Mubarak Al-Sabah — English Wikipedia

English Wikipedia article on Mubarak Al-Sabah 'the Great', nicknamed the Lion of the Peninsula (c. 1837 – 28 November 1915), seventh ruler of Kuwait from 1896 until his death; it recounts his military service in Ottoman campaigns, his killing of his half-brothers Muhammad and Jarrah in 1896, his struggle for Ottoman recognition, the 1899 agreement with Britain, his defeat at Sarif in 1901, the Status Quo Agreement, the First World War, and his death of malaria aggravated by a bad heart, and it reports scholarly disagreement (Slot) over the assassination itself.