SCHWARTZ: He was a local kind of obscure local figure in a place called Uyana in Nejd, which is a fairly obscure part of Central Arabia.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Two Faces of Islam: The House of Sa�ud from Tradition to Terror] Reference

Babylonia, is called Nejd; and the country which slopes Westwards, from Dzat-Irq to Tihama (the coast), is called Hijaz.”.    From Wordnik.com.  [Personal Narrative of a Pilgrimage to Al-Madinah and Meccah] Reference

To be synechdochal about it, that's a veil in the Nejd.    From Wordnik.com.  [Asifa Quraishi: “Western feminists have lost opportunities to work with - rather than against - Islam and Muslim women."] Reference

This gave Iraq a large area of her territory claimed by Nejd.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Gulf War Reconsidered] Reference

These Ageyl were Nejd townsmen, the youth of Aneyza, Boreida or.    From Wordnik.com.  [Seven Pillars of Wisdom] Reference

Were the targets of Qabbani's poetry really the Sultans of Nejd?.    From Wordnik.com.  [Archive 2006-12-01] Reference

Nejd comes first as we move southward: impinging as it does on Syria.    From Wordnik.com.  [Pan-Islam] Reference

Hajj-caravan used to descend the Wadys Nejd and the “Father of Glass.”.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Land of Midian] Reference

Makalla; they go also to Nejd, but we could not find out how long they take.    From Wordnik.com.  [Southern Arabia] Reference

In the confusion that worthy man got clear away and joined his family in Nejd.    From Wordnik.com.  [Pan-Islam] Reference

Turkish Army, and had spent an exile of two years in Nejd as a secretary with ibn Rashid.    From Wordnik.com.  [Seven Pillars of Wisdom] Reference

With her head low she shuffled along in the quick, hang-kneed Nejd pace which was so easy for the rider.    From Wordnik.com.  [Seven Pillars of Wisdom] Reference

SCHWARTZ: Wahhab emerges in Central Arabia in Nejd in the middle of the 18th Century, the middle of the 1700s.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Two Faces of Islam: The House of Sa�ud from Tradition to Terror] Reference

The question of missionary enterprise in Nejd could well be put before the Emir for consideration on its merits.    From Wordnik.com.  [Pan-Islam] Reference

Abdulla brayed it; with the dring-drang, dring-drang pestle strokes of village Nejd, two equal pairs of LEGATO beats.    From Wordnik.com.  [Seven Pillars of Wisdom] Reference

The founder of the Wahhábí sect was Muhammad-ibn-Abd-ul-Wahháb, who was born at a village in Nejd in the year 1691 A.D.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Faith of Islam] Reference

Feisal had given me a racing camel (a present from the Emir of Nejd to his father), the finest and roughest animal I had ridden.    From Wordnik.com.  [Seven Pillars of Wisdom] Reference

The poor man appears to have jibbed considerably and sent his family over the Nejd border to be out of reach of Turkish persecution.    From Wordnik.com.  [Pan-Islam] Reference

To the west of the oases, between them and the Hejaz hills, was the Nejd desert, an area of gravel and lava, with little sand in it.    From Wordnik.com.  [Seven Pillars of Wisdom] Reference

Red Sea littoral, but the Nejd, the vast interior, was free.    From Wordnik.com.  [The New World of Islam] Reference

Arabian plateau, known as El-Nejd ( "the Highlands"), opposed to.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Land of Midian — Volume 1] Reference

North-Western Arabia; in fact, the boundary-wall of the Nejd plateau.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Land of Midian — Volume 2] Reference

Chart, up whose inland continuation, the Wady el-Nejd, we shall travel.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Land of Midian — Volume 2] Reference

Abd-el-Wahab in the Nejd was modelled on the theocratic democracy of the.    From Wordnik.com.  [The New World of Islam] Reference

'I leave thee now, O Faranji, and journey towards Nejd to seek adventures.    From Wordnik.com.  [Oriental Encounters Palestine and Syria, 1894-6] Reference

Nejd and Oman, it is doubtful whether Christianity made any advance there.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 1: Aachen-Assize] Reference

Between Nejd and Syria a new and promising kingdom has sprung up under Telal.    From Wordnik.com.  [Arabic Authors A Manual of Arabian History and Literature] Reference

Damascus: When Abdul-Aziz Al Saud, the Sultan of Nejd, united the tribes of the.    From Wordnik.com.  [WN.com - Articles related to Who are Syria's real friends?] Reference

The Ikhwan movement began obscurely about ten years ago in inner Arabia -- the Nejd.    From Wordnik.com.  [The New World of Islam] Reference

The Nejd remained a focus of puritan zeal whence the new spirit radiated in all directions.    From Wordnik.com.  [The New World of Islam] Reference

Many Saudis complain that the kingdom is still far too dominated by Nejd, the homeland of the royal family.    From Wordnik.com.  [Khilafah.com - Building a global movement for Khilafah] Reference

Continuing his conquests, Abdul Aziz subdued Al-Hasa, the rest of Nejd, and the Hijaz between 1913 and 1926.    From Wordnik.com.  [Conservapedia - Recent changes [en]] Reference

Its power and authority extended for a time over the whole northern section of Nejd and as far south as Oman.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 1: Aachen-Assize] Reference

The Arab is much smaller, but perfectly shaped, and sometimes not greatly inferior to the very best produce of Nejd.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Seven Great Monarchies Of The Ancient Eastern World, Vol 3. (of 7): Media The History, Geography, And Antiquities Of Chaldaea, Assyria, Babylon, Media, Persia, Parthia, And Sassanian or New Persian Empire; With Maps and Illustrations.] Reference

Wallin has unjustifiably described and inscribed it "Wady Nejd," confusing it with a northern basin, whose mouth, the Salbah.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Land of Midian — Volume 2] Reference

In the Nejd the Wahhabis collected their power again and from 1821 to 1833 gained control over the Persian Gulf coast of Arabia.    From Wordnik.com.  [Red Ice Creations] Reference

Many traditional Arabs from Nejd, the central Saudi heartland, used to refer to all outsiders as "tarsh al bahr" - vomit from the sea.    From Wordnik.com.  [Khilafah.com - Building a global movement for Khilafah] Reference