Sabah Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah

He was the fourth son of Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah. The sources disagree about his birthplace: the English article's infobox gives Jahra, while Wikidata gives Kuwait City, and the record notes both. He was educated at the Al Mubarakya School in the 1930s and completed his education under private tutors.{cite:source/wikipedia-sabah-al-ahmad-al-jaber-al-sabah-en}{cite:source/wikidata-sabah-al-ahmad-al-jaber-al-sabah}

Appointed foreign minister in 1963, he held the post until 2003 — four decades in which he became the dean of Kuwaiti diplomacy and a standing mediator in Gulf and Arab disputes. In July 2003 his half-brother Emir Jaber appointed him prime minister, taking that office from Crown Prince Saad Al-Abdullah, and he held it until January 2006.{cite:source/wikipedia-sabah-al-ahmad-al-jaber-al-sabah-en}

Jaber died on 15 January 2006. Crown Prince Saad succeeded him but abdicated within days on health grounds, and after parliament's vote Sabah was sworn in as Emir on 29 January 2006. His fourteen-year reign was marked by the mediation diplomacy he had practised as foreign minister: the United Nations honoured his humanitarian leadership on 9 September 2014, Kuwait hosted donor conferences for Syria under him, and in the Gulf crisis of 2017 he shuttled between the parties as mediator.{cite:source/wikipedia-sabah-al-ahmad-al-jaber-al-sabah-en}{cite:source/wikipedia-sabah-al-ahmad-al-jaber-al-sabah-ar}

The English article's infobox gives his religion as Sunni Islam; the Arabic and Urdu articles make no statement of his religion, and Wikidata's religion value for him is Islam only. No text in any of the three articles states his personal affiliation. This entry's data record sets out the attestation in full and explains why his school is not classified here: a single infobox value is not two independent sources.{cite:source/wikipedia-sabah-al-ahmad-al-jaber-al-sabah-en}{cite:source/wikipedia-sabah-al-ahmad-al-jaber-al-sabah-ar}{cite:source/wikipedia-sabah-al-ahmad-al-jaber-al-sabah-ur}{cite:source/wikidata-sabah-al-ahmad-al-jaber-al-sabah}

After months of hospitalisation he died on 29 September 2020 at the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minnesota, aged 91. Kuwait declared forty days of mourning, and he was buried on 30 September 2020 at Sulaibikhat Cemetery. He was succeeded by his half-brother, Crown Prince Nawaf Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah.{cite:source/wikipedia-sabah-al-ahmad-al-jaber-al-sabah-en}

The dated entity facts in this entry rest on the sources cited in the data record for this person: the English, Arabic and Urdu Wikipedia articles on Sabah Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah, each read at a recorded revision, and his Wikidata item. Wikipedia is used here as a source for entity facts only, never for prose.