Saif bin Hamad Al Sharqi

In this Arabic name, the surname is Al Sharqi.

Sheikh Saif bin Hamad Al Sharqi was the Sheikh of Fujairah from 1936–1938 and head of the Sharqiyin tribe.^[1]

Saif bin Hamad Al Sharqi
Sheikh
Ruler of Fujairah
Reign	1936–1938[note 1]
Predecessor	Hamad bin Abdullah Al Sharqi
Successor	Mohammed bin Hamad Al Sharqi
House	Al Sharqi

Nominally a dependency of Sharjah, then Abu Dhabi,^[2] Fujairah was effectively independent following a number of conflicts, not least of which were with its neighbours, the Sharjah dependencies of Kalba and Khor Fakkan.^[3]

Sheikh Said bin Hamad took over from his long-lived and strong father Hamad Al Sharqi, who had fought all his life for independence for Fujairah from Sharjah and for British recognition of Fujairah as a Trucial State in its own right. That dream would come true for his younger brother, Mohammed bin Hamad, who acceded in 1938 or 1939 on Saif's death.^[4]

Notes

1. Sources disagree on the dates of Saif's rule. Heard-Bey puts it as 'early 1930s until 1939', while Zahlan has him dying in 1938.