Salim Al-Mubarak Al-Sabah

Sheikh Salim Al-Mubarak Al-Sabah (1864 – 23 February 1921) was the ninth ruler of Kuwait of the Al-Sabah family, the second son of Mubarak Al-Sabah "the Great" by his wife Sheikha Duaij Al-Sabah, and the progenitor of the family's Al-Salim branch. ^{1 2} He succeeded his elder brother Jaber II on 5 February 1917; before that he had been governor of Kuwait City in 1915–1917 and commander of Kuwait's cavalry and infantry, and his short reign saw the building of Kuwait's third wall and the battles of Hamdh and Jahra in 1920. ^{1 2}

Salim was born in 1864 at Kuwait, the second son of Mubarak the Great, and grew up in the ruling house his father had united under a strict hand, as the Arabic article sets out in his parentage and his place among his brothers. ¹ In his father's service he became governor of Kuwait City between 1915 and 1917, as well as chief cavalry and infantry commander, and the English article credits him with command during the 1920 Battle of Jahra. ²

Salim succeeded his brother Jaber II on 5 February 1917, becoming Kuwait's ninth ruler, and held the throne until his death in February 1921. ^{1 2} The Arabic article lists the chief events of his reign as the building of Kuwait's third wall, raised around the town in years of frontier unrest, the Battle of Hamdh in 1919, and the Battle of Jahra in 1920, in which Kuwait faced the attack of the Ikhwan and their allies. ¹ On his death he was succeeded by his nephew Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah, so the rule passed from Mubarak's own sons to Jaber's line, while Salim's descendants formed the Al-Salim branch of the family. ²

Salim died at Kuwait City in February 1921, and his death day is split between the sources, which the museum states rather than merges: the English, Arabic — the latter citing the Kuwait News Agency — and Urdu articles give 23 February 1921, while Wikidata gives 22 February 1921 and a succession-template line in the English article itself also prints 22 February; the record follows the articles' 23 February and marks the day debated. ^{2 1 3} He left a large family by several wives, as the Arabic article enumerates; among his sons were Sheikh Abdullah Al-Salim, later the eleventh emir of Kuwait, and Sheikh Sabah Al-Salim, its twelfth, besides Ali, Fahad and Duaij and daughters. ¹ His figure also survives in Kuwaiti popular culture: the Arabic article notes that he appears as a character in the television series "Lion of the Peninsula", about his father's life, played by the actor Abdulmohsen Al-Nemer. ¹

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

The sources used here are short articles, and they preserve no sayings or detailed positions of Salim's to present; what the museum records is the documentary disagreement itself: his death day (23 February in the three articles, 22 February in Wikidata and in the English article's own succession template) and the spelling of his name as "Salem" in the English infobox against "Salim" in its title. ^{2 3} His faith is recorded as unknown as to school in his data record: none of the three articles states a religion or school for him, and Wikidata carries no religion value at all, so the value stays unknown under the two-source rule and the doubt rule. ^{1 2 3}

• The defined sources cited above, registered in data/source/.
• Later translations and edits of this article need periodic review with clear update dates.