Succession: | Ruler of Abu Dhabi |
Reign: | 1922–1926 |
Predecessor: | Hamdan bin Zayed Al Nahyan |
Successor: | Saqr bin Zayed Al Nahyan |
Father: | Zayed the Great |
Spouse: | Salama bint Butti Al-Qubaisi[1] |
Issue: | Shakhbut Khalid Hazza Zayed Mariam |
Birth Place: | Abu Dhabi, Trucial States |
Death Date: | 1926 |
House: | Al Nahyan |
Religion: | Islam |
Sheikh Sultan bin Zayed bin Khalifa Al Nahyan (Arabic: ٱلشَّيْخ سُلْطَان بْن زَایِد بْن خَلِیْفَة آل نَهْيَان|Sulṭān bin Zāyid bin Ḵalīfa Āl Nahyān) was the ruler of the Emirate of Abu Dhabi from 1922 to 1926. Two of his sons, Shakbut and Zayed, ruled Abu Dhabi for seventy six years (from 1928 to 2004). [2]
Sultan killed his brother Hamdan in 1922 to rule Abu Dhabi, but was himself toppled and killed by another brother, Saqr, in 1926.[3]
Sheikh Sultan had at least four sons, the eldest of whom was Shakbut, and the youngest of whom was Zayed,[2] also called Zayed II.