Hammud ibn Muhammad ibn Said

Sultan Hammud ibn Muhammad

Sayyid Hammud ibn Muhammad ibn Said al-Busaid ( Arabic حمود بن محمد بن سعيد البوسعيد, DMG Ḥammūd b. Muḥammad b. Saʿīd al-Būsaʿīd ; * 1853 ; † July 18, 1902 ) was Sultan of Zanzibar from 1896 to 1902 .

Hammud was a son of the Omani prince Muhammad ibn Said and thus grandson of the Sultan Said ibn Sultan of Oman and Zanzibar. After the death of his cousin Hamad ibn Thuwaini ibn Said , he was appointed Sultan of Zanzibar by the British protectorate in 1896 .

Hammud was married to his cousin Chanfura bint Majid, the daughter of the Sultan Majid bin Said of Zanzibar, and ruled from August 27, 1896 until his death. First, however, the British had to drive out another cousin and heir to the throne, Chalid ibn Barghasch , in the British-Zanzibarian War . When at the end of 1896 in Mogadishu (which had been leased to Italy in 1892, but was formally still under the sovereignty of Zanzibar) the Somalis rose against the Italians (Lafoole massacre), Hammud did not interfere.

In 1897, Hammud passed additional laws that finally repealed the previously forbidden but illegal slave trade and was awarded the Knight Grand Commander of the Order of the Star of India .

Hammud's successor as Sultan in 1902 was his son Ali ibn Hammud , who had been educated in England, and in 1911 his son-in-law Chalifa ibn Harub , who was married to Hammud's daughter Matika.

Hammud's daughter Bashan was married to a son of the former sultan Ali ibn Said .

Individual evidence

1. ^ Zanzibar, [1]