Hamad bin Thuwaini of Zanzibar

Sayyid Hamad ibn Thuwaini ibn Said al - Busaid, (* 1857, † August 25, 1896, . Arabic حمد بن ثويني البوسعيد, DMG Hamad b Ṯuwainī al - ʿ īd BUSA ) was from 1893 to 1896 the Sultan of Zanzibar.

He was a son of Sultan Said ibn Thuwaini of Oman and grandson of Sultan Said ibn Sultan. After the death of his uncle Ali ibn Said he was appointed by the British protectorate power to the Sultan of Zanzibar. He ruled Zanzibar on 5 March 1893 to his death.

Right at the beginning of his term, he had to acknowledge the Italian protectorate over from its predecessor at first only leased to the Italian cities of the Somali Benadirküste. Instead assumed the British 1893-1895 briefly Wituland the Sultan of Zanzibar. Hamad was mainly the British compromise over always and in 1894 appointed Grand Knight of the Order of the Star of India, and in 1895 awarded the Prussian Red Eagle Order.

Hamad was married in first marriage with his cousin Turkiya, the daughter of the Sultan Turki bin Said of Oman, in a second marriage with his cousin Nunu, a daughter of Sultan Said ibn Bargash of Zanzibar. In Oman, he supported a failed 1895 coup attempt against his brother Faisal ibn Turki, but was poisoned in 1896 in Zanzibar by his cousin and brother Khalid ibn Bargash probably what led to the British Zanzibari war.