Majīd ibn Saʿid

…the interests of Zanzibar’s Sultan Mājid and his successor, Barghash, with whom he concluded an antislavery treaty in 1873. Although he induced the British government to discourage Egyptian expansion along the East African coast (1875), he could not persuade the British government to defend the sultan when the Germans began…

…(1856–66), while Zanzibar went to Mājid (reigned 1856–70). In Zanzibar the Āl Bū Saʿīd family remained in power even under the British protectorate (1890–1963) but were overthrown in 1964 when Zanzibar was incorporated into Tanzania.