Editing Qaboos bin Said (section)

{{short description|Sultan of Oman from 1970 to 2020}}
{{redirect|Qaboos||Qabus}}
{{Family name hatnote|lang=Arabic|[[Al Said]]}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=January 2020}}
{{Infobox royalty
| image        = Omani Qaboos bin Said Al Said 2 (cropped).jpg
| caption      = Sultan Qaboos in 2013
| alt          = A photo of Qaboos aged 73
| succession   = [[Sultan of Oman]]<br />[[Ministry of Finance (Oman)|Minister of Finance]], [[Ministry of Defence (Oman)|Defence]] and [[Ministry of Foreign Affairs (Oman)|Foreign&nbsp;Affairs]]
| reign        = {{nowrap|23 July 1970 – 10 January 2020}}
{{labeldata|Prime&nbsp;Minister|[[Tariq bin Taimur Al Said|Tariq bin Taimur]] (1970–1972)<br />Himself (1972–2020)}}
| predecessor  = [[Said bin Taimur]]
| successor    = [[Haitham bin Tariq]]
| succession1  = [[Prime Minister of Oman]]
{{labeldata|In office|2 January 1972 – 10 January 2020<ref>{{Cite book |last=Allen |first=Calvin H. |title=Oman under Qaboos: from coup to constitution, 1970-1996 |last2=Rigsbee |first2=W. Lynn |date=2000 |publisher=Frank Cass |isbn=978-0-7146-5001-2 |location=London; Portland, OR}}</ref>}}
{{labeldata|Deputy|[[Fahd bin Mahmoud al Said]] (1972–2020)<br />[[Fahr bin Taimur al Said]] (1976–1996)<br />[[Qais Bin Abdul Munim Al Zawawi]] (1982–1995)<br />[[Thuwaini bin Shihab al Said]] (?–1984–2010)<br />[[Asa'ad bin Tariq Al Said|Asa'ad bin Tariq]] (2017–2020)}}
| predecessor1 = [[Tariq bin Taimur Al Said|Tariq bin Taimur]]
| successor1   = [[Haitham bin Tariq]]
| birth_date   = {{Birth date|1940|11|18|df=y}}
| birth_place  = [[Salalah]], [[Muscat and Oman]]<br>(present day [[Dhofar Governorate]], Oman)
| death_date   = {{Death date and age|2020|01|10|1940|11|18|df=y}}
| death_place  = [[Seeb, Oman|Seeb]], [[Muscat Governorate]], Oman<ref name="OjzOF">{{cite web |last1=Zacharias |first1=Anna |title=Oman's long night: from rumour to reality as a nation learns of Sultan Qaboos' death |url=https://www.thenational.ae/world/gcc/oman-s-long-night-from-rumour-to-reality-as-a-nation-learns-of-sultan-qaboos-death-1.962954 |publisher=[[The National (Abu Dhabi)|The National]] |access-date=14 January 2020 |date=11 January 2020}}</ref>
{{labeldata|Buried|11 January 2020<ref name="EE5fG">{{cite news |last1=Liz |first1=Sly |title=Oman's Sultan Qaboos is buried as his successor is named |url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/middle_east/omans-sultan-qaboos-is-buried-as-his-successor-is-named/2020/01/11/f09e3186-3475-11ea-9313-6cba89b1b9fb_story.html |access-date=4 March 2020 |newspaper=The Washington Post |date=11 Jan 2020}}</ref>
<br />Royal Cemetery, Muscat}}
| full name    = Qaboos bin Said bin Taimur bin Faisal bin Turki bin Said Al Said
| spouse       = {{marriage|[[Nawwal bint Tariq Al Said|Nawwal bint Tariq]]|1976|1979|end=divorced}}
| house        = [[Al Bu Said dynasty|Al Bu Said]]
| father       = [[Said bin Taimur]]
| mother       = [[Mazoon bint Ahmad Al Mashani|Mazoon bint Ahmad]]
| religion     = [[Ibadi Islam]]
| signature    = File:Sultan Qaboos bin Said signature.jpg
| signature_alt = Signature of Sultan Qaboos
}}

'''Qaboos bin Said Al Said''' ({{langx|ar|قابوس بن سعيد آل سعيد|Qābūs ibn Saʿīd Āl Saʿīd}}, {{IPA|ar|qaː.buːs bin sa.ʕiːd ʔaːl sa.ʕiːd|IPA}}; 18 November 1940 – 10 January 2020) was [[Sultan of Oman]] from 23 July 1970 until his death in 2020. A fifteenth-generation descendant of the founder of the [[Al Bu Said dynasty]],<ref name="hIaea">{{cite encyclopedia |title=Qaboos bin Said |encyclopedia= Webster's New World Encyclopedia |url= https://archive.org/details/webstersnewworl000newy/page/694/mode/2up?view=theater&q=%22Qaboos+bin+Said%22 |url-access=registration |page=694 |isbn= 0-671-85017-2 |publisher= [[Macmillan Inc.]] |year= 1994 |location= New York}}</ref> he was the longest-serving leader in the [[Middle East]] and [[Arab world]] at the time of his death,<ref name="ArEOG">{{cite web|title=Can Oman's Stability Outlive Sultan Qaboos?|url=http://www.mei.edu/content/can-oman%E2%80%99s-stability-outlive-sultan-qaboos|website=Middle East Institute|access-date=1 March 2017}}</ref> having ruled for almost half a century.

The only son of [[Said bin Taimur]], [[List of rulers of Oman|Sultan of Muscat and Oman]], Qaboos was educated in [[Suffolk]], [[England]]. After graduating from the [[Royal Military Academy Sandhurst]], he served briefly in the [[British Army]]. He returned to Oman in 1966 and was the subject of considerable restrictions from his father. In 1970, Qaboos ascended to the Omani throne after overthrowing his father in a [[1970 Omani coup d'état|coup d'état]], with British support. The country was subsequently renamed the [[Sultanate of Oman]].

As sultan, Qaboos implemented a policy of modernization and ended Oman's international isolation. His reign saw a rise in the country's living standards, the abolition of slavery, the end of the [[Dhofar Rebellion]], and the promulgation of [[Basic Statute of Oman|Oman's constitution]]. Suffering from poor health in later life, Qaboos died in 2020. He had no children, so he entailed the royal court to reach consensus on a successor upon his death. As a precaution, he hid a letter which named his successor in case an agreement was not achieved. After his death, the royal court named his intended successor, his cousin [[Haitham bin Tariq]], as sultan.