Sultan bin Bajad bin Hameed Al-Otaibi (Arabic: سلطان بن بجاد بن حميد العتيبي) was a leader of the Ikhwan movement in Saudi Arabia. This movement was the virtual army that was supported by King Abdelaziz bin Saud to build his kingdom between 1910 and 1927. Together with his colleague and friend Faisal Al-Dawish, he led the Arab tribal armies in the occupation of Hail, Al-Hasa, Jizán, Asir, Mecca and Jeddah. He was illiterate and very religious, a strong believer in the principles of Salafism. He fought against the enemies of the Saudi kingdom, while he considered them infidels and non-believers.
After the occupation of Hijaz, the king and many of the Ikhwan leaders went to bloody confrontations, when Saud wanted to stop the foreign incursions of Arabia and concentrate on the constructions of the base a modern state. Al-Otaibi and his associates considered this a sin and challenged the agreements, made by Ibn Saud with the British and neighboring powers. Bin Bajad led to an open rebellion against the army of Ibn Saud and continued to reject even after the important defeat of the Ikhwan rebels at the Battle of Sabilla. Death
He was finally killed in Al Artaweeiyah in 1931.
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