Sultan Sultan (; ', ) is a position with several historical meanings. Originally, it was an Arabic abstract noun meaning "strength", "authority", "rulership", derived from the verbal noun ', meaning "authority" or "power". Later, it came to be use ...

Ghalib II bin Awadh al-Qu'aiti al-Hadhrami (born 7 January 1948) is the former sultan of the

Qu'aiti 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 southern Arabian Peninsula, in what is now Yemen. Its capital was Mukalla, and it was di ...

State or Qu'aiti Sultanate, in modern

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, and the current head of the Al-Qu'aiti household. The once ruling Qu’aiti dynasty of Hadramaut was Yafa’i in origin. He reigned for less than a year, from 10 October 1966 until the monarchy was ousted by communists on 17 September 1967. Sultan Ghalib was born in

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and is the eldest son of his predecessor,

Awadh bin Saleh. His official coronation took place on 1 December 1966 followed by another two days of state celebrations. This was followed by a week of public celebrations. After his forced abdication, Ghalib married Sultana Rashid Ahmed on 7 June 1975, with whom he has one son, Prince Saleh and two daughters, Princess Fatima and Princess Muzna. Sultan Ghalib holds an MA from the

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in Oriental Studies (Islamic History) and another in Arabian Studies from the

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, both with honours. The Sultan graduated from

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. He has been a Saudi resident since 1968, currently residing in Jeddah. He has working knowledge of seven languages including Arabic, English, French, German, Persian, Turkish and Urdu/Hindi, which supports his research of various historical periods and geographic regions. During his later years, he has authored a number of papers and books on

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and Arab history, including ''The Holy Cities, the Pilgrimage and the World of Islam'' (2008).

Ancestry

References

External links

Official Website of the Al-Quaiti Royal Family of Hadhramaut

مركز حضرموت للدراسات التاريخية
1948 births Living people Middle Eastern royalty 20th-century Yemeni people People educated at Millfield {{Yemen-bio-stub