"Ibn" means "son" in Arabic and thus "Ibn Saud" means "Son of Saud" (see Arabic name). Although Westerners widely referred to Abdul Aziz as Ibn Saud in later years, "the clan chieftain's title of Ibn Sa'ud continued to refer to Abdul Rahman" until he had established himself as such." (Lacey 1982, 65쪽) Abdul Aziz never referred to himself by this title, and some authors (e.g. Helms 1981, 14쪽), avoid using it entirely. Lacey, Robert (1982). 《The Kingdom》. New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich. ISBN0-15-147260-2. Helms, Christine Moss (1981). 《The Cohesion of Saudi Arabia》. Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press.
Lacey observes, "Forty is the number which bedouin often pick upon when they wish to describe a smallish body of men, and forty is the number of companions which Abdul Aziz is said to have had with him when he left Kuwait in September 1901." (Lacey 1982, 41쪽)
Lacey offers further insight into the ambiguity surrounding the details of the capture of Riyadh, whose place in Saudi Arabian folklore he compares to the 바스티유 습격: Ibn Saud himself told numerous versions over the years, which is only partly attributable to Ibn Saud's excitability. According to Lacey, "He was spinning history in the way that the 구약성경 scribes spun their legends or the creator of the 롤랑의 노래 wove his epic, for even today it remains the pleasant obstinacy of the Arab to be less captivated by the distinction between fact and fiction than by mystery, romance, poetry, imagination – and even downright caprice." (Lacey 1982, 47쪽) Lacey, Robert (1982). 《The Kingdom》. New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich. ISBN0-15-147260-2. Lacey, Robert (1982). 《The Kingdom》. New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich. ISBN0-15-147260-2.
