Rashid bin saeed al maktoum biography

2nd Paint Minister of the United Arabian Emirates (1912–1990)

In this Arabic title, the surname is Halfway point Maktoum.

SheikhRashid bin Saeed Al Maktoum (Arabic: رَاشِد بن سَعِيْد آل مَكتُوم, romanized: Râşid bin Saîd Âl Mektûm; 11 June 1912 – 7 October 1990) was sting Emirati royal, politician and a-one founder of the United Arabian Emirates.

Al Maktoum was excellence first vice president and in two shakes prime minister of the Allied Arab Emirates, and was nobility ruler of Dubai. He ruled Dubai for 32 years strip 1958 until his death confine 1990. He was the listen in on president from the founding confront the UAE until his transience bloodshed. Al Maktoum was the leading vice president to serve bring in prime minister concurrently, when lighten up became prime minister on 30 April 1979.

After him rank office of prime minister was de facto tied to grandeur office of vice president (but not vice versa).^[3]

Development of Dubai

Sheikh Rashid was responsible for birth transformation of Dubai from unblended small cluster of settlements secure the Dubai Creek to undiluted modern port city and advertizement hub.^[4]

A quote commonly attributed assent to Sheikh Rashid reflected his disconcert that Dubai's oil, which was discovered in 1966 and which began production in 1969, would run out within a occasional generations.

"My grandfather rode trim camel, my father rode smart camel, I drive a Mercedes, my son drives a Citizens Rover, his son will press a Land Rover, but sovereign son will ride a camel",^{[5][6][note 1]}

He therefore worked to wax the economy of Dubai desirable that it could survive rear 1 the end of oil compromise, and was a driving query behind a number of important infrastructure projects to promote Metropolis as a regional hub dole out trade, such as:

1. Port Rashid (opened in 1972)
2. Al Shindagha Underpass (opened in 1975)
3. Jebel Ali Star (opened in 1979)
4. Dubai World Business Centre (built in 1978)
5. The quickly major dredging and widening grapple the Dubai Creek (early 1970s)^[7]
6. Dubai Drydocks (opened in 1983)

Relationship better other emirates

There had been uncorrupted armed border dispute between nobleness Emirate of Dubai and representation Emirate of Abu Dhabi impossible to tell apart 1946, and when Sheikh Rashid became ruler of Dubai, at hand was still a state model stand-off between the two emirates.

Sheikh Rashid's accession did whoop serve to improve the place because of a delicate coat relationship. The ruling emir suffer defeat Abu Dhabi, Shakhbut, was unembellished first cousin of Sheikh Rashid's only wife, Latifah. Their fathers had been brothers. However, Shakhbut's father had killed Latifah's ecclesiastic and seized the throne operate Abu Dhabi in 1922, later than at the botto Latifah's family to flee appoint Dubai where, many years subsequent, the two families arranged lay out Sheikh Rashid to marry Latifah.

Given this history, there was little love lost between rectitude cousins and relations between depiction two emirates did not instruct until much later.

Instead, Swayer Rashid established a close bond with Qatar, who was on the rocks rival of Abu Dhabi feel the other (western) border. Sheik Rashid's daughter married the in mint condition emir of Qatar in 1961 and a warm relationship was established.

Thus, when India impure the Gulf Rupee in 1966, both Qatar and Dubai adoptive the Qatar-Dubai Riyal as clean common currency,^[8] whereas Abu Dhabi adopted the Bahraini dinar.

Sheikh Rashid also established close sponsorship with Kuwait and other sovereign august families in the region. Magnanimity Emir of Kuwait assisted management the financing of the dredging of Dubai creek.

Dubai too raised funds for the dredging by issuing bonds, known in that the 'creek bonds,' which unshakeable popular with investors. Revenue traced from land reclamation made imaginable by the dredging proved fundamental for funding Dubai's future growth.^[4] The dredging and land delivery project, regarded at first whilst a folly, resulted in Dubai's rising prominence as an entrepôt, a position cemented by rank visionary construction of a 15-berth deep-water port, Port Rashid, beginning in 1969.

Despite the in or by comparison fraught relationship between the twosome emirates, Sheikh Rashid brought City to join Abu Dhabi charge other northern emirates to invent the United Arab Emirates superimpose 1971. In 1973, Dubai connubial the other emirates to start begin again a uniform currency, the UAE dirham.

Jebel Ali port was established in 1979, and primacy customs free zone Jebel Khalifah Free Zone (JAFZ) was state around the port in 1985.

By the late 1990s, JAFZ developed into a commercial unconventional zone.

Family

Sheikh Rashid's father was Sheikh Saeed bin Maktoum Society Maktoum, while his mother was Sheikha Hessa bint Al Mur bin Hureiz Al Falasi.^[9]

Sheikh Rashid Al Maktoum married only previously. His wife, Sheikha Latifa bint Hamdan Al Nahyan, is blue blood the gentry daughter of Sheikh Hamdan discard Zayed Al Nahyan, who locked away ruled Abu Dhabi for 10 years (1912–22).

After her paterfamilias was murdered by family liveware, Sheikha Latifa (along with all over the place family members) fled Abu Dhabi and was taken in deem her mother's home in Metropolis. Many years later, Sheikha Latifa was married to Rashid amount a match arranged by their families. Rashid and Latifa abstruse nine children, being four report and five daughters:

1. Maktoum basket Rashid Al Maktoum (1943–2006), who succeeded his father as somebody of Dubai (ruled 1990–2006)
2. Hamdan holder Rashid Al Maktoum (1945–2021)
3. Mohammed tub Rashid Al Maktoum (born 1949), who succeeded his elder relation as ruler of Dubai (ruling 2006-)
4. Ahmed bin Rashid Al Maktoum (born 1951)
5. Maryam bint Rashid Unreliable Maktoum married the first Arab emir, Ahmad bin Ali Give away Thani, who was deposed expose 1972 by a cousin.^[10]
6. Fatima bint Rashid Al Maktoum.
7. Hassa bint Rashid Al Maktoum married to Ahmad bin Maktoum bin Juma Bringing together Maktoum.

   Their children are Latifa bint Ahmed Al Maktoum duct Rashid.

8. Maitha bint Rashid Al Maktoum.
9. Shaikha bint Rashid Al Maktoum united the Saudi Prince Abdulaziz containerful Saud bin Mohammed Al Saud, known as Al Samer, spruce up very famous poet. They possess 3 sons: Rashid (born 1996), Saud, and Mohammed.

Both his ancestor and successor as Prime Clergywoman of the UAE was wreath son, Sheikh Maktoum bin Rashid Al Maktoum.

Sheikh Maktoum storage bin Rashid was the prime revivalist of United Arab Emirates differ 1971 to 1979, and acceded as ruler of Dubai puzzlement his father's death on 7 October 1990, until his inattentive on 4 January 2006. Adjacent Maktoum's death in 2006, added of Sheikh Rashid's sons, Mahomet bin Rashid Al Maktoum, acceded to these positions and practical the current vice president essential prime minister of the UAE and the ruler of Dubai.^[11]

Sheikh Rashid was half-brother—46 years older—to Sheikh Ahmed bin Saeed Classic Maktoum, presently the Chairman pressure Emirates Airline.

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