{ "id": "person/hamad-bin-khalifa-al-thani", "class": "person", "slug": "hamad-bin-khalifa-al-thani", "label": { "ar": "حمد بن خليفة آل ثاني", "en": "Hamad bin Khalifa Al Thani", "ur": "حمد بن خلیفہ آل ثانی" }, "summary": { "ar": "حمد بن خليفة آل ثاني (1 يناير 1952 – 12 يوليو 2026) أمير قطر من 1995 حتى تنازله عن الحكم سنة 2013، ويُلقّب بعدها بالأمير الوالد. تخرّج في ساندهيرست سنة 1971 وصعد في القوات المسلحة إلى رئاسة الأركان ووزارة الدفاع وولاية العهد، ثم أطاح بوالده في انقلاب أبيض سنة 1995. في حكمه طوّر الغاز الطبيعي المسال حتى بلغ 77 مليون طن سنويًا فصارت قطر الأغنى للفرد في العالم، وأسّس مؤسسة قطر (1995) وقناة الجزيرة وهيئة متاحف قطر، وفازت قطر في عهده باستضافة كأس العالم 2022، ثم تنازل لابنه تميم في خطوة غير مسبوقة خليجيًا.", "en": "Hamad bin Khalifa Al Thani (1 January 1952 – 12 July 2026) was Emir of Qatar from 1995 until his abdication in 2013, after which he was styled the Father Emir. He graduated from Sandhurst in 1971 and rose through the armed forces to chief of staff, minister of defence and heir apparent, then deposed his father in a bloodless coup in 1995. Under his rule liquefied natural gas production reached 77 million tonnes a year and Qatar became the richest country per capita in the world; he founded Qatar Foundation (1995), Al Jazeera and the Qatar Museums Authority, Qatar won the right to host the 2022 FIFA World Cup, and he then handed power to his son Tamim in a step without Gulf precedent.", "ur": "حمد بن خلیفہ آل ثانی (1 جنوری 1952ء – 12 جولائی 2026ء) 1995ء سے 2013ء میں دستبرداری تک قطر کے امیر رہے، بعد ازاں «امیر الوالد» کہلائے۔ 1971ء میں سینڈہرسٹ سے فارغ ہوئے اور افواج میں رئیسِ ارکان، وزیرِ دفاع اور ولی عہد کے مناصب تک پہنچے، پھر 1995ء میں اپنے والد کو بے خون انقلاب میں ہٹا کر اقتدار سنبھالا۔ ان کے دور میں قطر قدرتی گیس کی بدولت فی کس آمدنی میں دنیا کا امیر ترین ملک بنا، قطر فاؤنڈیشن اور الجزیرہ قائم ہوئے اور قطر کو 2022ء فیفا عالمی کپ کی میزبانی ملی، پھر انھوں نے اپنے بیٹے تمیم کو اقتدار سونپ دیا۔" }, "stub": false, "wings": [ "people" ], "regions": [ "arabia" ], "periods": [], "tags": [], "aliases": [], "themes": [], "span": { "earliest": 1951.9982614290507, "latest": 2026.52956597326 }, "display": { "start": { "edtf": "1952-01-01", "hijri": "1371", "calendar": "gregorian", "precision": "day", "status": "historical", "derived": true, "note": "Born in Doha on 1 January 1952 (English and Urdu article infoboxes and Wikidata give the place as Doha, Q3861); his mother died soon after his birth and he was raised by his uncle. Doha has no place entity in the museum, so no born_in relation is written. The Hijri year 1371 is the tabular conversion of the Gregorian date (derived: true); the sources give no independent Hijri date. His father Khalifa bin Hamad Al Thani has no museum record, so no child_of relation is written.", "sources": [ "source/wikipedia-hamad-bin-khalifa-al-thani-en", "source/wikipedia-hamad-bin-khalifa-al-thani-ur", "source/wikidata-hamad-bin-khalifa-al-thani" ] }, "end": { "edtf": "2026-07-12", "hijri": "1448", "calendar": "gregorian", "precision": "day", "status": "historical", "derived": true, "note": "Died in Doha on 12 July 2026, aged 74, after years of poor health that included kidney transplants and dialysis (English article, citing the Associated Press report of that date; the Arabic article and the Wikidata death claim, referenced to Al Jazeera, agree). Qatar declared four days of national mourning. The English infobox gives his burial place as Lusail Royal Cemetery, Lusail; neither Doha nor Lusail has a place entity in the museum, so no died_in or buried_in relation is written. The Hijri year 1448 is the tabular conversion of the Gregorian date (derived: true).", "sources": [ "source/wikipedia-hamad-bin-khalifa-al-thani-en", "source/wikipedia-hamad-bin-khalifa-al-thani-ar", "source/wikidata-hamad-bin-khalifa-al-thani" ] } }, "data": { "names": [ { "value": "Hamad bin Khalifa bin Hamad bin Abdullah bin Jassim bin Mohammed Al Thani", "kind": "full" }, { "value": "حمد بن خليفة بن حمد بن عبد الله بن جاسم بن محمد بن ثاني", "kind": "full" }, { "value": "أبو مشعل", "kind": "kunya" } ], "gender": "male", "roles": [ "ruler" ], "born": { "edtf": "1952-01-01", "hijri": "1371", "calendar": "gregorian", "precision": "day", "status": "historical", "derived": true, "note": "Born in Doha on 1 January 1952 (English and Urdu article infoboxes and Wikidata give the place as Doha, Q3861); his mother died soon after his birth and he was raised by his uncle. Doha has no place entity in the museum, so no born_in relation is written. The Hijri year 1371 is the tabular conversion of the Gregorian date (derived: true); the sources give no independent Hijri date. His father Khalifa bin Hamad Al Thani has no museum record, so no child_of relation is written.", "sources": [ "source/wikipedia-hamad-bin-khalifa-al-thani-en", "source/wikipedia-hamad-bin-khalifa-al-thani-ur", "source/wikidata-hamad-bin-khalifa-al-thani" ] }, "died": { "edtf": "2026-07-12", "hijri": "1448", "calendar": "gregorian", "precision": "day", "status": "historical", "derived": true, "note": "Died in Doha on 12 July 2026, aged 74, after years of poor health that included kidney transplants and dialysis (English article, citing the Associated Press report of that date; the Arabic article and the Wikidata death claim, referenced to Al Jazeera, agree). Qatar declared four days of national mourning. The English infobox gives his burial place as Lusail Royal Cemetery, Lusail; neither Doha nor Lusail has a place entity in the museum, so no died_in or buried_in relation is written. The Hijri year 1448 is the tabular conversion of the Gregorian date (derived: true).", "sources": [ "source/wikipedia-hamad-bin-khalifa-al-thani-en", "source/wikipedia-hamad-bin-khalifa-al-thani-ar", "source/wikidata-hamad-bin-khalifa-al-thani" ] }, "faith": [ { "value": "unknown", "basis": "unknown", "note": "No text in any of the three articles names a school or affiliation for the man. FLAGGED for the founder: the Sunni reading rests on a single structured value — the Urdu article's infobox religion field reads 'Sunni' — while the English infobox carries no religion field at all, the Arabic article makes no religion statement, and Wikidata's religion value is Islam (Q432) only, with no Sunni value; the English categories 'Qatari Muslims' and 'Muslim monarchs' are filings, which never attest. This is the single-infobox configuration (the wave-83 Khalid configuration, here carried by the Urdu edition rather than the Arabic): an infobox alone never counts, and one structured family cannot meet the two-independent-source bar. His headship of the Al Thani house and of a state whose constitution names Islam do not attest personal affiliation. The reading is preserved here for the founder's ruling.", "sources": [ "source/wikipedia-hamad-bin-khalifa-al-thani-en", "source/wikipedia-hamad-bin-khalifa-al-thani-ar", "source/wikipedia-hamad-bin-khalifa-al-thani-ur", "source/wikidata-hamad-bin-khalifa-al-thani" ] } ], "external_ids": { "wikidata": "Q57360" }, "sources": [ "source/wikipedia-hamad-bin-khalifa-al-thani-en", "source/wikipedia-hamad-bin-khalifa-al-thani-ar", "source/wikipedia-hamad-bin-khalifa-al-thani-ur", "source/wikidata-hamad-bin-khalifa-al-thani" ], "provenance": { "layer": "own-research", "source": "Wikipedia articles on Hamad bin Khalifa Al Thani in English (revision 1379295609 of 9 Oct 2026), Arabic (revision 76822779 of 1 Oct 2026) and Urdu (revision 11628651 of 19 Jul 2026) and the Wikidata item Q57360 (item revision 2557905871 of 17 Oct 2026, read twice with identical results), each fetched by its recorded revision id via the MediaWiki API and asserted equal to it (27 October 2026). Existence checked both directions before writing: name fragments in English, Arabic and Urdu scripts across data/person/, the QID grepped across all of data/person/, biographical comparison, and record provenances — no prior record of the man existed; the Al Thani records on file are other men (Abdullah bin Jassim, Jassim bin Mohammed). CORRECTION against the run brief: the brief gave him as living (1952–Living, following the queue line), but he died in Doha on 12 July 2026 — attested by the English article's lead, infobox and Health and death section (citing the Associated Press), by the Arabic article's lead dates, and by the Wikidata death claim referenced to Al Jazeera — so the record carries a died block and wings [people] without 'living'. Succession: he took the emirate from his father in the bloodless coup of 27 June 1995; his father has no record, so no successor_of edge is written. His son Tamim's record (this same run) carries the successor_of and child_of edges to him.", "generated_by": "Muse (Muse Spark 1.3)", "run": "century-additions-87" }, "status": { "review": "published", "generated_by": "Muse (Muse Spark 1.3)" } }, "prose": { "ar": { "sections": [ { "heading": "موجز", "markdown": "حمد بن خليفة آل ثاني (1 يناير 1952 – 12 يوليو 2026) أمير قطر من عام 1995 حتى تنازله عن الحكم عام 2013، ولُقّب بعدها بالأمير الوالد. {cite:wikipedia-hamad-bin-khalifa-al-thani-ar}\n\nخلال حكمه الذي استمر ثمانية عشر عامًا طوّر الغاز الطبيعي في قطر، ولا سيما الغاز الطبيعي المسال الذي بلغ إنتاجه 77 مليون طن سنويًا، فصارت قطر أغنى دول العالم من حيث دخل الفرد. {cite:wikipedia-hamad-bin-khalifa-al-thani-en} وأسّس مؤسسة قطر وقناة الجزيرة وهيئة متاحف قطر، وفازت قطر في عهده بحق استضافة كأس العالم 2022، ويوصف كثيرًا بأنه الأب المؤسس لقطر الحديثة. {cite:wikipedia-hamad-bin-khalifa-al-thani-en}" }, { "heading": "النشأة والتعليم والمسيرة العسكرية", "markdown": "وُلد حمد في الدوحة بقطر في 1 يناير 1952، وتوفيت والدته بعد ولادته بقليل فربّاه عمه، وتلقى تعليمه الأول في قطر. {cite:wikipedia-hamad-bin-khalifa-al-thani-en} {cite:wikipedia-hamad-bin-khalifa-al-thani-ar}\n\nتخرّج في أكاديمية ساندهيرست العسكرية الملكية البريطانية عام 1971 وعُيّن برتبة مقدم في القوات المسلحة القطرية، ثم عاد إلى قطر بعد أشهر وقاد لواءً متحركًا صار يُعرف بلواء حمد. وفي عام 1972 صار برتبة لواء ورئيسًا للأركان، ثم قائدًا عامًا للقوات المسلحة، ووزيرًا للدفاع عام 1977. {cite:wikipedia-hamad-bin-khalifa-al-thani-en}\n\nعُيّن وليًا للعهد عام 1977، وبدءًا من عام 1992 أخذ والده ينقل إليه تدريجيًا مسؤولية إدارة شؤون البلاد اليومية، بما فيها تطوير موارد النفط والغاز الطبيعي. {cite:wikipedia-hamad-bin-khalifa-al-thani-en}" }, { "heading": "تولّي الحكم", "markdown": "بعد أن ضمن تأييد معظم كبار أفراد أسرته والولايات المتحدة، نفّذ حمد انقلابًا أبيض في 27 يونيو 1995 بينما كان والده خليفة بن حمد آل ثاني في إجازة بجنيف، فصار أميرًا لقطر. {cite:wikipedia-hamad-bin-khalifa-al-thani-en} {cite:wikipedia-hamad-bin-khalifa-al-thani-ar}\n\nتولّى رئاسة الوزراء بنفسه حتى 29 أكتوبر 1996 حين سمّى أخاه من أبيه عبد الله بن خليفة آل ثاني للمنصب. وجاءت محاولة انقلاب مضاد في فبراير 1996 ففشلت، واتُّهم عدد من حلفاء قطر العرب التقليديين بالضلوع فيها. {cite:wikipedia-hamad-bin-khalifa-al-thani-en}\n\nحكم حمد ملكًا مطلقًا بسلطة عليا على جميع سلطات الدولة، ولم تُسمح الأحزاب السياسية في عهده. {cite:wikipedia-hamad-bin-khalifa-al-thani-en} ويُنسب إليه اعتماد أول دستور دائم لقطر وإجراء انتخابات المجلس البلدي المركزي الاستشاري. {cite:wikipedia-hamad-bin-khalifa-al-thani-en}" }, { "heading": "الثروة والاستثمار والنفوذ", "markdown": "أنشأ حمد هيئة قطر للاستثمار، التي تجاوزت استثماراتها حول العالم مئة مليار دولار بحلول 2013، في أصول منها برج شارد وبنك باركليز ومطار هيثرو ومتاجر هارودز ونادي باريس سان جيرمان وفولكسفاغن وسيمنز ورويال داتش شل. {cite:wikipedia-hamad-bin-khalifa-al-thani-en}\n\nواستضافت قطر في عهده قاعدتين عسكريتين أمريكيتين مع إبقاء علاقاتها مفتوحة على أطراف المنطقة المتنازعة، واستضافت الدوحة أحداثًا منها دورة الألعاب الآسيوية 2006 وكأس آسيا 2011 ومؤتمر الأمم المتحدة للمناخ 2012. {cite:wikipedia-hamad-bin-khalifa-al-thani-en}" }, { "heading": "الثقافة والتعليم والرياضة", "markdown": "في أحد أوائل أعماله أميرًا عام 1995 أسّس حمد مؤسسة قطر للتربية والعلوم وتنمية المجتمع. وصارت زوجته الثانية الشيخة موزا بنت ناصر مناصرةً بارزة للتعليم وحقوق الأطفال، خلافًا للدور التقليدي لزوجة الأمير. {cite:wikipedia-hamad-bin-khalifa-al-thani-en}\n\nوفي الفنون أسّس هيئة متاحف قطر عام 2005 التي بنت متحف الفن الإسلامي في الدوحة من تصميم آي. إم. بيه، وصارت قطر في عهده أكبر مشترٍ للفن المعاصر في العالم. {cite:wikipedia-hamad-bin-khalifa-al-thani-en}\n\nوكان له دور نشط في تعزيز الرياضة في قطر، واعتُبر الإنجاز الرياضي الأبرز في عهده ما حدث في ديسمبر 2010 حين فازت قطر بحق استضافة كأس العالم 2022، لتكون أول دولة عربية ومسلمة تستضيف البطولة. {cite:wikipedia-hamad-bin-khalifa-al-thani-en}\n\nويُنسب إليه أيضًا تأسيس قناة الجزيرة الإخبارية الفضائية ومقرها الدوحة. {cite:wikipedia-hamad-bin-khalifa-al-thani-en}" }, { "heading": "التنازل عن الحكم", "markdown": "في 25 يونيو 2013 سلّم حمد الحكم إلى ابنه تميم بن حمد آل ثاني في خطاب متلفز، قائلًا إن الوقت حان لفتح صفحة جديدة في مسيرة البلاد. {cite:wikipedia-hamad-bin-khalifa-al-thani-en} {cite:wikipedia-hamad-bin-khalifa-al-thani-ar} وكان التسليم الطوعي للحكم إلى الابن، لا الانقلاب، سابقةً بلا نظير بين حكام الخليج في جيله. {cite:wikipedia-tamim-bin-hamad-al-thani-en}\n\nوعُرف بعد تنازله بلقب الأمير الوالد. {cite:wikipedia-hamad-bin-khalifa-al-thani-en}" }, { "heading": "الصحة والوفاة", "markdown": "اعتُقد أن حمد عانى من اعتلال الصحة لسنوات؛ فقد خضع لأول عملية زرع كلى عام 1997 ولعملية أخرى على الأقل لاحقًا، ثم صار على الغسيل الكلوي. وفي ديسمبر 2015 نُقل جوًا إلى زيورخ للعلاج بعد كسر في ساقه أثناء إجازة في المغرب. {cite:wikipedia-hamad-bin-khalifa-al-thani-en}\n\nتوفي حمد في الدوحة في 12 يوليو 2026 عن عمر 74 عامًا، وأعلنت الحكومة القطرية حدادًا وطنيًا لأربعة أيام مع تنكيس الأعلام. {cite:wikipedia-hamad-bin-khalifa-al-thani-en} {cite:wikidata-hamad-bin-khalifa-al-thani}" }, { "heading": "الأثر", "markdown": "ذكرت صحيفة نيويورك تايمز في نعيها أنه أشرف في حكمه على تحوّل قطر من «شبه جزيرة صحراوية قليلة الشأن» إلى دولة ذات ثروة طائلة ونفوذ عالمي. {cite:wikipedia-hamad-bin-khalifa-al-thani-en}" }, { "heading": "المراجع", "markdown": "- كيانات المصادر المعرّفة المذكورة أعلاه، والمسجلة في `data/source/`.\n- يجب أن تكون مراجعات هذه المقالة مؤرّخة، وأن تسمّي المصدر الذي غيّر كل واقعة." } ], "frontmatter": { "id": "person/hamad-bin-khalifa-al-thani", "lang": "ar", "source_lang": "ar", "translators": [] }, "updated": "2026-10-27" }, "en": { "sections": [ { "heading": "Summary", "markdown": "Hamad bin Khalifa Al Thani (1 January 1952 – 12 July 2026) was Emir of Qatar from 1995 until his abdication in 2013, after which he was styled the Father Emir. {cite:wikipedia-hamad-bin-khalifa-al-thani-en}\n\nDuring his eighteen-year rule he developed Qatar's natural gas, in particular liquefied natural gas, which reached 77 million tonnes in annual production and made Qatar the richest country in the world per capita. {cite:wikipedia-hamad-bin-khalifa-al-thani-en} He founded Qatar Foundation, Al Jazeera and the Qatar Museums Authority, and Qatar won the right to host the 2022 FIFA World Cup during his reign. {cite:wikipedia-hamad-bin-khalifa-al-thani-en} He is often called the founding father of modern Qatar. {cite:wikipedia-hamad-bin-khalifa-al-thani-en}" }, { "heading": "Early life, education and career", "markdown": "Hamad was born in Doha, Qatar, on 1 January 1952. His mother died soon after his birth and he was raised by his uncle. He received his early education in Qatar. {cite:wikipedia-hamad-bin-khalifa-al-thani-en} {cite:wikipedia-hamad-bin-khalifa-al-thani-ar}\n\nHe graduated from the British Royal Military Academy at Sandhurst in 1971 and was commissioned as a lieutenant colonel in Qatar's armed forces. A few months later he returned to Qatar and was made commander of a mobile brigade, which later became a force called \"Hamad Brigade\". In 1972 he had the rank of general and became army chief of staff; he was then appointed commander-in-chief of the armed forces and, in 1977, minister of defence. {cite:wikipedia-hamad-bin-khalifa-al-thani-en}\n\nHamad was appointed heir apparent in 1977. From 1992 his father began gradually handing over responsibility for the day-to-day running of the country, including the development of Qatar's oil and natural gas resources. {cite:wikipedia-hamad-bin-khalifa-al-thani-en}" }, { "heading": "Accession and reign", "markdown": "After securing the support of most senior members of his family, as well as that of the United States, Hamad staged a bloodless coup d'état on 27 June 1995 while his father, Khalifa bin Hamad Al Thani, was on vacation in Geneva, and became Emir of Qatar. {cite:wikipedia-hamad-bin-khalifa-al-thani-en} {cite:wikipedia-hamad-bin-khalifa-al-thani-ar}\n\nHe served as his own prime minister until 29 October 1996, when he named his half-brother Abdullah bin Khalifa Al Thani to the post. A counter-coup was attempted against him in February 1996; it failed, and several of Qatar's traditional Arab allies were implicated in the plot. {cite:wikipedia-hamad-bin-khalifa-al-thani-en}\n\nAs emir, Hamad ruled as an absolute monarch, with supreme authority over all branches of state power, and no political parties were allowed. {cite:wikipedia-hamad-bin-khalifa-al-thani-en} At the same time he is credited with the adoption of Qatar's first permanent constitution and with elections to the advisory Central Municipal Council. {cite:wikipedia-hamad-bin-khalifa-al-thani-en}" }, { "heading": "Wealth, investment and soft power", "markdown": "Hamad established the Qatar Investment Authority. By 2013 it had invested over $100 billion around the world, including in The Shard, Barclays Bank, Heathrow Airport, Harrods, Paris Saint-Germain, Volkswagen, Siemens and Royal Dutch Shell. {cite:wikipedia-hamad-bin-khalifa-al-thani-en}\n\nQatar began hosting two United States military bases under his rule while also maintaining relations across the region's divides, and Doha hosted events including the 2006 Asian Games, the 2011 AFC Asian Cup and the 2012 UN Climate Change Conference. {cite:wikipedia-hamad-bin-khalifa-al-thani-en}" }, { "heading": "Culture, education and sport", "markdown": "In one of his first acts as emir in 1995, Hamad established the Qatar Foundation for Education, Science and Community Development. His second wife, Sheikha Moza bint Nasser, became a visible advocate for education and children's rights, in a break with the traditional role of an emir's wife. {cite:wikipedia-hamad-bin-khalifa-al-thani-en}\n\nIn the arts, he established the Qatar Museums Authority in 2005, which built the Museum of Islamic Art in Doha, designed by I. M. Pei. Qatar became the world's biggest contemporary art buyer during his reign. {cite:wikipedia-hamad-bin-khalifa-al-thani-en}\n\nHe played an active role in promoting sport in Qatar. The defining sporting achievement of his reign was considered to have occurred in December 2010, when Qatar was awarded the right to host the 2022 FIFA World Cup, making it the first Arab and Muslim country to host the tournament. {cite:wikipedia-hamad-bin-khalifa-al-thani-en}\n\nHe was also noted for founding Al Jazeera, the satellite news channel based in Doha. {cite:wikipedia-hamad-bin-khalifa-al-thani-en}" }, { "heading": "Abdication", "markdown": "On 25 June 2013, Hamad handed over power to his son Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani in a televised speech, saying the time had come to open a new page in the journey of the country. {cite:wikipedia-hamad-bin-khalifa-al-thani-en} {cite:wikipedia-hamad-bin-khalifa-al-thani-ar} The voluntary handover to a son, rather than a coup, was without precedent among the Gulf rulers of his generation. {cite:wikipedia-tamim-bin-hamad-al-thani-en}\n\nFollowing his abdication he became known as the Father Emir. {cite:wikipedia-hamad-bin-khalifa-al-thani-en}" }, { "heading": "Health and death", "markdown": "Hamad was believed to have suffered from poor health for several years. He underwent his first kidney transplant in 1997 and at least one more at a later date, and later went on dialysis. In December 2015 he was flown to Zurich for treatment after breaking his leg while on vacation in Morocco. {cite:wikipedia-hamad-bin-khalifa-al-thani-en}\n\nHamad died in Doha on 12 July 2026, at the age of 74. The Qatari government declared four days of national mourning with flags at half mast. {cite:wikipedia-hamad-bin-khalifa-al-thani-en} {cite:wikidata-hamad-bin-khalifa-al-thani}" }, { "heading": "Legacy", "markdown": "In their obituary, The New York Times stated that under his reign Hamad oversaw Qatar's transformation from a \"little-known desert peninsula\" into a country with vast wealth and global influence. {cite:wikipedia-hamad-bin-khalifa-al-thani-en}" }, { "heading": "Sources", "markdown": "- The defined source entities cited above, recorded in `data/source/`.\n- Revisions of this article must be dated, and must name the source that changed each fact." } ], "frontmatter": { "id": "person/hamad-bin-khalifa-al-thani", "lang": "en", "source_lang": "ar", "translators": [] }, "updated": "2026-10-27" }, "ur": { "sections": [ { "heading": "خلاصہ", "markdown": "حمد بن خلیفہ آل ثانی (1 جنوری 1952ء – 12 جولائی 2026ء) 1995ء سے 2013ء میں دستبرداری تک قطر کے امیر رہے، بعد ازاں «امیر الوالد» کہلائے۔ {cite:wikipedia-hamad-bin-khalifa-al-thani-ur}\n\nان کے اٹھارہ سالہ دور میں قطر کی مائع قدرتی گیس کی پیداوار سالانہ 77 ملین ٹن تک پہنچی اور قطر فی کس آمدنی میں دنیا کا امیر ترین ملک بن گیا۔ انھوں نے قطر فاؤنڈیشن، الجزیرہ اور قطر عجائب گھر اتھارٹی قائم کیں اور قطر کو 2022ء فیفا عالمی کپ کی میزبانی ملی؛ انھیں جدید قطر کا بانی کہا جاتا ہے۔ {cite:wikipedia-hamad-bin-khalifa-al-thani-en}" }, { "heading": "ابتدائی زندگی اور کیریئر", "markdown": "وہ 1 جنوری 1952ء کو دوحہ میں پیدا ہوئے؛ ان کی والدہ ان کی پیدائش کے کچھ بعد انتقال کر گئیں اور پرورش چچا نے کی۔ 1971ء میں برطانوی رائل ملٹری اکیڈمی سینڈہرسٹ سے فارغ ہوئے اور قطر کی مسلح افواج میں رئیسِ ارکان، وزیرِ دفاع اور ولی عہد کے مناصب تک پہنچے۔ {cite:wikipedia-hamad-bin-khalifa-al-thani-en}" }, { "heading": "اقتدار", "markdown": "27 جون 1995ء کو انھوں نے اپنے والد خلیفہ بن حمد آل ثانی کو بے خون انقلاب میں ہٹا کر اقتدار سنبھالا، جب والد جنیوا میں چھٹی پر تھے۔ {cite:wikipedia-hamad-bin-khalifa-al-thani-en} {cite:wikipedia-hamad-bin-khalifa-al-thani-ar}" }, { "heading": "دستبرداری اور وفات", "markdown": "25 جون 2013ء کو انھوں نے ٹیلی ویژن خطاب میں اپنے بیٹے تمیم بن حمد آل ثانی کو اقتدار سونپ دیا — خلیج میں اپنی نوعیت کی پہلی رضاکارانہ منتقلی۔ {cite:wikipedia-hamad-bin-khalifa-al-thani-en}\n\nوہ 12 جولائی 2026ء کو 74 برس کی عمر میں دوحہ میں انتقال کر گئے؛ قطر میں چار روزہ قومی سوگ منایا گیا۔ {cite:wikipedia-hamad-bin-khalifa-al-thani-en} {cite:wikidata-hamad-bin-khalifa-al-thani}" }, { "heading": "ماخذ", "markdown": "- اوپر مذکور معرّف ماخذ اکائیاں، جو `data/source/` میں درج ہیں۔\n- اس مضمون کی ہر ترمیم مؤرخ ہو اور ہر حقیقت کی تبدیلی کا ماخذ نامزد کرے۔" } ], "frontmatter": { "id": "person/hamad-bin-khalifa-al-thani", "lang": "ur", "source_lang": "ar", "translators": [] }, "updated": "2026-10-27" } }, "degree": 6, "contemporaries": [ "person/sidya-toure", "person/colette-khoury", "person/liamine-zeroual", "person/ali-khamenei", "person/khaleda-zia", "person/dahiru-bauchi", "person/muhammadu-buhari", "person/qamruddin-ahmad-gorakhpuri", "person/hisham-kabbani", "person/nabil-elaraby", "person/dwight-muhammad-qawi", "person/ali-hassan-mwinyi" ], "updated": "2026-10-27", "connections": [ { "to": "group/al-thani", "type": "member_of", "inverse": false, "sources": [ "source/wikipedia-hamad-bin-khalifa-al-thani-en", "source/wikidata-hamad-bin-khalifa-al-thani" ] }, { "to": "person/tamim-bin-hamad-al-thani", "type": "parent_of", "inverse": true, "sources": [ "source/wikipedia-tamim-bin-hamad-al-thani-en", "source/wikidata-tamim-bin-hamad-al-thani" ] }, { "to": "person/tamim-bin-hamad-al-thani", "type": "predecessor_of", "inverse": true, "sources": [ "source/wikipedia-tamim-bin-hamad-al-thani-en", "source/wikipedia-tamim-bin-hamad-al-thani-ar" ] } ], "related": [ "group/al-thani", "person/tamim-bin-hamad-al-thani", "person/abdullah-bin-jassim-al-thani", "person/jassim-bin-mohammed-al-thani" ], "license": { "prose": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "data": "CC0 1.0" } }