Mazoon al-Mashani

Princess Mazun bint Ahmed Ali al - Maschani (Arabic مزون بنت أحمد, DMG Mazun bint Ahamad; * unknown; † August 12, 1992 ) was the second wife of Sultan Sayyid Said bin Taimur Al- Said and the mother of Sultan Sayyid Qaboos bin Said al -Said, the current ruler of the Sultanate of Oman.

Life and meaning

Mazun, was born in the 1920s in the eastern Dhofar, the southern province of Oman. She was the daughter of Sheikh Ahmed Ali, the tribal leader of the mighty Bait Maschani tribe. She was a " Jebbali ", ie members of a mountain tribe. It was 1936, the second wife of Sultan Said. She is a cousin of his first wife. The marriage was not without complications. The Maschani strain was of the view that the bride price was not high enough. Therefore, they kidnapped the fiancee of the Sultan and took them back to the mountains. Then put the Bait taBook strain, a strain of the coastal plain around the provincial capital, Salalah, who was not well disposed to the Maschini strain along a tracking squad. They managed to put the Maschani command and force you to turn to Salalah. The wedding was celebrated with the usual cheers and on 18 November 1940, she gave birth to the sultan a son Qaboos, who later became Sultan and successor of her husband. Little else is known about her life except that Sultan Qaboos was warmly connected for life with his mother. She died in 1992 at its long-standing diabetes. Sultan Qaboos it was buried in the cemetery near the mosque in their home region in Taqa. She was very well known and popular not only in her home province, but throughout Oman. Therefore, on the occasion of her death a three-day national mourning was declared.