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Sayyed Qaboos bin Sa’id Al ‘Bu Sa’id, Sultan of Oman / Sultan d'Oman
Sayyed Qaboos bin Sa’id Al ‘Bu Sa’id
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Sayyed Qaboos bin Sa’id Al ‘Bu Sa’id GCB GCMG GCVO (Arabic: قابوس بن سعيد آل سعيد born November 18, 1940 in Salalah) is the current Sultan of Oman. He rose to power after overthrowing his father, Sa’id ibn Taimur, in 1970. He is the 14th descendant of the Al Bu Sa'id Dynasty.

Sultan Qaboos bin Said was born in Salalah in Dhofar on 18 November 1940. He is the only son of Sultan Said bin Taimur and is of the 8th generation of the Al Busaidi dynasty. He received his primary and secondary education in Salalah and at Pune, in India, and was sent to a private educational establishment in England at age sixteen. At the age of 20, he entered the Royal Military Academy Sandhurst. After passing out of Sandhurst, he joined a British Infantry regiment, The Cameronians, and was posted to the 1st Battalion in Germany for one year and also held a staff appointment with the British Army.
After his military service, Sultan Qaboos studied local government subjects in England and, after a world tour, returned home to Salalah where he studied Islam and the history of his country.
For six years prior to Sa’id ibn Taimur's overthrow, Qaboos was under virtual house arrest in the royal palace of Salalah. In July of 1970, soldiers supporting Qaboos clashed with forces loyal to Sa'id ibn Taimur, and deposed him. Qaboos maintains that his father abdicated the throne. The British government helped to consolidate Qaboos' power. Qaboos acceded to the throne on 23 July 1970, moving to Muscat. There he declared that the country would no longer be known as Muscat and Oman, but would change its name to "the Sultanate of Oman" in order to better reflect its political unity.
The first pressing problem that Qaboos faced as Sultan was an armed Communist insurgency from South Yemen, the Dhofar War (1965-1975). The Sultanate eventually defeated the incursion with help from British special forces and the Royal Air Force.
The political system which Qaboos established is that of an absolute monarchy. Unlike the situation in neighboring Saudi Arabia, Qaboos' decisions are not subject to modification by other members of Oman's sultanic family.
Government decisions are said to be made through a process of decision-making by "consensus" with federal, provincial, local and tribal representatives. Critics allege that Qaboos exercises de facto control of this process. Qaboos also regularly engages in tours of his realm, in which any citizen with a grievance or request is (at least in theory) allowed to appeal to the sultan in person. Critics claim these meetings to be scripted as well.
More recently Qaboos has allowed parliamentary elections (in which women have voted and stood as candidates), and pledged greater openness and participation in government. As yet, however, this parliament lacks substantial political power.
Qaboos's supporters point to his relative success in governing the country. By Gulf standards, Oman boasts good public order (it is basically a safe country, even for foreigners), middling prosperity (given its level of oil revenues) and a relatively permissive society. Since Qaboos acceded to the throne, Oman has broadened international relations, allowed newspapers, established high schools, built highways, opened hotels and shopping malls, and spends a substantial portion of its dwindling oil revenues on health care and education. Full democracy, they say, might threaten these accomplishments.
Unlike the heads of other Gulf states, Qaboos has not publicly named an heir. Article 6 of the constitution actually provides that the Ruling Family Council chooses the successor after the throne becomes vacant, and that the sultan's preference, to be expressed in an official letter (which Qaboos maintains has already been sealed and delivered to the defense minister), is only resorted to in the event of lack of familial consensus. Critics fear, however, that the resulting uncertainty could inspire a power struggle among members of the dynasty and/or the military. A power vacuum could thus coincide with the expected depletion of Oman's oil supplies, threatening the nation's continued peace and prosperity.
In 1998, Qaboos was presented with the International Peace Award by the National Council on US-Arab relations. He also forges and maintains good relations with other Arab States and partners in the Arab Gulf Cooperation Council (AGCC).
The Sultan's birthday, November 18, is celebrated as Oman's national day.
Personal
Sultan Qaboos is a Muslim of the Ibadhi sect, with Yemeni roots, which has traditionally ruled Oman. (Though Ibadhis are the majority in Oman, with Sunnis a minority, exact percentages are unavailable; 75% for the Ibadhis is often cited, while the Sunnis, followed by local Shiites and foreign Hindus, Christians, and others make up the remaining 25%.) A religious liberal, he has financed the construction or maintenance of a number of mosques, as well as the holy places of other religions.
Qaboos was married in 1976 to his cousin, Kamila, née Sayyida Nawwal bint Tariq (born 1951), daughter of HH Sayyed Tariq bin Taimur al-Said, but the marriage soon ended in divorce. He has no children. Within Oman, the rumor that Qaboos has lived a homosexual lifestyle may, to an unknown degree, have diminished respect for him, both as an observant Muslim, and as a monarch perceived as not taking adequate measures to groom a dynastic successor.
He is an avid listener to and promoter of classical music. His 120 member orchestra has a high reputation in the Middle East. Although initially trained by British professionals (who were paid much more than Omanis, but no more than was standard for London, whence most were recruited), the orchestra consists entirely of young Omanis who, since 1986, audition as children and grow up as members of the symphonic ensemble. They play locally and travel abroad with the sultan (although not to Salafi Saudi Arabia, because the orchestra mixes male and female musicians). Argentine composer Lalo Schifrin was commissioned to compose a work entitled Symphonic Impressions of Oman and is particularly enthusiastic about the pipe organ. Such cultural innovations by the sultan have, however, been criticised as "just wasted money" because, as an Omani professional observed in 2001, "music diverts us from being serious about religion."

 
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Qabus ibn Said (قابوس بن سعيد ال بو سعيد en arabe), né le 18 novembre 1940, est le sultan d'Oman depuis le 23 juillet 1970.
Descendant de la dynastie Al Bu Sa’id au pouvoir depuis 1744, fils du Sultan Saïd ibn Taymur, né à Salalah, la grande ville du sud du pays alors dénommé « Mascate et Oman », Qabus a connu une enfance solitaire et austère, interdit d’aller à la plage, de participer à des jeux, ou de parler avec ses précepteurs de questions étrangères à ses études.
A l’âge de 16 ans, il est envoyé en Angleterre pendant 5 ans, dans l’Académie privée de Bury Saint Edmunds, dans le Suffolk , où il devient un cavalier émérite et un grand amateur de musique classique. A sa sortie de la Royal Military Academy à Sandhurst en 1962, il sert pendant un an dans l’armée britannique en Allemagne en tant qu’officier du régiment des Scottish Rifles.
Après un grand tour du monde, il est rappelé en 1965 par son père qui le maintient en quasi détention
Le 23 juillet 1970, Qabus ibn Said renverse son père Saïd ibn Taymur lors d'une révolution de palais. Oman, alors le pays le plus pauvre de la péninsule arabique, est en pleine guerre civile. Le 6 octobre, Oman intègre la Ligue arabe et le lendemain fait son entrée à l'ONU. Oman devient membre de l'OMC en 2001.
Grâce à l'aide des Britanniques, Qabus a réussi à écraser la rébellion marxiste du Dhofar. Tout en s'associant avec ses voisins (notamment l'Égypte), il mène une politique d'indépendance du pays. Ses efforts se concentrent également sur la modernisation du pays. Même si la loi a pour base le Coran, il a concédé le droit de vote et d'égibilité aux femmes, plusieurs femmes accèdant au poste de ministre à partir de 2004.

En 2005, un complot orchestré par des islamistes visant à renverser le gouvernement est déjoué. Une trentaine de personnes seront condamnées à des peines de prisons allant de 7 à 20 ans.
 
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