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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.
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 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.
The sultan has ruled Oman since overthrowing his father in a bloodless 1970 coup.
On 11 January 2021, Sultan Haitham amended the Basic Statute to institute a formal line of succession, repealing Royal Decree 96/101 promulgated by his predecessor Sultan Qaboos in November 1996, and created the title and position of Crown Prince of Oman. [3]
The current palace, Qaṣr al-ʿAlam, was commissioned by Sultan Qaboos bin Said and erected in the same place between the two forts. The palace was designed by Indian architects, Shapoorji Pallonji, [2] in a very flamboyant style, [3] and was completed in 1972. [4]
When Qaboos championed modernization, the sultan threw his son under house arrest. But the British reckoned that the old man’s reactionary stance strengthened the rebels’ position, and sought ...