Maktoum bin Butti Al Maktoum

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Maktoum bin Butti (Arabic: مكتوم بن بطي) bin Suhail Al Maktoum was the joint founder and first ruler of Dubai, today one of the United Arab Emirates, alongside Obeid bin Said bin Rashid, with whom he led a migration of the Al Bu Falasah from Abu Dhabi, seceding from the Bani Yas. Maktoum was the founder of the Al Maktoum dynasty. He was a signatory to the 1843 Maritime Truce, the precursor to the Perpetual Maritime Truce of 1853, as well as the 1847 treaty to abolish the slave trade.

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