Hamad ibn Thuwaini ibn Said

Sultan Hâmid ibn Thuwainî

Sayyid Hamad ibn Thuwaini ibn Said al-Busaid , (* 1857 - † 25 August 1896 ; Arabic حمد بن ثويني البوسعيد, DMG Ḥamad b. Ṯuwainī al-Būsaʿīd ) was Sultan of Zanzibar from 1893 to 1896 .

He was a son of the Sultan Thuwaini ibn Said of Oman and grandson of the Sultan Said ibn Sultan . After the death of his uncle Ali ibn Said he was appointed Sultan of Zanzibar by the British protectorate . He ruled Zanzibar from March 5, 1893 until his death.

Right at the beginning of his term of office, he had to recognize the Italian protectorate over the towns on the Somali Benadir coast that were initially only leased by his predecessor to the Italians . Instead, the British briefly subordinated Wituland to the Sultan of Zanzibar from 1893–1895 . Above all, Hamad was always willing to compromise with the British and was appointed Knight Grand Commander of the Order of the Star of India in 1894 and awarded the Prussian Order of the Red Eagle in 1895 .

Hamad's first marriage was to his cousin Turkiya, the daughter of the Sultan Turki ibn Said of Oman, and his second marriage to his cousin Nunu, a daughter of the Sultan Barghasch ibn Said of Zanzibar. In Oman he supported a failed coup attempt against his brother-in-law Faisal ibn Turki in 1895 , but was presumably poisoned in Zanzibar by his cousin and brother-in-law Chalid ibn Barghasch as early as 1896 , which led to the British-Zanzibarian War .

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Zanzibar - Website on the Al Bu-Said Dynasty in Zanzibar (English, accessed January 21, 2010)

literature

• Heinrich Loth: History of Africa from the Beginnings to the Present, Part II, Africa under imperialist colonial rule and the formation of the anti-colonial forces 1884–1945, page 31f. Akademie-Verlag Berlin 1976