Taimur bin Feisal

Taimur bin Feisal Al Said (born at Muscat in 1886 – died at Bombay on 28 January 1965), Sultan of Oman from October 1913 to 10 February 1932 and the son of Sultan Faisal bin Turki by his first wife Aliyah bint Thuwaini. ^{1 2} His reign saw the 1920 Treaty of Seeb and the first council of ministers; he abdicated in favour of his eldest son Said and was the grandfather of Sultans Qaboos and Haitham. ^{1 2}

Taimur was born at Muscat in 1886, a year only in every source, to Aliyah bint Thuwaini, a daughter of Sultan Thuwaini bin Said and his father Faisal's first wife. ^{1 3} He married six times and had six children: Said, by Fatima bint Ali bin Salim bin Thuwaini; Majid, born in 1919 to a Yemeni wife; Tariq, born on 30 June 1921 to his Circassian wife Kamile Ilgiray; Fahr, born in 1924 to a Dhofari wife; Buthaina, born on 10 October 1937 to his Japanese wife Kiyoko Oyama, whom he married in 1936; and Shabib, born in 1940 to Nafisa Bundukji. ¹

Taimur succeeded on his father's death in October 1913 — on 5 October according to the English and Urdu articles, on 15 October in the Arabic lead — inheriting accumulated debts and a tribal rebellion, and British support carried him through 1915–1920 until the Treaty of Seeb was signed in 1920 with the tribes represented by Isa ibn Salih al-Harthi. ^{1 2} He formed the first council of ministers, headed first by Nadir bin Faisal and then by his son Said from 1929, employed Egyptian customs experts, and in 1925 agreed an oil concession with the D'Arcy company, though no oil was found in his reign. ² He received the British honours of Knight Commander of the Order of the Star of India and Companion of the Order of the Indian Empire. ¹ On 10 February 1932 he abdicated in favour of his eldest son Said: the English article attributes the abdication to financial pressures and the Arabic article to health reasons, and the record sets both side by side without choosing. ^{1 2} He lived abroad thereafter, mostly in British India. ¹

Taimur died at Bombay on 28 January 1965 according to the English article and Wikidata's day-precision value, while the Arabic infobox's death template computes 1 January 1965, a minority reading the record states and does not follow. ^{1 2 3} His son Said reigned until 1970, and his grandsons Qaboos and Haitham later became sultans in turn. ¹

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The record sets out his religion here: the English infobox gives "Ibadi Islam", the Arabic infobox gives "Ibadi, Islam", the Urdu categories file him among Ibadi Muslims, and Wikidata gives the generic value Islam with no school. ^{1 2 3} But the English article's section headed "Ibadism" treats the interior imamate's role in his era rather than his personal religion, and the infobox and category values are uncited inside their articles, so the attestation is one Wikipedia family plus a generic structured value — the configuration recorded as unknown for his grandfather Turki bin Said and his father Faisal bin Turki — and the value stays unknown with the readings preserved in the record's faith note. ^{1 3} The other documentary disagreements are set out in their places: the accession day, 5 October against 15 October; the death day, 28 January against the Arabic template's 1 January; and the abdication's motive, financial in the English article and health in the Arabic. ^{1 2}

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