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Table 4
Rulers of Dubai
tinier Dales of rule Length Relationship Termination
of rule to of rule
(years) predecessor
Maktum bin Buui •833-1852 •9 natural death
Sa‘id bin Butti 1852-1859 7 brother natural death
Hashar bin Maktum 1859-1886 27 nephew natural death
Rashid bin Maktum 1886-1894 8 brother natural death
Maktum bin Hashar 1894-1906 12 cousin natural death
Butti bin Suhayl 1906-1912 6 cousin natural death
Sa‘id bin Maktum 1912-1958 46 cousin natural death
Rashid bin Sa‘id •958- son

internal affairs. After 1835, when the first maritime truce was con­
cluded, armed conflicts could take place only on land. The Bani
Yas, as noted already, consequently became stronger than the seafar-
ing Qawasim; and their mastery over the inland tribes, who by
tradition were fierce and loyal warriors, formed the basis of their
strength.
Furthermore, in both Sharjah and Abu Dhabi, the ruling family
was very small: Lorimer estimated in 1908 that the Al-bu-Falah
of the Bani Yas had only fifteen houses,1 and that the Qawasim
included no more than eighteen adult males.2 The existence of
such a small, tightly-knit elitist group in each shaykhdom naturally
gave rise to competitive power struggles. In Dubai, by contrast,
the ruling family, the Al-bu-Falasah branch of the Bani Yas, had
400 houses in Dubai town alone in 1908.3 This large number
obviously acted as a deterrent to the expulsion of the ruler; any

Table 5
Rulers of Umm al-Qaiwain

Ruler Dates of rule Length Relationship Termination
of rule to of rule
(years) predecessor
‘Abdallah bin Rashid prc-1820- c. 23 natural death
•853
‘Ali bin ‘Abdallah i853-c. 1873 c. 20 son natural death
Ahmad bin ‘Abdallah c. 1873-1904 c. 31 brother natural death
Rashid bin Ahmad 1904-1922 18 son natural death
‘Abdallah bin Rashid 1922- 1923 1 son killed
Hamad bin Ibrahim 1923- 1929 6 cousin killed
Ahmad bin Rashid 1929- cousin

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