The Al Saud maintain authority in Arabia by controlling several factors.

First, they can resist, or at least accommodate, Egyptian interference.

After 1824 when the Egyptians no longer can maintain outright military control over Arabia, they turn to political intrigues.

Turki, for instance, is assassinated in 1834 by a member of the Al Saud who recently had returned from Cairo.

When Turki' s son, Faisal, succeeds his father, the Egyptians supported a rival member of the family, Khalid ibn Saud, who with Egyptian assistance controls Najd for the next four years