father death_date predecessor successor birth_place allegiance birth_date image article_title name reign
sabah ii al-sabah november 28 , 1915 -lrb- age 71 -rrb- muhammad al-sabah jaber ii al-sabah kuwait city , kuwait 75px 1839 mubarak al-sabah of kuwait.jpg mubarak al-sabah
 mubarak sabah ii al-jaber i al-sabah 1896 -- 1915 -lrb- 1896 1915 years -rrb-
mubarak al-sabah

sheikh mubarak bin sabah al-sabah , kcsi , kcie -lrb- 1837 -- november 28 , 1915 -rrb- -lrb- -rrb- `` the great '' was the seventh ruler of kuwait from may 18 , 1896 until his death on november 28 , 1915 .
mubarak ascended the throne upon the controversial death of his half-brother , muhammad al-sabah .
mubarak was the seventh ruler of the al-sabah dynasty .
mubarak was also the father of two rulers of kuwait that succeeded him , jaber and salim , from which the al-jaber and al-salim in the al-sabah family branches originated from respectively .
sheikh mubarak signed the anglo-kuwaiti treaty with great britain on november 23 , 1899 , pledging himself and his successors not to receive foreign agents or representatives or to cede or sell territory without the approval of the british government , with this agreement , and the guarantee it represented in kuwait and the al-sabah family , he is regarded as the founder of modern day kuwait .
