Tariq bin Taimur (30 June 1921 – 28 December 1980) was a member of the Omani royal family who became president of the

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(prime minister) of Oman. Tariq was a son of Sultan

Taimur bin Feisal Al-Wasik Billah al-Majid Sheikh Taimur bin Faisal bin Turki, KCIE, CSI (1886 – 28 January 1965) ( ar, تيمور بن فيصل بن تركي) was the sultan of Muscat and Oman from 5 October 1913 to 10 February 1932. He was born at Muscat an ...

, the ruler of the Sultanate of Muscat and Oman from 1913 to 1932. Another son of Taimur, Said, ruled the country from 1932 to 1970. In 1970 Said was overthrown by his son

Qaboos Qaboos bin Said Al Said ( ar, قابوس بن سعيد آل سعيد, ; 18 November 1940 – 10 January 2020) was Sultan of Oman from 23 July 1970 until his death in 2020. A fifteenth-generation descendant of the founder of the House of Al Said ...

. The new sultan changed the name of the country to be simply the

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. He named his uncle Tariq as prime minister. Tariq held the position for two years until 1972. He was the chairman of

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from 1975 to 1976. Tariq's daughter Nawal was married to Qaboos from 1976 to 1979. Tariq died in 1980. After Sultan Qaboos died in 2020, one of Tariq's sons, Haitham, became Sultan.

Family

Tariq was the son of

, Sultan of

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, by the Circassian Kamile İlgiray. Tariq had four brothers, Said, Majid, Fahr and Shabib, and one sister. His first marriage was to Shawana bint Hamud bin Ahmad Al Busaidiyah. They had seven sons, Talal, Asa'ad, Haitham, Qais, Shihab, Adham and Faris. Tariq later married a relative, Shawana bint Nasir Al Said. They had two daughters, Amal and Nawal. Nawal married Tariq's nephew

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in 1976, but they divorced in 1979. Three of Tariq's sons were likely candidates to succeed Qaboos. Asa'ad bin Tariq became Deputy Prime Minister for International Relations and Cooperation as well as representative to the Sultan. Shihab was a commander in the

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. Haitham served as

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. After Qaboos died on 11 January 2020, Haitham was named as his successor.

Ancestry

References

{{authority control 1921 births 1980 deaths 20th-century Omani people Al Said dynasty People from Muscat, Oman Sons of Omani sultans Omani expatriates Expatriates in the Ottoman Empire