Abdullah bin Jassim Al Thani

Abdullah bin Jassim Al Thani, Abu Ali (born at Doha on 11 February 1880 – died on 25 April 1957), Emir of Qatar from 1913 to 1949 and the son of Jassim bin Mohammed, the state's founder; the English article's lead also names him Abdullah bin Qassim Al Thani. ^{1 2} His reign saw the 1916 treaty with Britain, the first oil concession in 1935 and the discovery of oil at Dukhan in 1940, and he abdicated twice before finally retiring in favour of his son Ali. ¹

Abdullah was born at Doha on 11 February 1880, the fifth eldest of eighteen siblings, and his kunya was Abu Ali according to the Arabic infobox. ^{1 2} He married Maryam bint Abdullah Al Attiyah and then Fatima bint Isa Al Thani, the mother of his son Hassan; his sons were Ali, Hamad and Hassan. ¹

Abdullah succeeded on his father's death on 17 July 1913, the date the Urdu article gives for the start of his rule; the Ottomans abandoned Doha on 19 August 1915, and he signed a treaty with Britain on 3 November 1916 with the resident Percy Cox, British protection being extended on 5 May 1935. ^{1 3} He built Al Koot Fort in 1927 and Zubara Fort in 1938 after the 1937 Qatari–Bahraini conflict. ¹ He granted the first oil concession to the Anglo-Persian Oil Company on 17 May 1935; the first well was drilled in October 1938 and oil was discovered at Dukhan in January 1940, the wells then being capped during the Second World War. ¹ He abdicated in 1940 for his second son Hamad, and when Hamad died on 27 May 1948 Abdullah resumed rule, appointed his eldest son Ali deputy ruler on 30 June 1948, and made his last act the seabed concession to the Central Mining and Investment Corporation on 5 August 1949 before abdicating finally for Ali in August 1949 and retiring to an oasis village near Doha. ¹

Abdullah died on 25 April 1957, all three articles and Wikidata agreeing; the Arabic infobox places the death at Doha and gives the cause as a heart attack, while the English article records burial at Al Rayyan Cemetery. ^{1 2 4} His son Ali succeeded him, and his reign is remembered as Qatar's passage from the pearl economy into the oil age. ¹

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The record sets out his religion here: the English infobox gives "Sunni Islam" and the Urdu infobox "Sunni", while the Arabic infobox gives only the generic "Islam" and Wikidata likewise gives the generic item Islam, and no article's text discusses his religion nor does any source name a madhhab for him. ^{1 2 4} The two Sunni readings are uncited infobox fields of one Wikipedia family whose own Arabic member differs in scope, and under the two-source rule they do not record a school, so the value stays unknown with the readings preserved in the record's faith note. ^{1 2} The other documentary disagreements are set out in their places: the birth year 1880, agreed by the articles, against the additions queue's 1871, which rests on an Urdu "1871 births" category alone and contradicts the Urdu article itself; Wikidata's stray 1855 value, rejected; and his name in the "bin Qassim" form, preserved in the record's names as an alternate. ^{1 3 4}

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