Mutaib ibn Abd al-Aziz

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Mutaib ibn Abd al-Aziz ( Arabic متعب بن عبد العزيز آل سعود, DMG Mutʿib b. ʿAbd al-ʿAzīz Āl Saʿūd ; born in Riyadh in 1931 ; died on December 2, 2019 ) was a prince of the house of Saud and the 17th son of the state founder of Saudi Arabia Abd al-Aziz ibn Saud . His mother, Princess Shahida, was a Lebanese Armenian . One of his biological brothers was Prince Mischal (* 1926; † May 3, 2017).

On May 2, 1951, he was appointed Deputy Minister of Defense. In November 1963 he was appointed Deputy Governor of Mecca, which he held until June 1971. On October 13, 1975, he became Minister for City Affairs and Public Affairs. On November 2, 2009, Prince Mutaib resigned in favor of his son Prince Mansur ibn Mutaib, the previous Deputy Minister for City Administration and Rural Affairs, who was appointed by King Abdullah as the new Minister for City Administration and Rural Affairs.

According to international observers, he was one of his father's three most important sons who, according to Saudi Arabian standards, were politically classified as liberal-minded. Besides himself, these included his two younger half-brothers Prince Talal and Prince Muqrin .

That he served as minister for a long time is remarkable because his mother did not belong to an important tribe on the Arabian Peninsula, but was an Armenian Lebanese. He was considered a hard-working government official and was supported in his ministerial work in particular by his older brother, Prince Mischal. Prince Mutaib was included in King Abdullah's family faction. He and his son Mansur were considered the architects of the first local council elections in 2005.

Prince Mutaib was married to Princess Nura bint Mohammed al-Sheikh, who died on April 17, 2010 after a long illness at the age of 75 in Jeddah . With her he had eight daughters and two sons.

literature

  • Mordechai Abir: Saudi Arabia. Government, Society and the Gulf Crisis. Routledge, London et al. 1993, ISBN 0-415-09325-2 .
  • Said K. Aburish: The Fairytale Rise and Fall of the House of Saud. Is Saudi Arabia still acceptable as a partner of the West? Knesebeck, Munich 1994, ISBN 3-926901-66-7 .
  • Sharaf Sabri: The house of Saud in commerce. A study of royal entrepreneurship in Saudi Arabia. IS Publications, New Delhi 2001, ISBN 81-9012540-0 .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Saudi King Salman's brother passes away , khaleejtimes.com, published and accessed on December 2, 2019
  2. ↑ Steffen Hertog: Princes, Brokers, and Bureaucrats. Oil and the State in Saudi Arabia. Cornell University Press et al., Ithaca NY et al. 2010, ISBN 978-0-8014-4781-5 , online .
personal data
SURNAME Mutaib ibn Abd al-Aziz
ALTERNATIVE NAMES طلال بن عبد العزيز آل سعود (Arabic); Miteb bin Abdul Aziz al-Saud
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Saudi Arabian Prince from the House of Saud
DATE OF BIRTH 1931
PLACE OF BIRTH Riad
DATE OF DEATH 2nd December 2019