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Line of succession to the Jordanian throne is the line of people who are eligible to succeed to the throne of the

Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan Jordan ( ar, الأردن; tr. ' ), officially the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan,; tr. ' is a country in Western Asia. It is situated at the crossroads of Asia, Africa, and Europe, within the Levant region, on the East Bank of the Jordan Rive ...

. The succession is regulated by Article 28 of the

Constitution of Jordan The Constitution of the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan was adopted on 11 January 1952 and has been amended many times. It defines the hereditary monarchic rule with a parliamentary system of representation. It stipulates the separated powers of t ...

Succession rules

The throne passes according to

agnatic primogeniture Primogeniture ( ) is the right, by law or custom, of the firstborn legitimate child to inherit the parent's entire or main estate in preference to shared inheritance among all or some children, any illegitimate child or any collateral relativ ...

, which can be bypassed by decree. The only people eligible to succeed are mentally sound

Muslim Muslims ( ar, المسلمون, , ) are people who adhere to Islam, a monotheistic religion belonging to the Abrahamic tradition. They consider the Quran, the foundational religious text of Islam, to be the verbatim word of the God of Abrah ...

men who are legitimate and

agnatic Patrilineality, also known as the male line, the spear side or agnatic kinship, is a common kinship system in which an individual's family membership derives from and is recorded through their father's lineage. It generally involves the inheritanc ...

descendants of

Abdullah I of Jordan AbdullahI bin Al-Hussein ( ar, عبد الله الأول بن الحسين, translit=Abd Allāh al-Awwal bin al-Husayn, 2 February 1882 – 20 July 1951) was the ruler of Jordan from 11 April 1921 until his assassination in 1951. He was the Emi ...

, born to Muslim parents. The king has the right to appoint one of his brothers as

heir apparent An heir apparent, often shortened to heir, is a person who is first in an order of succession and cannot be displaced from inheriting by the birth of another person; a person who is first in the order of succession but can be displaced by the b ...

. If the king dies without son or appointed brother, the throne devolves upon the person whom the National Assembly selects from amongst the descendants of

Hussein bin Ali, King of Hejaz Hussein bin Ali al-Hashimi ( ar, الحسين بن علي الهاشمي, al-Ḥusayn bin ‘Alī al-Hāshimī; 1 May 18544 June 1931) was an Arab leader from the Banu Hashim clan who was the Sharif and Emir of Mecca from 1908 and, after procla ...

, the founder of the

Arab Revolt The Arab Revolt ( ar, الثورة العربية, ) or the Great Arab Revolt ( ar, الثورة العربية الكبرى, ) was a military uprising of Arab forces against the Ottoman Empire in the Middle Eastern theatre of World War I. On ...

. A person can be barred from succession by

Royal Decree A decree is a legal proclamation, usually issued by a head of state (such as the president of a republic or a monarch), according to certain procedures (usually established in a constitution). It has the force of law. The particular term used for ...

on the ground of unsuitability. His descendants would not be automatically excluded.

Line of succession

'' King Hussein I of Hejaz (1854–1931)'' ** ''

King Abdullah I AbdullahI bin Al-Hussein ( ar, عبد الله الأول بن الحسين, translit=Abd Allāh al-Awwal bin al-Husayn, 2 February 1882 – 20 July 1951) was the ruler of Jordan from 11 April 1921 until his assassination in 1951. He was the Emir ...

(1882–1951)'' *** ''

King Talal Talal bin Abdullah ( ar, طلال بن عبد الله, ; 26 February 1909 – 7 July 1972) was King of Jordan from the assassination of his father, King Abdullah I, on 20 July 1951 until his forced abdication on 11 August 1952. As a member of ...

(1909–1972) **** ''

King Hussein Hussein bin Talal ( ar, الحسين بن طلال, ''Al-Ḥusayn ibn Ṭalāl''; 14 November 1935 – 7 February 1999) was King of Jordan from 11 August 1952 until his death in 1999. As a member of the Hashemite dynasty, the royal family o ...

(1935–1999) *****

King Abdullah II Abdullah II bin Al-Hussein ( ar, عبدالله الثاني بن الحسين , translit=ʿAbd Allāh aṯ-ṯānī ibn al-Ḥusayn; born 30 January 1962) is King of Jordan, having ascended the throne on 7 February 1999. He is a member of t ...

(born 1962) ******(1) Crown Prince Hussein (b. 1994) ****** (2) Prince Hashem (b. 2005) *****(3) Prince Faisal (b. 1963) ******(4) Prince Omar (b. 1993) ******(5) Prince Abdullah (b. 2016) ******(6) Prince Muhammad (b. 2017) *****(7) Prince Ali (b. 1975) ****** (8) Prince Abdullah (b. 2007) *****(9) Hamzah (b. 1980) ******(10) Prince Hussein (b. 2019) ******(11) Prince Muhammad (b. 2022) *****(12) Prince Hashim (b. 1981) ******(13) Prince Hussein Haidara (b. 2015) ******(14) Prince Mohammad Al Hassan (b. 2019) ****'' Prince Muhammad (1940–2021)'' *****(15) Prince Talal (b. 1965) ******(16) Prince Hussein (b. 1999) ******(17) Prince Muhammad (b. 2001) ***** (18) Prince Ghazi (b. 1966) ******(19) Prince Abdullah (b. 2001) ****(20) Prince Hassan (b. 1947) *****(21) Prince Rashid (b. 1979) ******(22) Prince Hassan (b. 2013) ******(23) Prince Talal (b. 2016) ***''

Prince Nayef Nayef bin Abdulaziz Al Saud ( ar, نايف بن عبد العزيز آل سعود, ''Nāyif ibn ‘Abd al ‘Azīz Āl Su‘ūd''; 1934 – 16 June 2012) was the crown prince of Saudi Arabia and deputy prime minister from October 2011 and the m ...

(1914–1983) ****(24) Prince Ali (b. 1941) *****(25) Prince Muhammad (b. 1973) ******(26) Prince Hamzah (b. 2007) ******(27) Prince Haidar (b. 2013) *****(28) Prince Ja'far (b. 2007) ****(29) Prince Asem (b. 1948) *****(30) Prince Nayef (b. 1998) ******(31) Prince Asem (b.2023) ** '' Prince Zeid (1898–1970)'' *** (32)

Prince Ra'ad Ra'ad bin Zeid ( ar, رعد بن زيد; born 18 February 1936) is the son of Prince Zeid of the Hashemite House and Princess Fahrelnissa Zeid (''Fakhr un-nisa'' or ''Fahr-El-Nissa''), a Turkish noblewoman. Upon the death of his father on 18 O ...

(born 1936) ****(33) Prince Zeid II (b. 1964) *****(34) Prince Ra'ad II (b. 2001) ****(35) Prince Mired (b. 1965) *****(36) Prince Rakan (b. 1995) *****(37) Prince Jafar (b. 2002) ****(38) Prince Firas (b. 1969) *****(39) Prince Hashem (b. 2010) ****(40) Prince Faisal (b. 1975) *****(41) Prince Hussein (b. 2013)

List of heirs presumptive and heirs apparent throughout history

Heir apparent to Abdullah I

* 1946–1951:

Talal bin Abdullah Talal bin Abdullah ( ar, طلال بن عبد الله, ; 26 February 1909 – 7 July 1972) was King of Jordan from the assassination of his father, King Abdullah I, on 20 July 1951 until his forced abdication on 11 August 1952. As a member of t ...

, the eldest son of Abdullah I

Heir apparent to Talal

*1951–1952: Hussein bin Talal, the eldest son of Talal

Heirs presumptive and heirs apparent to Hussein

*1952–1962: Muhammad bin Talal, the eldest brother of Hussein (heir presumptive) *1962–1965:

Abdullah bin Hussein Abdullah II bin Al-Hussein ( ar, عبدالله الثاني بن الحسين , translit=ʿAbd Allāh aṯ-ṯānī ibn al-Ḥusayn; born 30 January 1962) is King of Jordan, having ascended the throne on 7 February 1999. He is a member of ...

, the eldest son of Hussein (heir apparent) *1965–1999:

Hassan bin Talal Prince Hassan bin Talal ( ar, الحسن بن طلال, born 20 March 1947) is a member of the Jordanian royal family who was previously Crown Prince from 1965 to 1999, being removed just three weeks before King Hussein's death. Family Prince Ha ...

, the second brother of Hussein (by decree) *1999:

, the eldest son of Hussein (by decree and Constitution) King Hussein's brother, Prince Muhammad, was the

heir presumptive An heir presumptive is the person entitled to inherit a throne, peerage, or other hereditary honour, but whose position can be displaced by the birth of an heir apparent or a new heir presumptive with a better claim to the position in question. ...

to the throne until the birth of Hussein's eldest son, Abdullah. Abdullah was his father's

from his birth in 1962 until 1965, when King Hussein decided to appoint his 18-year-old brother Hassan as heir apparent because of the unstable times in the 1960s. Shortly after his marriage to

Queen Noor Queen or QUEEN may refer to: Monarchy * Queen regnant, a female monarch of a Kingdom ** List of queens regnant * Queen consort, the wife of a reigning king * Queen dowager, the widow of a king * Queen mother, a queen dowager who is the mo ...

, King Hussein instructed his brother to appoint Prince Ali (Hussein's eldest son from his marriage to

Queen Alia Alia Al-Hussein ( ar, علياء الحسين, born Alia Bahauddin Toukan (); 25 December 1948 – 9 February 1977) was the Queen of Jordan and the third wife of King Hussein from their marriage in 1972 until her death in a helicopter crash in s ...

) as his heir apparent. However, by 1992, Hussein changed his mind. Besides his own sons, the King seriously regarded his nephew,

Prince Talal bin Muhammad Prince Talal bin Muhammad (born 26 July 1965) is a member of the Jordanian royal family. He is the eldest son of Prince Muhammad bin Talal, the younger brother of King Hussein of Jordan, and first cousin of the current King Abdullah; this makes ...

, as his possible heir. Finally, on 25 January 1999, shortly before his death, Hussein proclaimed Abdullah his heir apparent again and was succeeded by him on his death.Robins, 196.

Heirs apparent to Abdullah II

*1999–2004: Hamzah bin Hussein, the third brother of Abdullah II (by decree) *2004–present: Hussein bin Abdullah, the eldest son of Abdullah II (2004–09 by Constitution; 2009–present by decree and Constitution)

References

The King and His Prerogatives: Article 2008
*Robins, Philip: ''A History of Jordan'' Cambridge University Press 2004 {{DEFAULTSORT:Line Of Succession To The Jordanian Throne

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