Faisal bin Turki Al Busaidi

Faisal bin Turki bin Said Al Busaidi (born in Bombay on 8 June 1864 – died at Muscat on 4 October 1913), Sultan of Muscat and Oman from 4 June 1888 until his death and the second son of Sultan Turki bin Said by an Ethiopian mother. ^{1 2} His reign saw the French consulate agreement, the temporary fall of Muscat to rebels in 1895 and the election of an imam in the interior in 1913, and his son Taimur succeeded him. ^{1 3}

Faisal was born in Bombay on 8 June 1864 according to the English article's text and infobox, with Wikidata's day-precision value in agreement, while the Arabic article gives only the year 1864. ^{1 2} His father appointed him governor of Nizwa and Samail, and under his father he led campaigns in the Samail and Al Maawil valleys and in Dhofar. ³ He married Aliyah bint Thuwaini, a daughter of Sultan Thuwaini bin Said and the mother of his son and successor Taimur; the sources disagree on his children's number, the English article saying at least twenty-two and the Urdu article twenty-four. ^{1 4}

Faisal came to the throne on 4 June 1888 in succession to his father Turki bin Said. ¹ In 1894 he agreed to a French consulate at Muscat and in 1898 granted the French a coaling station at Bandar Jissah, drawing a British ultimatum in 1899. ^{3 1} In December 1895 rebels captured Muscat and Faisal took refuge in Jalali Fort until a British warship arrived and the city was recovered. ¹ In 1903 he asked permission to abdicate in favour of his son and Lord Curzon refused. ¹ Late in the reign he delegated the capital to his cousin Said ibn Muhammad Al Said and the interior to Sulayman ibn Suwaylim, with the army under his brother Fahad. ³ Britain made him a Knight Grand Commander of the Order of the Star of India in 1904, and he received the Delhi Durbar gold medals of 1903 and 1911, Zanzibar's Order of Hamondieh, and was the first Grand Master of the Order of Al Said in 1913. ¹

In May 1913 the interior elected Salim ibn Rashid al-Kharusi as imam — at Tanuf according to the English article, while the Arabic text puts the imam's seat at Nizwa — and the Hinawi and Ghafiri tribes rose against Faisal's authority months before his death. ^{1 3} Faisal died at Muscat on 4 October 1913 according to the English and Urdu articles, the Arabic infobox template and Wikidata, while the Arabic lead prose alone gives 15 October 1913, a reading the record states and does not follow. ^{1 3 2} His son Taimur bin Feisal succeeded him. ¹

This section is to be read as a presentation of positions reported in the sources, not as a verdict of the museum.

The record sets out his religion here because it is the question the sources determine at the most contested level: the English infobox gives his religion as "Ibadi Islam" and the English and Urdu categories file him among Ibadi Muslims, while the Arabic infobox gives only "Islam" and its text's single Ibadi mention concerns the imamate camp that rose against him in 1913, and Wikidata carries no religion value at all. ^{1 3 2} No article's text discusses his personal religion and the infobox and category values are uncited inside their articles, so the attestation is a single Wikipedia family's undocumented fields — the same configuration the museum recorded as unknown for his father Turki bin Said — and the two-source rule requires two independent sources naming the school for the man himself, so the value stays unknown with the readings preserved in the record's faith note. ^{1 2} The other documentary disagreements are set out in their places: the "8 June" birth day, flagged with a citation-needed tag in the English article itself since December 2025 though supported by its cited Burke's Royal Families and by Wikidata's day-precision value; the death day, 4 October against the Arabic lead's 15 October; the children's count, at least twenty-two against twenty-four; and the Arabic categories' erroneous Muscat birthplace. ^{1 3 4}

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