Fahr bin Taimur explained

Full Name:Fahr bin Taimur bin Faisal Al Said
Fahr bin Taimur Al Said
Succession:Deputy Prime Minister for Security and Defense
Primeminister:Qaboos bin Said
Termstart:1976
Termend:1996
Succession2:Minister of Interior
Primeminister:Qaboos bin Said
Termstart:1974
Termend:1976
Predecessor:Hilal bin Hamed Al Busaidi
Successor:Badr bin Saud al Busaidi
Succession3:Deputy Minister of Defense
Primeminister:Qaboos bin Said
Termstart:1 May 1973
Termend:1979
Birth Date:1924
Death Date:2 December 1996
Issue:Fatik bin Fahr
House:Al Said
Religion:Ibadi Islam
Father:Taimur bin Faisal
Mother:a Dhofari woman

Sayyid Fahr bin Taimur Al Said (Arabic: فهر بن تيمور آل سعيد), born in 1924, was an Omani royal and politician. He served as the Deputy Prime Minister for Defence Affairs from 1977 to 1996, during the reign of his nephew, Sultan Qaboos bin Said.

Fahr was one of the sons of Sultan Taimur bin Feisal, and one of the half-brothers of Sultan Said bin Taimur. He studied in Mayo College, India, in the 1950s.[1] During the reign of Said bin Taimur, Fahr was appointed wali, but fled the country in 1962.[2] He returned from exile after Sultan Qaboos took power.[3]

Fahr was appointed Deputy Minister of Defence from 1st of May 1973 to 1979.[4] He was minister of interior from 1974 to 1976. Sultan Qaboos appointed him as Deputy Prime Minister for security and defence affairs[5] in 1976. As deputy prime minister for defence, Fahr was answerable only to the sultan in defence matters. He held the title of deputy prime minister until his death in 1996.

Fahr was allegedly one of the likely candidates to succeed Sultan Qaboos in the 1990s.[6]

Fahr died on 2 December 1996 at the age of 71.[7]

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  1. Web site: Kutty . Samuel . Oman in India . Oman Observer . en . 7 January 2022.
  2. Web site: Valeri . Marc . Oman: Politics and Society in the Qaboos State . Hurst . en . 2009.
  3. Web site: Hunter . Brian . Stateman's Yearbook 1994–1995 . Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG . en . 21 June 2021.
  4. Web site: Worrall . James . Statebuilding and Counterinsurgency in Oman: Political, Military and Diplomatic Relations at the End of Empire . Bloomsbury Publishing . en . 30 January 2018.
  5. Web site: Narrowing the gulf . www.mea.gov.in . english.
  6. Web site: Oman - The Al Said Dynasty . countrystudies.us.
  7. Web site: Lea . David . A Political Chronology of the Middle East . Psychology Press . en . 2001.