Sabah al-Ahmad al-Jabir al-Sabah

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Sabah al-Ahmad al-Jabir al-Sabah ( Arabic صباح الأحمد الجابر الصباح, DMG Ṣabāḥ al-Aḥmad al-Ǧābir aṣ-Ṣabāḥ ; * June 16, 1929 in Kuwait City ; † September 29, 2020 ) was Emir of Kuwait from January 29, 2006 until his death . He succeeded his second cousin Sa'ad al-Abdallah as-Salim as-Sabah , who had only reigned for ten days.

Sabah al-Ahmad al-Jabir al-Sabah (2018)

Life

Sabah al-Ahmad was the fourth son of the Emir Ahmad al-Jabir as-Sabah, who died in 1950 .

Sabah al-Ahmad took over his first function in the civil service in 1955 as head of the press and public relations office. In 1962 he became Minister of Information, the following year Foreign Minister. He remained in this post until April 20, 1991. At the same time, he served as Deputy Prime Minister from February 16, 1978 and again as Minister of Information from February 9, 1982. On October 18, 1992, he was again foreign minister before he was appointed prime minister on July 13, 2003 by Emir Jabir al-Ahmad al-Jabir al-Sabah .

In January 2006 the National Assembly elected Sabah al-Ahmad as emir. In 2012 he dissolved parliament and one MP was jailed for two years for lese majesty .

Under his leadership, Kuwait has acted as a mediator in the Qatar crisis since 2017 . As a member of the Gulf Cooperation Council , Kuwait also mediated in other conflicts such as the military intervention in Yemen since 2015 and between Bangladesh and Pakistan.

Contrary to a custom that has existed since 1921 between the al-Jabir and al-Salim branches of the dynasty, Sabah al-Ahmad has appointed his half-brother Nawaf al-Ahmad al-Jābir al-Sabāh as his successor.

literature

  • Sabah al-Ahmad al-Jabir al-Sabah , in: Internationales Biographisches Archiv 35/2008 of August 26, 2008, in the Munzinger Archive ( beginning of article freely available)
  • Andrew White: The Amir of Humanity: A Lifetime of Compassion . London: London Wall Publishing 2017

Web links

Commons : Sabah al-Ahmad al-Jabir al-Sabah  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Gudrun Harrer: Emir of Kuwait died at the age of 91. In: The Standard. September 29, 2020, accessed September 29, 2020 .
  2. ↑ https://www.reuters.com/article/uk-kuwait-court-idUKKBN1JY0E8
  3. ↑ https://gulfnews.com/world/gulf/kuwait/kuwait-does-what-it-does-best--mediation-1.2063455
personal data
SURNAME Sabah, Sabah al-Ahmad al-Jabir as-
ALTERNATIVE NAMES صباح الأحمد الجابر الصباح; as-Sabāh, Sabāh al-Ahmad al-Jābir; as-Sabah, Sabah IV. al-Ahmad al-Jabir
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Kuwaiti emir
DATE OF BIRTH June 16, 1929
DATE OF DEATH 29th September 2020