The Al Sharqi ( ar, الشرقي) family is the ruling royal family of

Fujairah Fujairah City ( ar, الفجيرة) is the capital of the emirate of Fujairah in the United Arab Emirates. It is the seventh-largest city in UAE, located on the Gulf of Oman (part of the Indian Ocean). It is the only Emirati capital city on the ...

, one of the seven emirates that together comprise the United Arab Emirates (UAE).

Founding Fujairah

The name derives from the singular of Sharqiyin, long the dominant tribe along the East coast of the

Trucial States The Trucial States ( '), also known as the Trucial Coast ( '), the Trucial Sheikhdoms ( '), Trucial Arabia or Trucial Oman, was the name the British government gave to a group of tribal confederations in southeastern Arabia whose leaders had ...

(and the second most numerous in the area around the start of the 19th century), an area known as Shamailiyah. The Sharqiyin were traditionally dependents of

Sharjah Sharjah (; ar, ٱلشَّارقَة ', Gulf Arabic: ''aš-Šārja'') is the third-most populous city in the United Arab Emirates, after Dubai and Abu Dhabi, forming part of the Dubai-Sharjah-Ajman metropolitan area. Sharjah is the capital ...

and, over the centuries, made several attempts to secede and declare independence, finally practically managing this from 1901 onwards and finally gaining British recognition as a Trucial State in 1952.

List of Al Sharqi rulers

* 1879–1936: Hamad bin Abdullah Al Sharqi * 1936–1938: Saif bin Hamad Al Sharqi * 1938–1975:

Mohammed bin Hamad Al Sharqi Sheikh Mohammed bin Hamad Al Sharqi (1908 – 6 September 1974) was the Ruler of Fujairah, one of the emirates which today form the United Arab Emirates (UAE), from 1938–1974. In 1952 he was to see his father's long-held dream of independence ...

* 1975–present: Hamad bin Mohammed Al Sharqi

References

{{Rulers of Fujairah Middle Eastern royal families Tribes of the United Arab Emirates Arab dynasties History of the United Arab Emirates