Khalifa bin Zayed bin Khalifa Al Nahyan ({{langx, ar, ٱلشَّيْخ خَلِیْفَة بِن زَایِد بِن خَلِیْفَة آل نَهْيَان, Ash-Shaykh Khalīfah bin Zāyid bin Khalīfah Āl Nahyān) was the eldest son of Abu Dhabi ruler

Zayed bin Khalifa Al Nahyan Sheikh Zayed bin Khalifa Al Nahyan (; 1835 – 18 May 1909), also known as Zayed the Great or Zayed the First was the Sheikh of Abu Dhabi from 1855 to his death in 1909. He was the grandfather and namesake of Sheikh Zayed bin Sultan Al Nahyan, Z ...

.{{cite journal, author=Uzi Rabi, title=Oil Politics and Tribal Rulers in Eastern Arabia: The Reign of Shakhbut (1928–1966), journal=British Journal of Middle Eastern Studies, year=2006 , volume=33, issue=1, page=39, doi=10.1080/13530190600603832, s2cid=145543142 He was brother of four Abu Dhabi rulers, Tahnoun, Hamdan, Saqr and

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. Khalifa refused to ascend the throne when his father died in 1909, because his mother begged him to refuse, as she was sure he would be killed. He reportedly built Al-Muwaiji Fort in what is now the city of

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during the early 20th century, during the reign of his father.{{cite web, work=Qasralmuwaiji.ae, title=Building History, url=http://qasralmuwaiji.ae/en/qasr-al-muwaiji-story/building-history/, access-date=9 March 2019 Khalifa's grandsons, Hamdan,

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, Tahnoun and Saif, were the major supporters of Zayed bin Sultan when he became the ruler of Abu Dhabi in 1966.{{cite journal , author=Christopher M. Davidson, title=After Shaikh Zayed: the politics of succession in Abu Dhabi and the United Arab Emirates, journal=

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, date=Spring 2006, volume=XIII, issue=1, doi=10.1111/j.1475-4967.2006.00237.x, author-link=Christopher Davidson, page=50 They assumed various major public roles. He is the great-grandfather of

Nahyan bin Mubarak Al Nahyan Sheikh Nahyan bin Mubarak Al Nahyan (; born 1951) is an Emirati royal and politician, who currently serves as the minister of tolerance of the United Arab Emirates. Al Nahyan previously served as the minister of culture and the minister of higher ...

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