sultan kingSultan was born in Riyadh on 27 June 1956, [3] [4] as the second son of Prince Salman, then governor of Riyadh province and now King of Saudi Arabia. [5] His mother was Sultana bint Turki Al Sudairi. [6] She was a daughter of KingMaḥmūd of Ghazna (rened ad 998–1030) was the first Muslim ruler to be called sultan by his contemporaries, and under the Seljuqs of Anatolia and Iran it became a regular title.