Ibn Junaydil, Saʻd ibn ʻAbd Allāh

Sa'd bin Abdullah al-Junaydil, commonly known as Sa'd ibn Junaydil (Arabic: سعد ابن جنيدل, romanized: Saʻd ibn Junaydil;‎ 1915 – 20 June 2006), was a Saudi Arabian historical geographer. Alongside Hamad Al-Jassir, Muhammad al-Ubudi and Abd al-Rahman al-Ansari, he is considered one of the first Saudi geographers in the 20th century. Al-Junaydil was born in Shaqra, Najd and graduated from King Saud University in 1972. He worked as a merchant, schoolteacher and headteacher until the 1970s. He had an interest in Najdi folklore, collecting artifacts and wrote several dictionaries and geographical encyclopedias from the 1970s until he died in Taif at the age of 87.