The Al Sharqi ( ar, الشرقي) family is the ruling royal family of

Fujairah Fujairah City ( ar, الفجيرة) is the capital of the emirate of Fujairah in the United Arab Emirates. It is the seventh-largest city in UAE, located on the Gulf of Oman (part of the Indian Ocean). It is the only Emirati capital city on the ...

, one of the seven emirates that together comprise the United Arab Emirates (UAE).

Founding Fujairah

The name derives from the singular of

Sharqiyin The Sharqiyin ( ar, الشرقيون, singular Al Sharqi ar, الشرقي) is a tribe of the United Arab Emirates (UAE). The Sharqiyin were long the dominant tribe along the East coast of the Trucial States (and the second most numerous in t ...

, long the dominant tribe along the East coast of the

Trucial States The Trucial States ( '), also known as the Trucial Coast ( '), the Trucial Sheikhdoms ( '), Trucial Arabia or Trucial Oman, was the name the British government gave to a group of tribal confederations in southeastern Arabia whose leaders had s ...

(and the second most numerous in the area around the start of the 19th century), an area known as Shamailiyah. The Sharqiyin were traditionally dependents of

Sharjah Sharjah (; ar, ٱلشَّارقَة ', Gulf Arabic: ''aš-Šārja'') is the third-most populous city in the United Arab Emirates, after Dubai and Abu Dhabi, forming part of the Dubai-Sharjah-Ajman metropolitan area. Sharjah is the capital o ...

and, over the centuries, made several attempts to secede and declare independence, finally practically managing this from 1901 onwards and finally gaining

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recognition as a Trucial State in 1952.

List of Al Sharqi rulers

* 1879–1936:

Hamad bin Abdullah Al Sharqi Sheikh Hamad bin Abdullah Al Sharqi was the first recognised leader of the Al Sharqi Ruling family of Fujairah, one of the Trucial States and today one of the United Arab Emirates (UAE). He led Fujairah in a number of insurrections against Al Qas ...

* 1936–1938:

Saif bin Hamad Al Sharqi Sheikh Saif bin Hamad Al Sharqi was the Sheikh of Fujairah from 1936–1938 and head of the Sharqiyin tribe. Nominally a dependency of Emirate of Sharjah, Sharjah, then Abu Dhabi, Fujairah was effectively independent following a number of conflic ...

* 1938–1975:

Mohammed bin Hamad Al Sharqi Sheikh Mohammed bin Hamad Al Sharqi (1908 – 6 September 1974) was the Ruler of Fujairah, one of the emirate, emirates which today form the United Arab Emirates, United Arab Emirates (UAE), from 1938–1974. In 1952 he was to see his father's lo ...

* 1975–present:

Hamad bin Mohammed Al Sharqi Sheikh Hamad bin Mohammed Al Sharqi (; born 22 February 1949) is the ruler of the Emirate of Fujairah in the United Arab Emirates. Early life Hamad Al Sharqi was born in 1949, the son of Sheikh Mohammed bin Hamad Al Sharqi, former ruler of ...

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{{Rulers of Fujairah Middle Eastern royal families Tribes of the United Arab Emirates Arab dynasties History of the United Arab Emirates