Mazun al-Mashani

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Princess Mazun bint Ahmed Ali al-Maschani ( Arabic مزون بنت أحمد, DMG Mazūn bint Aḥamad ; * unknown; † August 12, 1992 ) was the second wife of Sultan Sayyid Said bin Taimur al-Said and the mother of the later Sultan Sayyid Qabus bin Said al-Said , of the Sultanate of Oman .

Life and meaning

Mazun was born in eastern Dhofar , the southern province of Oman , in the 1920s . She was the daughter of Sheikh Ahmed Ali, the chief of the powerful Bait Maschani tribe. She was a "Jebbali", that is, a member of a mountain tribe. She became the second wife of Sultan Said in 1936 . She is a cousin of his first wife, Fatima. The wedding was not entirely without complications. The Maschani tribe felt that the bride price was not high enough. So they kidnapped the sultan's fiancée and took her back to the mountains. As a result, the Bait Tabook tribe, a tribe of the coastal plain around the provincial capital Salala , who were not sympathetic to the Maschini tribe, assembled a persecution troop. They succeeded in setting up the Maschani command and forcing them to return to Salalah. The wedding was celebrated with the usual jubilation and on November 18, 1940 she gave birth to the Sultan a son, Qaboos , who would later become the sultan and successor to her husband. Otherwise little is known about her life, except that Sultan Qaboos had a lifelong bond with his mother. She died in 1992 from longstanding diabetes . Sultan Qaboos had them buried in the cemetery near the mosque in their home region in Taqa . She was very well known and loved not only in her home province, but throughout Oman. Therefore, a three-day state mourning was declared on the occasion of her death .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Her first name "Mazun" is an old Persian name for the Sultanate of Oman . The spelling of the name varies in many publications. One also finds: Mazoon , Mazwun bint Ahamed al-Maschani , Mizoon or Miyzun .
  2. ↑ Sergey Plekhanov: A Reformer on the Throne: Sultan Qaboos bin Said Al Said . Trident Press, London 2004, p. 279.
  3. ↑ This information was personally confirmed by the Sultan to the then "Political Agent" T. Hickinbotham (cf. telegram from the "Political Agent" in Muscat to the "Political Resident" in Kuwait on December 10, 1940, printed in: Alan de Lacy Rush : Ruling Families of Arabia. Sultanate of Oman. The Royal Family of Al Bu Sa'id. Volume 2, Archive Editions, London 1991, p. 675.)
  4. ↑ Royal Ark
  5. ↑ Tony Jeapes : SAS Secret War: Operation Storm in the Middle East . Grennhill Books / Stakpole Books, London / Pennsylvania 2005, ISBN 1-85367-567-9 , p. 19.
personal data
SURNAME Maschani, Mazun al-
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Maschani, Mazun bint Ahmed Ali al-
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Omani nobles, second wife of Sultan Said and mother of Sultan Qaboos of Oman
DATE OF BIRTH 20th century
DATE OF DEATH August 12, 1992