"Peace to the Amir" (Arabic: السلام الأميري, romanized: As-Salām al-ʾAmīrī) is the national anthem of Qatar, written by Shaykh Mubārak bin Sayf Al-Thānī and composed by ʿAbdulʿazīz Nāṣṣir al-ʿUbaydān al-Fakhrū.
[2] "As-Salām al-ʾAmīrī" was also used as the title of the Kuwaiti national anthem from 1951 to 1978.
[citation needed] The anthem was adopted on 7 December 1996 upon the accession of Shaykh Ḥamad bin Khalīfa al-Thānī to the throne.
[3] It was first used at a Gulf Cooperation Council meeting held in Qatar in December of that year.
[4] In 2015, Shaykh Mubārak bin Sayf Al-Thānī presented the first written draft of the anthem to the Qatar National Museum, where it will be put on display.