Rashid bin Saeed Al Maktoum’s biography, net worth, fact, career, awards and life story

Intro Emir of Dubai
Was Politician 
From United Arab Emirates 
Type Politics 
Gender male
Birth 1 January 1912, Dubai, Emirate of Dubai, United Arab Emirates
Death 7 October 1990, Dubai, Emirate of Dubai, United Arab Emirates
(aged 78 years)
Family
Father: Saeed bin Maktoum bin Hasher Al Maktoum
Siblings: Ahmed bin Saeed Al Maktoum
Children: Maktoum bin Rashid Al MaktoumMohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum

Rashid bin Saeed Al Maktoum pronounced Râshid bin Sa`îd Âl Makṫûm (11 June 1912 – 7 October 1990) (Arabic: راشد بن سعيد آل مكتوم‎‎) was the Vice-President and 1st Prime Minister of the United Arab Emirates and Emîr (Arabic: أمير‎‎) (Ruler) of the Emirate of Dubai. He ruled the emirate for 32 years from 1958 until his death in 1990.

Development of Dubai

Sheikh Rashid bin Saeed Al Maktoum was responsible for the transformation of Dubai from a small cluster of settlements near the Dubai Creek to a modern port city and commercial hub. His famous line, “My grandfather rode a camel, my father rode a camel, I drive a Mercedes, my son drives a Land Rover, his son will drive a Land Rover, but his son will ride a camel”, reflected his concern that Dubai’s oil, which was discovered in 1966 and which began production in 1969, would run out within a few generations. He therefore worked to develop the economy of Dubai so that it could survive after the end of oil production, and was a driving force behind a number of major infrastructure projects to promote Dubai as a regional hub for trade:

  1. Port Rashid (opened in 1972)
  2. Al Shindagha Tunnel (opened in 1975)
  3. Jebel Ali Port (opened in 1979)
  4. Dubai World Trade Centre (built in 1978)
  5. The second major dredging and widening of the Dubai Creek (early 1970s)
  6. Dubai Drydocks (opened in 1983)

    Relationship with other emirates

    Dubai remained in a stand-off with Abu Dhabi at the time Sheikh Rashid became Ruler of Dubai following the armed border dispute between the two emirates in 1946, and he established a close relationship with Qatar. Sheikh Rashid’s daughter married the Emir of Qatar in 1961. In 1966, India devalued the rupee, and Qatar and Dubai adopted the Gulf rupee as a common currency, whilst Abu Dhabi adopted the Bahraini dinar.

    The Emir of Kuwait assisted in the financing of the Dredging of the Creek, along with a popular issue of bonds, the ‘creek bonds’ and revenue derived from land reclamation made possible by the dredging. The project resulted in Dubai’s rising prominence as an entrepôt, a position cemented by the visionary construction of a 15-berth deep water port, Port Rashid, starting in 1969

    Sheikh Rashid brought Dubai to join Abu Dhabi and other northern Emirates to create the United Arab Emirates in 1971, and in 1973, Dubai joined the other emirates to adopt a uniform currency, the UAE dirham.

    Jebel Ali port was established in 1979, and the customs free zone Jebel Ali Free Zone (JAFZ) was built around the port in 1985. By the late 1990s JAFZ developed into a commercial free zone.

    Family

    Sheikh Rashid Al Maktoum married once to Sheikha Latifa bint Hamdan Al Nahyan the daughter of Sheikh Hamdan bin Zayed Al Nahyan. Al Nayhan and Al Maktoum had four sons and four daughters:

    1. Maktoum bin Rashid Al Maktoum (1943–2006).
    2. Hamdan bin Rashid Al Maktoum (born 1945).
    3. Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum (born 1949).
    4. Ahmed bin Rashid Al Maktoum (born 1950).
    5. Maryam bint Rashid Al Maktoum married to first Qatari emir, Ahmad bin Ali Al Thani.
    6. Fatima bint Rashid Al Maktoum. Married to Rashid bin Khalifa Al Maktoum one son and Daughter Mohammed and Latifa 1996
    7. Hassa bint Rashid Al Maktoum married to Ahmad bin Maktoum bin Juma Al Maktoum they have Latifa and Rashid
    8. Maitha bint Rashid Al Maktoum
    9. Shaikha bint Rashid Al Maktoum married to the Saudi Prince Abdulaziz bin Saud bin Mohammed Al Saud known as Al Samer very famous poet. They have 3 sons Rashid ( b. 1996) Saud, and Mohammed.

    Both his predecessor as Prime Minister of the UAE and his successor was his son, Sheikh Maktoum bin Rashid Al Maktoum. Sheikh Maktoum bin Rashid was the Prime Minister of United Arab Emirates from 1971 to 1979, and acceded as Ruler of Dubai on his father’s death on 7 October 1990, until his death on 4 January 2006. Following Maktoum’s death in 2006, another of Sheikh Rashid’s sons, Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum acceded to these positions and is the current Vice President and Prime Minister of the UAE and the ruler of Dubai.

    Sheikh Rashid was brother to Sheikh Ahmed bin Saeed Al Maktoum, who is presently the Chairman of Emirates Airline.

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