On the 20 November 1979, as worshippers finished fajr prayer in Mecca’s Grand Mosque, radical Saudi preacher Juhayman al-Otaybi and hundreds of his armed followers violently besieged Masjid al-Haram and called for the downfall of the Saudi royal family.

The two week siege shocked the Muslim world and changed the course of Saudi history.

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