Ghalib al-Hinai

Imam Ghalib bin Ali Al-Hinai (1912 – 29 November 2009) was the last elected Imam of the Ibadi sect in Oman, backed by the Wahhabis of Saudi Arabia he led a faction of the Ibadis from his Imamate of Oman in Nizwa and Oman proper in revolt against Sultan Said Bin Taimur through various small uprisings and attacks against the oil exploration convoys starting in 1954. The insurgency lasted 5 years until the Sultan of Oman's Armed Forces (aided by British soldiers from the Special Air Service) put down the Jebel Akhdar revolt in 1959, and Ghalib escaped to Saudi Arabia where he died on 29 November 2009 at the age of 96 in Dammam.