Sheikh Shakhbut bin Dhiyab Al Nahyan (Arabic: شخبوط بن ذياب بن عيسى آل نهيان) was the Ruler of the Emirate of Abu Dhabi from 1793 to 1816,[1] now part of the United Arab Emirates (UAE).
In 1761 Shakhbut's father, Dhiyab bin Isa, sent a hunting party from Liwa which tracked a gazelle to a brackish spring on the island.
In 1793, Dhiyab ordered Shakbut to move to the island; he did, and built a village and fort there near a freshwater spring.
[1] Hilal and Yafoor are identified as his sons in the 1845 Memoranda on the Tribes of the Arabian Shores of the Persian Gulf of Lieutenant AB Kembal, Assistant Resident at Bushire.
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