in Qasr Al Hukm, Riyadh,<ref>{{cite news|title="قصر الحكم" يحتفظ بأجمل الذكريات لأفراد الأسرة ... - جريدة الرياض|url=http://www.alriyadh.com/251317|access-date=26 October 2020|work=Al Riyadh|date=23 May 2007|language=ar}}</ref> around 1922.<ref name=jep>{{cite book|author=J. E. Peterson|title=Historical Dictionary of Saudi Arabia|date=2003|publisher=Scarecrow Press|page=100|edition=2nd
|location=Lanham, MD|isbn= 9780810827806|url=https://archive.org/details/historicaldictio0000pete/page/100/mode/2up?q=king+khalid+bin+abdulaziz}}</ref><ref name=aljaz>{{cite news|title=الأمير مساعد بن عبدالرحمن.. رجل العلم والإدارة|access-date=30 August 2020
|work=Al Jazirah|url=http://www.al-jazirah.com/2010/20101024/wo1.htm|date=24 October 2010|archive-date=23 March 2019|language=ar|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190323142121/http://www.al-jazirah.com/2010/20101024/wo1.htm}}</ref> He was the son of the former [[emir of Nejd]] Abdul Rahman bin Faisal and Amsha bint Faraj Al Ajran Al Khalidi.<ref name=qah>{{cite news|author=Rashid Saad Al Qahtani
|title=مساعد بن عبدالرحمن أمير الفكر والسياسة والإدارة|language=ar|url=http://www.arabicmagazine.com/arabic/notice_.aspx?Id=13|access-date=30 August 2020|work=Arabic Magazine}}</ref> He had a number of half-siblings from his father's other marriages.<ref>{{cite book|year=2013|page=12
|author=Alexei Vasiliev|author-link=Alexei Mikhailovich Vasiliev|title=King Faisal: Personality, Faith and Times|publisher=Saqi|location=London
|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=j0AhBQAAQBAJ&pg=PT12|isbn=978-0-86356-761-2}}</ref> One of them was King Abdulaziz and others, [[Muhammad bin Abdul Rahman Al Saud|Muhammad]], [[Abdullah bin Abdul Rahman Al Saud|Abdullah]], and Ahmed, served in the Saudi government.<ref>{{cite journal|author=Christopher Keesee Mellon|title=Resiliency of the Saudi Monarchy: 1745-1975|access-date=23 January 2021|date=May 2015
|hdl=10938/10663|url=https://scholarworks.aub.edu.lb/bitstream/handle/10938/10663/pj-1848.pdf?sequence=1|location=Beirut|journal=[[American University of Beirut]]|format=Master's Project}}</ref>
Prince Musaid attended the Mufirej school founded by Sheikh Abdul Rahman Al Mufirej in 1879 which was based in the Sheikh Abdullah bin Abdul Latif mosque in the Dukhna neighborhood of Riyadh.<ref name=jamal>{{cite web|title=من أعلام الراوي - خاص - مدارات ونقوش|language=ar
|url=https://www.jbhsc.ae/news/khaled-king|work=Jamal bin Howaireb Studies Center|access-date=13 September 2020|archive-date=7 June 2019
|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190607055152/http://www.jbhsc.ae/news/khaled-king}}</ref> His religious educators included Sheikh Saad bin Ateeq, Hamad bin Faris, Muhammad bin Abd al Latif, [[Muhammad ibn Ibrahim Al ash-Sheikh|Muhammad bin Ibrahim]], Ibn Sahman and others.<ref name=aljaz/> Several sources indicate that he was the only son of Abdul Rahman who received university-level education.<ref name=aljaz/><ref name=qah/><ref name=mar>{{cite news|script-title=ar:وفاة الأميرة تهاني والدة الأمير حسان بن مساعد بن عبدالرحمن آل سعود|access-date=30 August 2020|url=http://www.marsad.news/news/32899|date=31 March 2018|language=ar|work=Marsad News}}</ref>
==Career==
Prince Musaid held several governmental positions. He was among the advisors of King Abdulaziz and [[King Saud]].<ref name=aljaz/><ref name=ssh>{{cite book|author=Sharaf Sabri|title=The House of Saud in Commerce: A Study of Royal Entrepreneurship in Saudi Arabia|page=198|year=2001
|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=51Bb8Ix7xw8C&pg=PA198|location=Delhi|publisher=I. S. Publications|isbn=978-81-901254-0-6}}</ref> He was made the head of the bureau of grievances in 1954 when it was established.<ref name=marh>{{cite journal|author=Maren Hanson|title=The Influence of French Law on the Legal Development of Saudi Arabia|journal=[[Arab Law Quarterly]]|date=August 1987|volume=2|issue=3|pages=272–291
|jstor=3381697|doi=10.1163/157302587X00318}}</ref><ref name=cwh58>{{cite journal|author=Charles W. Harrington|title=The Saudi Arabian Council of Ministers|journal=[[The Middle East Journal]]|date=Winter 1958|volume=12|issue=1|pages=1–19|jstor=4322975}}</ref> His appointment was not announced in Saudi newspapers, but in a Bahraini newspaper, ''[[Al Qafilah]]'', on 12 November 1954.<ref name=cwh58/> The bureau was responsible for dealing with all complaints submitted by the citizens against any administrative action, including the examination of each complaint and suggesting the necessary steps to be taken.<ref>{{cite thesis|author=Hisham Mosely|title=The rule of the bureaucracy and the development of the kingdom of Saudi Arabia|url=http://hdl.handle.net/10211.2/4506|degree=MA|location=[[California State University, Northridge]]|date=June 1973
|hdl=10211.2/4506}}</ref> In 1955 the bureau became an independent unit, and its president, Prince Musaid, was promoted to the rank of minister.<ref name=marh/> It was based in Riyadh with a branch in [[Jeddah]].<ref>{{cite journal|author=Samir Shamma|title=Law and lawyers in Saudi Arabia|journal=[[International and Comparative Law Quarterly]]|date=July 1965|volume=14|doi=10.1093/iclqaj/14.3.1034|issue=3|pages=1034–1039
|jstor=757066}}</ref>
Prince Musaid was also the chief of Royal Diwan during the reign of King Saud and accompanied him in his state visit to the US in 1957.<ref>{{cite journal|author=Helmut Mejcher|title=King Faisal ibn Abdul Aziz Al Saud in the arena of world politics: A glimpse from Washington, 1950 to 1971|journal=[[British Journal of Middle Eastern Studies]]|year=2004|doi=10.1080/1353019042000203412|volume=31|issue=1|s2cid=218601838|pages=5–23}}</ref> In 1960 Prince Musaid briefly served as the [[Ministry of Interior (Saudi Arabia)|minister of interior]].<ref name=jep/> Then he was named as the [[Ministry of Finance (Saudi Arabia)|minister of finance]] on 15 March 1962, replacing his nephew [[Nawwaf bin Abdulaziz Al Saud|Prince Nawwaf]] in the post.<ref name=jep/><ref>{{cite journal|title=Chronology December 16, 1961-March 15, 1962|journal=The Middle East Journal|date=Spring 1962|volume=16|issue=2|page=207|jstor=4323471}}</ref> He was reappointed to the post on 31 October 1962, when the cabinet was formed by [[Faisal of Saudi Arabia|Crown Prince Faisal]].<ref>{{cite journal|jstor=4323557|title=Chronology September 16, 1962 – March 15, 1963
|journal=The Middle East Journal|date=Winter–Spring 1963|volume=17|issue=1–2|page=133}}</ref> On the request of Crown Prince, Prince Musaid identified the eligible members within the royal family to receive a [[stipend]] in 1963.<ref>{{cite journal|author=Mordechai Abir|title=The Consolidation of the Ruling Class and the New Elites in Saudi Arabia|journal=Middle Eastern Studies|date=April 1987|volume=23|issue=2
|pages=150–171|doi=10.1080/00263208708700697}}</ref> At the beginning of King Faisal's reign Prince Musaid became a member of the council, which had been established by the king to guide the succession issues.<ref>{{cite book|author=David Rundell|title=Vision or Mirage: Saudi Arabia at the Crossroads|publisher=[[Bloomsbury Publishing]]|year=2020|isbn=978-1-83860-594-0|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=0pLyDwAAQBAJ&pg=PT63
|page=63|location=London; New York}}</ref>
Prince Musaid's tenure as minister of finance ended on 14 October 1975<ref name=mof>{{cite web|title=Previous Ministers|archive-date=20 September 2020|url=https://www.mof.gov.sa/en/about/Pages/previousministers.aspx|website=Ministry of Finance|access-date=30 August 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200920023123/https://www.mof.gov.sa/en/about/Pages/previousministers.aspx}}</ref> when he was dismissed from the office by [[King Khalid]].<ref>{{cite book|author=Joseph A. Kechichian|author-link=Joseph A. Kechichian|title='Iffat Al Thunayan: an Arabian Queen|page=81|year=2014|url=https://archive.org/details/iffatalthunayana0000kech/page/80/mode/2up?q=finance+minister|publisher=Sussex Academic Press|isbn=9781845196851|location=Brighton}}</ref> He was replaced by [[Mohammed bin Ali Aba Al Khail]] in the post.<ref name=mof/> There is another report arguing that Prince Musaid requested to be removed from the post citing his health condition.<ref>{{cite thesis|author=Gary Samuel Samore|title=Royal Family Politics in Saudi Arabia (1953-1982)|url=https://www.proquest.com/docview/303295482|page=351|location=[[Harvard University]]|year=1984|degree=PhD|id={{ProQuest|303295482}}}}</ref> On the other hand, during the reign of King Khalid, Prince Musaid was one of the members of the inner family council which was led by King Khalid and included Prince Musaid's half-brother Prince Ahmed and his nephews [[Muhammad bin Abdulaziz Al Saud|Prince Mohammed]], [[Fahd of Saudi Arabia|Crown Prince Fahd]], [[Abdullah of Saudi Arabia|Prince Abdullah]], [[Sultan bin Abdulaziz Al Saud|Prince Sultan]], and [[Abdul Muhsin bin Abdulaziz Al Saud|Prince Abdul Muhsin]].<ref>{{cite journal
|author=Gulshan Dhahani|title=Political Institutions in Saudi Arabia|journal=International Studies|year=1980|volume=19|issue=1|pages=59–69
|s2cid=153974203|doi=10.1177/002088178001900104}}</ref>
==Personal life and death==
One of his spouses was Tahani bint Abdul Sattar Al Khatib who died in March 2018.<ref name=mar/><ref name=ssh/> She was the mother of Hassan bin Musaid.<ref name="mar"/> Prince Musaid's other sons are Abdullah (born 1945), Khalid, Faisal and Muhammad.<ref name=hasa>{{cite news
|title=بالصور.. أمير الرياض يؤدي صلاة الميت على الأميرة نورة بنت مساعد بن عبد الرحمن|url=https://www.hasanews.com/6381709.html|access-date=30 August 2020|work=Hasa News|date=25 July 2016|language=ar}}</ref><ref name=who>{{cite book|title=Who's Who in the Arab World 2007-2008|year=2007
|page=715|publisher=Publitec Publications|url=https://www.degruyter.com/document/doi/10.1515/9783110930047/html|doi=10.1515/9783110930047
|isbn=9783598077357|edition=18th|location=Beirut}}</ref> Of them Abdullah and Khalid are businessmen.<ref name=who/><ref>{{cite news|author=Alan D. Gray|title=Closer ties predicted result of visit from Saudi Prince|work=The Gazette|date=11 July 1974|access-date=24 January 2021
|url=https://www.newspapers.com/image/421774650/?terms=khalid_al_saud&match=1}}</ref> His daughter, Noura bint Musaed, married her cousin, Abdul Rahman bin Abdullah bin Abdul Rahman,<ref name=hasa/> who was one of the members of Al Saud Family Council established in June 2000 by Crown Prince Abdullah to discuss private issues.<ref>{{cite web|author=Simon Henderson|title=After King Abdullah: Succession in Saudi Arabia
|url=http://www.washingtoninstitute.org/policy-analysis/view/after-king-abdullah-succession-in-saudi-arabia|work=The Washington Institute
|access-date=27 May 2012|date=August 2009}}</ref> Noura bint Musaid died in July 2016.<ref name=hasa/>
Prince Musaid's private library with rare book collections in Riyadh was made by him as the first [[public library]] in the country.<ref name=aljaz/> Following his death his books were donated to the library of [[Imam Muhammad bin Saud Islamic University]] in Riyadh.<ref name=aljaz/>
Prince Musaid died in 1992 at age 70 in [[King Faisal Specialist Hospital]] in [[Riyadh]].<ref name=aljaz/>
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| after= [[Mohammed bin Ali Aba Al Khail]]
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