Muhammad bin Sabah Al-Sabah explained

Birth Date:1838
Birth Place:Sheikhdom of Kuwait
Issue:Ali
Sabah
Saud
Khalid
Athbi
Latifa
Sabika
Pasha
Succession:6th Ruler of Kuwait
Father:Sabah II
Mother:a daughter of Emir Muhammad bin Ibrahim Al Thaqib
Reign:May 1892 – 1896
Predecessor:Abdullah II
Successor:Mubarak I
House:Sabah

Muhammad bin Sabah Al-Sabah (; 1838 – 17 May 1896) also known as Noor Al Sabah, was the sixth ruler of the Sheikhdom of Kuwait between May 1892 and May 1896 during which he held the title of Pasha from the Ottoman Sultan. He was the second son of Sabah II Al-Sabah and succeeded his half-brother Abdullah II Al-Sabah upon his death in 1892.

When Muhammad came to power, disagreements soon arose between him and his brother Mubarak. Muhammad dealt with this by occupying Mubarak with foreign affairs, dispatching him to Hasa with an Ottoman force, and to the desert in order to settle affairs amongst tribes without providing funding.

In 1896, Mubarak summoned his sons Jaber and Salim, and some supporters, and rode to Kuwait where they secretly entered Muhammad's house.[1] Muhammad and his brother Jarrah were assassinated in his house by Mubarak Al-Sabah on 17 May 1896.[2] [3]

Following the assassination, Mubarak would become the ruler of Kuwait[4] and the sons of Muhammad and Jarrah were exiled to al Zubayr, staying there until 1921.[5]

Notes and References

  1. Book: Jill Crystal. Oil and politics in the Gulf: Rulers and merchants in Kuwait and Qatar. Cambridge University Press. 1995. 9780511558818. Cambridge, UK. 23.
  2. Book: Saudi Arabia. 1955. F.A. Praeger. New York. 236. H. St. John Philby. 317764387.
  3. Book: The Reign of Mubarak-Al-Sabah: Shaikh of Kuwait 1896–1915. Salwa Alghanim. 15 October 1998. I.B.Tauris. 9781860643507.
  4. Peter Sluglett. The Resilience of a Frontier: Ottoman and Iraqi Claims to Kuwait, 1871-1990. The International History Review . December 2002. 24. 4. 788. 40111134.
  5. Book: Abdulrahman Alebrahim. Marc Owen Jones. Ross Porter. Marc Valeri. Gulfization of the Arab World. 2018. Gerlach Press. Berlin, Germany. 133–150. Kuwaiti-Zubayri Intellectual Relations until the Beginning of the Twentieth Century: ‘Abd al-‘Aziz al-Rushayd as an Example.