Maktūm dynastyArticle Free Pass Maktūm dynasty, Arabic Āl Maktūm
(“Maktūm family”), ruling family of the emirate of Dubayy of the
United Arab Emirates. One of the two members of the Āl Bū
Falāsāh family to emigrate from Abū Ẓaby to Dubayy in 1833 was
Baṭī ibn Suhayl, father of Maktūm ibn Baṭī, the first ruler of
Dubayy (1833–52). Since that time, the family has played a
central role in the leadership of the emirate. The Maktūm are a
branch of the same Banū Yās confederation that includes the Āl
Nahyān, rulers of Abū Ẓaby. In the 1960s members of the Āl
Maktūm and Āl Nahyān cooperated to lay the groundwork for self-
rule in what would become the United Arab Emirates. What made
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