Hamad bin Isa Al Khalifa — English Wikipedia

English Wikipedia article on Hamad bin Isa Al Khalifa; used for entity facts only. It recounts his birth in Riffa on 28 January 1950, his military training in Britain and the United States, his command of the Bahrain Defence Force, his succession to his father Isa as Emir on 6 March 1999, his declaration of Bahrain as a kingdom with the 2002 constitution, and the 2011 protests and their suppression. Its infobox religion field reads 'Sunni Islam'; its text calls the monarchy Sunni Muslim without attributing a school to him personally.