Editing Emir (section)

== Princely, ministerial and noble titles ==
[[File:Emir of Kano on his throne 092016.jpg|thumb|[[Kano Emirate Council|Emir of Kano]], [[Sanusi Lamido Sanusi]]]]
[[File:Prokudin-Gorskii-19-v2.png|thumb|[[Mohammed Alim Khan]], Emir of [[Emirate of Bukhara|Bukhara]], taken in 1911 by [[Sergey Prokudin-Gorsky]]]]
* The monarchs of [[Qatar]] and [[Kuwait]] are currently titled emir.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2017/06/kuwait-emir-qatar-gcc-170607195623973.html|title=Emir of Kuwait wraps up Gulf mediation visits – Qatar News – Al Jazeera|website=aljazeera.com|access-date=2018-12-31|archive-date=2017-06-07|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170607210925/https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2017/06/kuwait-emir-qatar-gcc-170607195623973.html|url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.malaysiandigest.com/frontpage/29-4-tile/711173-gulf-ministers-hold-key-talks-before-gcc-summit.html |title=Gulf Ministers Hold Key Talks Before GCC Summit |date=December 5, 2017 |website=MalaysianDigest.com |access-date=2018-01-15 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180115185351/http://www.malaysiandigest.com/frontpage/29-4-tile/711173-gulf-ministers-hold-key-talks-before-gcc-summit.html |archive-date=2018-01-15 |url-status=usurped }}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|last=Al Qasimi|first=Muhammad|title=Sheikh Dr Sultan|url=https://sheikhdrsultan.ae/Portal/en/home.aspx|access-date=2020-09-30|archive-date=2014-04-10|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140410155806/https://sheikhdrsultan.ae/Portal/en/home.aspx|url-status=live}}</ref>
* All members of the [[House of Saud]] have the title of ''emir'' (prince).<ref name="Sheikh to Chic">{{cite news|last1=Amos|first1=Deborah|title=Sheikh to Chic|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=H-cDAAAAMBAJ&pg=PA28|access-date=12 July 2016|publisher=Mother Jones|date=1991|page=28|language=en|archive-date=3 August 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200803105920/https://books.google.com/books?id=H-cDAAAAMBAJ&pg=PA28|url-status=live}}</ref><ref name="web.archive.org">{{cite web|url=https://americanbedu.com/2010/03/23/saudi-arabia-hrh-or-hh/|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160807041830/https://americanbedu.com/2010/03/23/saudi-arabia-hrh-or-hh/|url-status=dead|archive-date=7 August 2016|title=Saudi Arabia: HRH or HH? - American Bedu|date=7 August 2016}}</ref><ref name="Family Tree datarabia">{{cite web|title=Family Tree|url=http://www.datarabia.com/royals/familytree.do|website=datarabia.com|access-date=7 December 2016|language=en|archive-date=8 November 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171108031559/http://www.datarabia.com/royals/familytree.do|url-status=live}}</ref>
* The [[caliph]]s first used the title ''[[Amir al-Muminin]]'' or "Commander of the Faithful", stressing their leadership over the Islamic empire, especially over the militia. The title has been assumed by various other [[Muslim]] rulers, including [[sultan]]s and emirs. For [[Shia]] Muslims, they still give this title to the Caliph [[Ali]] as ''Amir al-Muminin''.
* The [[Abbasid]] (in theory still universal) Caliph [[Al-Radi]] created the post of ''[[Amir al-Umara]]'' ("Amir of the Amirs") for [[Ibn Raik]]; the title was used in various Islamic monarchies; see below for military use. In Iraq, the direct descendants of previous Emirs from the largest tribes who ruled the kingdoms before modern statehood, use the title of [[Sheikh]] or Prince as the progeny of royalty.<ref>{{Cite book|last=Howell|first=Georgina|title=Queen of The Desert: The Extraordinary Life of Gertrude Bell|date=15 January 2015|publisher=Pan Books |isbn=9781447286264}}</ref><ref>{{Cite book |last=Batatu |first=Hanna |title=The Old Social Classes and the Revolutionary Movements of Iraq: A Study of Iraq's Old Landed and Commercial Classes and of its Communists, Ba'thists and Free Officers |publisher=Princeton University Press |year=1978}}</ref>
* Formerly in [[Lebanon]], the ruling emir formally used the style ''al-Amir al-[[Hakim (title)|Hakim]]'', specifying it was still the ruler's title. The title was held by [[Druze]] and [[Christians]] as well.{{Citation needed|date=April 2017}}
* The word ''emir'' is also used less formally for leaders in certain contexts. For example, the leader of a group of ''pilgrims'' to [[Mecca]] is called an ''emir hadji'', a title sometimes used by ruling princes (as a mark of Muslim piety) which is sometimes awarded in their name. Where an adjectival form is necessary, "emiral" suffices.{{Citation needed|date=April 2017}}
* ''Amirzade'', the son (hence the Persian patronymic suffix ''-zade'') of a prince, hence the Persian princely title ''[[Mirza (noble)|mirza]]''.
* The [[Nigerian traditional rulers|traditional rulers]] of the predominantly Muslim northern regions of [[Nigeria]] are known as emirs, while the titular sovereign of their now defunct empire is formally styled as the [[Sultan of Sokoto]], Amir-al-Muminin (or ''Sarkin Musulmi'' in the [[Hausa language]]).{{Citation needed|date=April 2017}}
* The temporal leader of the [[Yazidi]] people is known as an emir or prince.{{Citation needed|date=April 2017}}
* [[Afghanistan]] under the government of the [[Taliban]] is officially an emirate, with the [[Leader of the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan|leader]] of the Taliban bearing the title {{Transliteration|ar|[[Amir al-Mu'minin]]}}.
* ''Amīr al-Baḥr'' ({{lang|ar|أمير البحر}}, "commander of the sea"), a position in the [[Fatimid navy]], is frequently [[folk etymology|mistaken]] as the [[etymological]] origin of the English ''[[admiral]]'', the French ''{{lang|fr|[[amiral]]}}'', and similar terms in other European languages.<ref name=oed/> The titles actually derive solely from [[Medieval Latin]] forms of emir itself,<ref name=oed>{{citation |last= |first= |editor-last= |editor-first= |contribution=admiral, ''n.'' |contribution-url=https://www.oed.com/dictionary/admiral_n |title=Oxford English Dictionary |date=2024 |publisher=Oxford University Press |location=Oxford }}.</ref> originally in reference to the "[[amir al-umara|amirs al-umara]]" of [[Norman Sicily]].
* The Constitution of [[Morocco]] uses the term [[Amir al-Mu'minin]] as the principal title of the King of Morocco, as a means to showcase the hegemonic role and Islamic legitimacy of the Monarch.<ref>{{Cite journal |last=Pennell |first=Richard |date=2016-08-07 |title=What is the significance of the title ‘Amīr al-mu'minīn?' |url=https://www.semanticscholar.org/paper/What-is-the-significance-of-the-title-%E2%80%98Am%C4%ABr-Pennell/43bc0be83f393af6ffefe276e681864510ae7288 |journal=The Journal of North African Studies |language=en |volume=21 |issue=4 |pages=623–644 |doi=10.1080/13629387.2016.1157482 |issn=1362-9387}}</ref>