List of Omani royal consorts explained

Royal consorts of Oman are women that have been married to the Sultan of Oman. Sultan Qaboos bin Said was unmarried for most of his reign so Oman was without a first lady for over 50 years until the accession of Sultan Haitham bin Tariq in 2020. His wife, Sayyida Ahad bint Abdullah, is the first royal consort to have an official public role.^[1]

Sayyida Ahad bint Abdullah has been given the title Arabic: السيّدة الجليلة which can be translated as The Honourable Lady, The Venerable Lady, or The Great Lady. The title was sometimes applied to Sultan Qaboos' mother, Sayyida Mazoon bint Ahmad, though she had no official role.^[2] English language publications often refer to her as the First Lady of Oman while Oman's government entities use The Honourable Lady when communicating in English.^{[3] [4]}

Consort of the Sultan of Muscat and Oman

Picture	Name	Father	Birth	Marriage	Became Consort	Ceased to be Consort	Death	Spouse
	Aliyah bint Thuwaini Al Bu Said	Thuwaini bin Said Al Bu Said				4 October 1913 husband's death	1946^[5]	Faisal bin Turki
	Fatima bint Ali Al Bu Said	Ali bin Salim Al Bu Said	4 May 1891	1902	5 October 1913 husband's accession	10 February 1932 husband's abdication	April 1967	Taimur bin Faisal
	a Yemeni woman			c. 1919		10 February 1932 husband's abdication
	Kamile İlgiray			1920	1920 marriage	1921 divorce^[6]
	a Dhofari woman			c. 1924		10 February 1932 husband's abdication
	Kiyoko Oyama	Kanji Oyama	1916	5 May 1936^[7]	-	-	November 1939
	Nafisa Bundukji^[8]	Sadik Hasan Bundukji		1939 (divorced 1940)	-	-	1965
	Fatima bint Ali Al Mashani	Ali Fankhar bin Huwayrar Al Mashani		1933	1933 marriage	? divorce		Said bin Taimur
	Mazoon bint Ahmad Al Mashani	Ahmad bin Ali Al Mashani	1925	1936	1936 marriage	23 July 1970 husband's deposition	12 August 1992^[9]

Consort of the Sultan of Oman

Picture	Name	Father	Birth	Marriage	Became Consort	Ceased to be Consort	Death	Spouse
	Nawwal bint Tariq Al Said	Tariq bin Taimur Al Said	20 November 1951	22 March 1976	22 March 1976 marriage	1979 divorce^[10]		Qaboos bin Said
	Ahad bint Abdullah Al Busaidiyah	Abdullah bin Hamad Al Busaidi	4 April 1970^[11]	1989	11 January 2020 husband's accession	Incumbent		Haitham bin Tariq

Notes and References

1. Web site: Al Talei . Rafiah . Women’s Political Representation in Oman: Tepid and Uncommitted Policies . Carnegie Endowment for International Peace . 30 April 2021.
2. Web site: The Venerable Lady”... Does Ahad bint Abdullah hold the first title of First Lady in the Gulf? . arabic . Raseef22 . 7 April 2021.
3. Web site: Egypt: Visit of The Honourable Lady . Foreign Ministry of Oman . 11 May 2024.
4. Web site: The Honourable Lady Receives Spouse of President of Zanzibar . Oman News Agency . Ministry of Information . 12 October 2022.
5. Book: Montgomery-Massingberd . Hugh . Burke's Royal Families of the World Volume II Africa & the Middle East . 1980 . Burke's Peerage Ltd. . 0-85011-029-7 . 101-107 . House of Al Bu Said.
6. Açıkel . Gökhan . Türkiye and Oman's Growing Relationship in the First Three Years of Sultan Haitham . Journal of History Culture and Art Research . 10 April 2023 . 12 . 1 .
7. Book: Endo . Haruo . Oman and Japan: Unknown Cultural Exchange Between the Two Countries . 2012 . Muscat Printing Press . 978-9948-477-07-5 .
8. Book: Who's Who in the Arab World . 2007 . Publitec Publications . 3-598-07735-1 . 695 . 18th .
9. Web site: A quarter of a century after her passing - Who is “Mazoon,” the mother of Sultan Qaboos? . Arabic . 12 August 2017 . 10 April 2019 . https://web.archive.org/web/20190410105417/http://rasedmedia.net/2017/08/12/%D8%A8%D8%B9%D8%AF-%D9%85%D8%B1%D9%88%D8%B1-%D8%B1%D8%A8%D8%B9-%D9%82%D8%B1%D9%86-%D8%B9%D9%84%D9%89-%D8%B1%D8%AD%D9%8A%D9%84%D9%87%D8%A7-%D9%85%D9%86-%D9%87%D9%8A-%D9%85%D9%8A%D8%B2%D9%88%D9%86/ . dead .
10. Web site: Neubauer . Sigurd . Succession in Oman: Clues But No Clarity . The Arab Gulf States Institute in Washington . 17 March 2017.
11. Web site: Zein . Hoda . On her birthday The Honorable Lady Ahad bint Abdullah, the first advocate for women and family issues . Sayidaty . arabic . 4 April 2024.