Taimur bin Feisal
Sultan of Oman (1886-1965)
Sultan Taimur bin Faisal bin Turki Al Said (Arabic: تيمور بن فيصل بن تركي; 1886 – 28 January 1965) was the Sultan of Muscat and Oman from 5 October 1913 to 10 February 1932.
Early life
Taimur was born in 1886 to Sultan Faisal bin Turki Al Said and his first wife, Sayyida Aliyah bint Thuwaini Al Said. His mother was the daughter of Sultan Thuwaini bin Said Al Said.
Marriages and children
Taimur was married six times and had six children.
Sayyida Fatima bint Ali bin Salim bin Thuwaini Al Said, married 1902:
Sultan Said bin Taimur Al Said
A Yemeni woman:
Sayyid Majid bin Taimur Al Said (born 1919)
Kamile İlgiray, a Circassian woman, married 1920 and divorced 1921:
Sayyid Tariq bin Taimur Al Said (born 30 June 1921)
A Dhofari woman:
Sayyid Fahr bin Taimur Al Said (born 1924)
Kiyoko Oyama, a Japanese woman, married 1936:
Sayyida Buthaina bint Taimur Al Said (born 10 October 1937)
Nafisa Bundukji, a daughter of Khan Bahadur Sadik Hasan, married 1939 and divorced 1940:
Sayyid Shabib bin Taimur Al Said (born 1940)
He is the grandfather of Sultan Qaboos bin Said Al Said and Sultan Haitham bin Tariq Al Said.
Sultan of Muscat and Oman
He succeeded his father Faisal bin Turki, Sultan of Muscat and Oman as sultan on 5 October 1913.
When he assumed suzerainty over the country, he inherited an external public debt and widespread rebellion among the tribes. Between 1915 and 1920, the sultan's forces were aided by British financial and materiel support against the rebel tribes, ensuring adequate resistance but not total victory. An uneasy situation of no war, no peace, existed, with the sultan controlling Muscat and the coastal towns (the former Sultanate of Muscat) and the imam ruling the interior (Oman proper). This was tacitly codified in the Treaty of As Sib in 1920, brokered by the British political agent in Muscat.
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