House of Al Said facts for kids
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| Country: | Sultanate of Oman Sultanate of Zanzibar |
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| Titles: | *Sultan of Oman (1744-present)
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| Founder: | Ahmad bin Said Al Bu Said | ||
| Final Ruler: | Sultanate of Zanzibar: Jamshid bin Abdullah Al Said (1 July 1963 – 12 January 1964) | ||
| Current Head: | Haitham bin Tariq Al Said | ||
| Founding Year: | 1744 | ||
| Cadet Branches: | Zanzibar Royal Family | ||
The House of Al Saʿid is the ruling royal house of the Sultanate of Oman, and former ruling royal house of the Sultanate of Muscat and Zanzibar (1840 to 1856) and the Sultanate of Zanzibar (1856 to 1964).
The tribe of Al Said traces its roots to a band of Al Azd through a patrilineal ancestor, al-'Atik b. al-Asad b. Imran, who settled in Dibba (Dabá), hence the band was also known as the "Azd of Daba". Like other Qahtani, the Azd originally hailed from Yemen and migrated north after the destruction of the Marib Dam. Archeological evidence points to the Sasanid era, around the 3rd or 4th century CE, a period of weak Persian rule.
Their ascendancy to positions of power was in tandem with special relationships established with Persian rulers, who recognized the Azdites as "the kings of the Arabs", as seen in a number of inscriptions from the 6th century CE. The head of the Azd confederation was given the title of buland (بُلند), a Sasanid appellation derived from the Middle Persian word for "eminence" and "stature", later Arabized in the form of al-julandā (الجُلندا) to identify the early rulers of Oman.
With the arrival of Islam, the Sasanians in Oman came into conflict with the converted Azdi kings. The balance in this conflict swung in favour of the Arabs when they were joined by Muslim forces sent by Muhammad from Medina, and in the resulting military campaigns the Sasanian citadels were overwhelmed and their forces expelled by 630 CE. With the rise of Islam, the Azd established themselves into a leading force in the ensuing Muslim conquests and later in the realms of the Umayyad Caliphate through the celebrated general Al Muhallab ibn Abi Suffrah (Abu Said), the progenitor of the Al Busaid tribe. Significantly, it is with the Azd that most early sections of pre-Islamic universal chronicles of Arabs begin.
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Dynastic chart of Al-Bu-Said of Oman
