Mubarak bin Mohammed Al Nahyan
{{Short description|Emirati royal and politician (1935–2010)}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=June 2023}}
{{Family name hatnote|lang=Arabic|Al Nahyan}}
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| office = Minister of Interior
| term_start = 9 December 1971
| term_end = 20 November 1990
| president = Zayed bin Sultan Al Nahyan
| primeminister = {{plainlist|
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| predecessor = Office established
| successor = Hammouda bin Ali
| mother =
| spouse =
| birth_date = 1935
| death_date = {{death date and age|2010|2|24|1935|df=yes}}
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|allegiance = Abu Dhabi
|branch = Abu Dhabi Police
|serviceyears = 1961–1990
|rank = Major General
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Mubarak bin Mohammed Al Nahyan (1935–2010) was an Emirati royal and the first interior minister of the United Arab Emirates. He also held other public posts which were mostly security-related.
Early life
Al Nahyan was born in 1935.{{cite book|title=Who's Who in the Arab World 2007-2008|edition=18th|location=Beirut|publisher=Publitec Publications|isbn=978-3-11-093004-7|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=NHCQBAFMwawC&pg=PA603|year=2011|page=603}} He was the second son of Mohammed bin Khalifa Al Nahyan{{cite thesis|author=Mansoor Obaid Al Mansoori|title=Charismatic leadership characteristics of President Sheikh Zayed bin Sultan Al Nahyan of the United Arab Emirates|id={{ProQuest|305265590}}|isbn=978-0-496-51856-2|location=University of La Verne|page=82|url=https://www.proquest.com/docview/305265590|degree=DPA|year=2003}} and grandson of Khalifa bin Zayed Al Nahyan.{{cite journal|author=Christopher M. Davidson|title=After Shaikh Zayed: the politics of succession in Abu Dhabi and the United Arab Emirates|journal=Middle East Policy|date=Spring 2006|volume=XIII|issue=1|doi=10.1111/j.1475-4967.2006.00237.x|author-link=Christopher Davidson|page=50}} Mubarak's elder brother was Hamdan. He also had younger brothers, Tahnoun and Saif.
Career
Mubarak was close to the rulers of Abu Dhabi. During the reign of Shakhbut bin Sultan, he was named as the director of the police and the public security department in 1961. He replaced Sultan bin Shakbut Al Nahyan as the director of the Abu Dhabi Police.{{cite book|chapter=Abu Dhabi Police Ministry of Interior United Arab Emirates (UAE)|chapter-format=Conference paper|chapter-url=https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/5995922|publisher=IEEE International Technology Management Conference
|access-date=9 November 2022|year=2011|doi=10.1109/ITMC.2011.5995922|title=First International Technology Management Conference|pages=iii-v
|isbn=978-1-61284-951-5}} In May 1964 Sheikh Shakhbut removed Bill Edge, a British citizen, from office who had been serving as the commander (it was labelled as commandant) and chairman of the Abu Dhabi Police since 1961 and appointed Mubarak Al Nahyan to this post.{{cite journal|author1=Athol Yates|author2=Ash Rossiter|title=Forging a force: rulers, professional expatriates, and the creation of Abu Dhabi's Police|journal=Middle Eastern Studies|doi=10.1080/00263206.2020.1804878|year=2020|volume=56
|issue=6|pages=1010–1012|s2cid=225410572}}
When Zayed bin Sultan succeeded Shakhbut bin Sultan as the ruler of Abu Dhabi in 1966, Mubarak and his brothers, Hamdan, Tahnoun and Saif, assumed major roles due to the fact that Zayed bin Sultan's sons were very young to hold these posts. Mubarak Al Nahyan retained his post as commander of the Abu Dhabi Police under Sheikh Zayed. In 1967 Mubarak Al Nahyan was promoted from the rank of colonel to that of major general. He became the minister of interior of Abu Dhabi in June 1971.
Immediately after the establishment of the United Arab Emirates on 2 December 1971 Mubarak was appointed minister of interior on 9 December to the cabinet led by Maktoum bin Rashid Al Maktoum.{{cite journal
|title=Chronology November 16, 1971-February 15, 1972|journal=The Middle East Journal|date=Spring 1972|volume=26|issue=2|jstor=4324910
|page=175}} Therefore, Mubarak is the first Emirati official to hold this post.{{cite web|title=First government of the United Arab Emirates|access-date=7 February 2023|url=https://www.agda.ae/en/catalogue/tna/fco/8/1569/n/219|publisher=Arabian Gulf Digital Archive
|page=219|year=1971|format=British diplomatic document}} He was also appointed minister of interior to the second cabinet of Al Maktoum formed on 23 December 1973.{{cite journal|title=Chronology November 16, 1973-February 15, 1974|journal=The Middle East Journal|volume=28
|issue=2|year=1974|jstor=4325214|page=167}}
Mubarak was also made a member of the Abu Dhabi's executive council in December 1973. His term as the commander of the Abu Dhabi Police ended in 1974, and he was replaced by Mohammed Jumaa Al Dhaheri in the post. Mubarak continued to serve as the interior minister of the United Arab Emirates until 20 November 1990.{{cite book|author1=Cliff Lord|author2=Athol Yates|title=The Military and Police Forces of the Gulf States|volume=1: Trucial States and United Arab Emirates, 1951–1980|publisher=Helion & Company Limited|year=2019|isbn=978-1-912866-80-9|page=3|location=Warwick|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=JFAIEAAAQBAJ&pg=PT3}}{{Cite web|author=Khaled Al Badri|date=20 January 2006|title=مجلس الوزراء من 1971 وحتى 1997 - 6 تشكيلات تخللها 11 تعديلا على مدى أكثر من ثلاثة عقود|language=ar-AR
|website=alittihad.ae|url=https://www.alittihad.ae/article/46175/2006/مجلس-الوزراء-من-1971-وحتى-1997----6-تشكيلات-تخللها-11-تعديلا-على-مدى-أكثر-من-ثلاثة-عقود|access-date=25 July 2023}} Hammouda bin Ali succeeded him as interior minister.
Personal life and death
His eldest son is Nahyan bin Mubarak Al Nahyan, an Emirati politician. His other son, Hamdan, served as the chairman of Abu Dhabi’s Civil Aviation Department and chairman of Gulf Air.
Mubarak Al Nahyan was seriously injured in a road accident in the United Kingdom in 1979. He died on 24 February 2010.{{cite news|author=Rym Ghazal|title=Nation mourns Sheikh Mubarak|work=The National|date=25 February 2010
|url=https://www.thenationalnews.com/uae/nation-mourns-sheikh-mubarak-1.587825|access-date=9 November 2022}}
Awards and legacy
Mubarak Al Nahyan was the recipient of the Zayed 2nd Order, the Order of King Abdulaziz and the Qatar Collar of Merit. In 2022 a prize was instituted in memory of him, Sheikh Mubarak bin Mohammed Prize for Natural History.{{cite news|title='We owe it to our children to preserve our biodiversity,' says Nahyan bin Mubarak|url=https://www.wam.ae/en/details/1395303063569|access-date=9 November 2022 |work=Emirates News Agency|date=5 July 2022|location=Abu Dhabi}}
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