Sheikh Saeed II bin Maktum

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His Highness Sheikh Saeed II bin Maktum was emir of Dubai from November 1912 to April 15 1929 and April 18 1929 to September 1958. He was the son of Sheikh Maktum II bin Hushur, the emir from 1894 to 1906. He succeeded his distant uncle Sheikh Bati bin Suhayl (see family tree of the Al Maktoum rulers). In 1929, he was briefly deposed and succeeded by Sheikh Mani bin Rashid, a distant uncle. Three days later he was restored and reigned until his death in 1958.

Although Dubai (and other surrounding areas) fell under an economic depression in the 1920s (due to its great reliance on pearling), he managed, with the help of a progressive trade policy, to raise Dubai's economics and limit the reliance on pearling. He was succeeded by Rashid II bin Said Al Maktoum.