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Majid's grandson Ali bin Hamud Al-Busaid later became the 8th Sultan of Zanzibar, while his great-grandson Abdullah bin Khalifa Al-Said was the 10th Sultan. In 1866, he purchased the former Confederate commerce raider CSS Shenandoah and renamed her El Majidi after himself.
A Majid bin Said, the youngest son of Said bin Sultan, became the Sultan of Oman after his father's death on 19 October 1856. However, Majid's elder brother, Thuwaini bin Said, contested the accession to power. Following a struggle over the position, it was decided that Zanzibar and Oman would be divided into two separate principalities.
Zanzibar's commerce fell increasingly into the hands of traders from the Indian subcontinent, whom Said encouraged to settle on the island. After his death in 1856, two of his sons, Majid bin Said and Thuwaini bin Said, struggled over the succession, so Zanzibar and Oman were divided into two separate realms.
Ali bin Said of Zanzibar; B. Barghash bin Said of Zanzibar; H. Hamad bin Thuwaini of Zanzibar; Hamoud bin Mohammed of Zanzibar; J. ... Said bin Sultan; Majid bin Said ...
Zanzibar had the distinction of having the first steam locomotive in the African Great Lakes region, when Sultan Bargash bin Said ordered a tiny 0-4-0 tank engine to haul his regal carriage from town to his summer palace at Chukwani. One of the most famous palaces built by the Sultans was the House of Wonders, which is today one of Zanzibar's ...
The House of Al Bu Said (Arabic: آل بوسعيد, Arabic pronunciation: [aːl buː sa.ʕiːd]), is the current ruling royal family of Oman, and former ruling house of the Omani Empire (1744–1856), Sultanate of Muscat and Oman (1856–1970) and the Sultanate of Zanzibar (1856–1964). [1]
Through British mediation, two rulers were appointed from the Al Said clan; the third son of the Sultan, Thuwaini bin Said became ruler of the mainland. His sixth son, Majid bin Said, became ruler of an independent Sultanate of Zanzibar on 19 October 1856. [7] The Sultans of Zanzibar were thereafter obliged to pay an annual tribute to Muscat. [8]
Majid bin Said, the Sultan of Zanzibar (c. 1834–1870), officially founded the city Dar es Salaam, with an Arabic name that translates as "haven of peace," in 1866. The city saw a fall following the Sultan's death in 1870, but when the German East Africa Company opened a trade post there in 1887, the city's fortunes were turned around.
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