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Muhammad Bin Laden
Muhammad bin Awad bin Ladin (; – 3 September 1967) was a Yemeni-born Saudi billionaire business magnate working primarily in the construction industry. He founded what is today the Saudi Binladin Group and became the wealthiest non-royal Saudi, establishing the wealth and prestige of the Bin Laden family, bin Ladin family. He is the father of Osama bin Laden, who is most known for planning the September 11 attacks. Life Muhammad bin Ladin was born on the Hadhramaut, Hadramawt coast of south Yemen to Awad, a Kinda (tribe), Kindite Hadhrami people, Hadrami tribesman from al-Rubat, a village in Wadi Doan. His year of birth is often given as 1905, although this is an approximation at best, as no central government had solidified control over the area at the time and no birth registry existed. Muhammad's paternal grandfather was Abud, the son of Ali, one of four brothers (the others being Ahmad, Mansur, and Zayd) from whom the four bin Laden family, Banu Laden clans trace their an ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Qu'aiti Sultanate
Qu'aiti, '), officially the Qu'aiti State of Shihr and Mukalla ( or the Sultanate of Shihr and Mukalla, ' was a sultanate in the Hadhramaut region of the South Arabia, southern Arabian Peninsula, in what is now Yemen. Its capital was Mukalla, and it was divided into six provinces, namely Mukalla, Al-Mukalla, Ash-Shihr, Shibam, Wadi Dawan, Du'an, the Western Province, and Al-Hajarayn, Hajr. Apart from Al-Mukalla, Ash-Shihr and Shibam were the Sultanate's major cities. The Sultanate spanned the Indian Ocean coast up to the border of Mahra Sultanate, Mahra, encompassed Shabwa, the central valleys and oasis settlements of Hadhramaut, and controlled the southern Empty Quarter. History Sons of Umar bin Awadh al Qu'aiti, who became a jemadar in the forces of the Nizam of Hyderabad State (now in India), first took the town of Shibam from the rival Kathiris in 1858 to consolidate their rule over all of Hadhramaut. In 1866, Sultan Ghalib bin Muhsin, Shaikh of the Kathiri, expelled Ali ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
