Sheikh Mohammed bin Awad bin Laden (Arabic: محمد بن عوض بن لادن, Muḥammad bin ʿAwaḍ bin Lādin; 1908 – September 3, 1967) was a wealthy investor, businessman, and patriarch of the bin Laden family. He was a Yemeni emigrant to Saudi Arabia, and married 22 times, fathering at least 54 children. Osama bin Laden is believed to be his 17th son and his only son by his tenth wife, Hamida al-Attas, who is reportedly of Syrian descent.
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Sheikh Mohammed bin Awad bin Laden (Arabic: محمد بن عوض بن لادن, Muḥammad bin ʿAwaḍ bin Lādin; 1908 – September 3, 1967) was a wealthy investor, businessman, and patriarch of the bin Laden family. He was a Yemeni emigrant to Saudi Arabia, and married 22 times, fathering at least 54 children. Osama bin Laden is believed to be his 17th son and his only son by his tenth wife, Hamida al-Attas, who is reportedly of Syrian descent.
Mohammed bin Awad bin Laden was born in 1908 on the Shafi'i (Sunni) Hadhramaut coast of south Yemen to Awad bin Aboud bin Laden (died 1919), a Kindite Hadhrami tribesman from al-Rubat, a village in the Wadi Doan in the Tarim Valley; Mohammed's paternal grandfather was Aboud bin Laden, the grandson of Ali bin Laden, one of four brothers (the others being Ahmed, Mansour, and Zaid) from whom the four bin Laden clans trace their ancestry.
Poor and uneducated, Mohammed bin Laden emigrated to Hijaz before World War I, initially working as a porter in Jeddah. In 1930,...
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