Sultan bin Saqr Al Qasimi II

Sheikh Sultan II bin Saqr Al Qasimi was the Ruler of Sharjah, a Trucial State and now one of the United Arab Emirates, from 1924 to 1951. He was responsible for the establishment of the first airport in the Trucial States and Persian Gulf, Sharjah Airport, and the construction of Mahatta Fort to serve passengers on the Imperial Airways Empire Route.

His father having ceded the rule of Sharjah to Khalid bin Ahmad Al Qasimi, Sultan found himself dispossessed and in 1921 departed to live in exile in Dubai. In 1923, he married the daughter of Abdulrahman bin Shamsi, the headman of Al Heera.

Buoyed by Khalid's unpopularity and backed by Abdulrahman's force of personality and arms, Sultan deposed Khalid and became Ruler of Sharjah. However, he found the interior of the country dominated by Bedouin tribes and the East coast increasingly dominated by the former Ruler, Khalid bin Ahmad, leaving Sultan the effective ruler of a cluster of coastal settlements, many of which constantly tried to secede from his rule.

He is cited as having presided over a low ebb in the power of the Qawasim, formerly a powerful maritime federation.