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Sultan Said bin Taimur, the father of Qaboos bin Said. Qaboos bin Said was born in the southern city of Salalah in Dhofar on 18 November 1940 [citation needed] as the only son of Sultan Said bin Taimur Al Said and Mazoon bint Ahmad Al Mashani.
On 11 January 2020, Oman state TV said the Royal Family Council, in a letter to the Defense Council, had decided to defer to the choice that Qaboos named in his will, and thus had opened the letter by Qaboos naming his successor, announcing shortly that Haitham bin Tariq is the country's ruling sultan. [32] Haitham has two sons and two daughters.
This is a list of richest monarchs and family members, as estimated by forbes.com in 2015, [1] Business Insider in 2018, [2] and the CEOWORLD magazine in 2019. [3] The evaluations are based on their personal net worths, excluding properties held by the State, Government or Crown, and all of the figures are in U.S. dollars.
A new Sultan of Oman has been sworn in following the death of Sultan Qaboos bin Said, but who was he and why was his death important?
The sultan has ruled Oman since overthrowing his father in a bloodless 1970 coup.
The 1970 Omani coup d'état was the overthrow of Sultan of Oman Said bin Taimur by his son Qaboos bin Said in Oman on 23 July 1970. Occurring in the midst of the Dhofar War, the palace coup was executed with the British and saw Said deposed and sent into exile to the United Kingdom.
Sultan bin Mohammed al Numani is the Minister of the Royal Office in the Sultanate of Oman. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] He is the acting chairman of the Defence Council, so it was he who chaired the extraordinary measures upon the death of sultan Qaboos, and it was he who was entrusted to open his will containing the name of Haitham bin Tariq .
The succession is governed by the Basic Statute of Oman, and is restricted to male descendants of Sultan Turki bin Said, who must be Muslim, "rational" and the legitimate son of Omani Muslim parents. [1] Until January 2021, the succession was by selection among the eligible male descendants of Turki bin Said. [2]