Faisal Bin Shamlan
| Faisal Othman Bin Shamlan | |
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| Minister of Oil and Mineral Resources | |
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In office October 1994 – March 1995 |
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| President | Ali Abdullah Saleh |
| Prime Minister | Abdul Aziz Abdul Ghani |
| Succeeded by | Muhammad Said al-Attar |
| Member of the House of Representatives | |
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In office 22 May 1990 – 2003 |
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| Member of the Supreme People's Council | |
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In office 1971 – 22 May 1990 |
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| Minister of Public Works and Transport | |
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In office 1967–1969 |
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| President | Qahtan Muhammad al-Shaabi |
| Prime Minister | Faysal al-Shaabi |
| Personal details | |
| Born | 1934 Hadhramaut, Aden Protectorate |
| Died | 1 January 2010 (aged 74) Aden, Yemen |
| Political party | Yemeni Free Forum |
| Alma mater |
Kingston University Bakht al-Ridha Institute |
Faisal Othman Bin Shamlan (1934 – 1 January 2010) (فيصل عثمان بن شملان) (faiṣal bin šamlān) was a Yemeni intellectual, technocrat, political reformist and public figure. He was a Yemeni member of parliament who had held the post of Oil and Mineral Resources Minister in the post-unification government of Yemen. Prior to the reunification of Yemen in 1990, Shamlan was the Minister of Infrastructure and Oil in the socialist government of South Yemen. He was the recognized presidential candidate of the Yemeni opposition coalition, a coalition which consists of the Islamist Islah, the Yemen Socialist Party and several smaller parties, in the 2006 presidential election, but was defeated by incumbent president Ali Abdullah Saleh.
Originally from Hadhramaut, Shamlan was educated in the elite Ghayl ba-Wazeer School [ġail bā wazīr], which was one of the best schools in Yemen and beyond at the time. He then got a scholarship to Sudan to further his education in Bakht al-Ridha Institute (bakht al-riḍa). From there he went to study Civil Engineering at Kingston University, in London, United Kingdom.
Bin Shamlan, along with his school mates, played an important role in the history of modern Yemen. As a young activist, he was a mild Islamic nationalist, who, with other intellectuals from Hadhramaut and other parts of Yemen, was a pioneering activist in a moderate Islamic thought movement. But he preserved an independent position at the centre of the political spectrum.
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