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Shaikh Maktimi fell a victim to sniall-pox in the spring of 1852. He died at Death of
sea on a voyage to Qishm from Masqat, where he had gone to visit his ally Shaikh
Saiyid Sa'id, probably in connection with recent events in Batinah. Maktum,
Shaikh Sa'id-bin-Buti, 1852-59.
Shaikh Maktum was succeeded by his brother, Shaikh Sa'id, but the position Rebellion
of the latter, though his accession was peaceful, was challenged by Hashar and against
Suhail, sons of Maktum; and, on his imprudently leaving Dibai to visit Saiyid Sa'id c h i kh ioc9
at Masqat in October 1852, the fort of Dibai passed by treachery into their hands. ai '
The governor appointed by Shaikh Sa'id at his departure,—one Sa'ld-bin-Rashid,
his own maternal uncle—was at first imprisoned, but soon again released by the
usurping chiefs; and, before the return of the Shaikh, this individual succeeded in
justifying the confidence reposed in him by measures which resulted in the flight of
Hashar and Suhail from Dibai. The cause of the exiles was espoused by the Shaikh
of Sharjah, with whom they sought an asylum, and by whom a certain Sa'id-bin-
Ma'anah was induced to leave Dibai with others of the A1 Bu Mahair tribe and to
settle at Sharjah; but the evil went no further. Shaikh Sa'id was able on the 17th of
December 1852 to conclude an offensive and defensive alliance with the Shaikhs of
Abu Dhabi and Umm-al-Qaiwain by which the intrigues of the Qasimi chief were
effectually nullified.
No further internal incident distinguished the Shaikhship of Shaikh Sa'id, and, Administra-
like his predecessor in his later years, he was careful to cultivate a good under- tion ' charac-
standing with the British Government: thus he was the only one of the leading ^shaikh
Shaikhs of the coast who was not in attendance at Baraimi on the son of the sa'id. 1
Wahhabi Amir when the Resident arrived in 1853 to arrange the Perpetual Treaty
of Peace. Shaikh Sa'id died in December 1859 of small-pox, a disease to which his
family seem to have been unusually susceptible, for another brother and a nephew
now also succumbed to the same malady, which, as will be recollected, had carried
off his brother Maktum.
Shaikh Hashar-bin-Maktum, 1859-86.
Shaikh Sa'id was followed in the Shaikhship by his nephew and former rival,
Hashar-bin-Maktum, who on his accession wrote to the British Political Resident A senior ranking political representative (equivalent to a Consul General) from the diplomatic corps of the Government of India or one of its subordinate provincial governments, in charge of a Political Residency.
professing friendship and a desire to fulfil his obligations towards the British
Government; nor did the attitude of the new chief, in a case of serious outrage at
sea committed by the A1 Bu Falasah immediately before his elevation to the
chiefship, belie his fair words. Shaikh Hashar died on the 22nd of November 1886,
and the succession was claimed by his brother Rashid and by his son Maktum,
whose supporters were approximately equal in number and influence.
Shaikh Rashid-bin-Maktum, 1886-94.
The dispute as to the succession having been peacefully settled by the elders of
the tribe in favour of Rashid, the latter was recognised as Shaikh by the British
Political Resident A senior ranking political representative (equivalent to a Consul General) from the diplomatic corps of the Government of India or one of its subordinate provincial governments, in charge of a Political Residency. . In 1892, as mentioned in the general history of Trucial Oman A name used by Britain from the nineteenth century to 1971 to refer to the present-day United Arab Emirates. ,
the conduct of this chief was not entirely satisfactory; his treatment of British
subjects gave rise to complaints; and it became necessary to visit him with a penalty
for having violated the Perpetual Treaty of Peace. In September of that year he
paid a visit to Masqat, returning by Baraimi and forming on the way a matrimonial
alliance with the A1 Bu Shamis division of the Na'im tribe. In December 1892 he
became seriously ill; his indisposition at first attributed to poison, was subsequently
described as a paralytic seizure. He eventually died on the 7th of April 1894.
Shaikh Maktum -bin-Hashar, 1894-1906.
The place of Shaikh Rashid was taken, on his death, by his nephew and original
competitor, Maktum-bin-Hashar. The sons of the deceased Rashid at once formed
a conspiracy against their cousin; but Shaikh Maktum seized them and imprisoned
them for five months, after which they were released and took up their residence at
Sharjah on small compassionate allowances granted by the Qasimi Shaikh.