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Every Sa'udi schoolchild knows the tale of Abdul Aziz setting off with his little band of companions into the desert. He is their twentieth-century Robin Hood – courageous, foolhardy, desperate, wreathed in all the glamour of the few who pit themselves against the many – and his great raid on Riyadh has become Arabia's Storming of the Bastille.

But the myth is clouded, for, although all the many renderings are derived from Abdul Aziz's own lips, each one varies so much it is impossible to work out one definitive version in the Western historical sense – and you certainly will not be reading it in the pages that follow.