Dubai Properties is a property development and management company based in Dubai , United Arab Emirates . The company is a member of the Dubai Holding group . In 2009 the attorney general of Dubai stated that Hashim Al Dabal, then chairman of Dubai Properties, was arrested on "suspicion of embezzlement ". The government of Dubai announced the following year that Al Dabal was released after returning $ 35 million in public funds.
5-468: Dubai Properties core activity is the development of large scale residential and commercial property developments within the Emirate of Dubai . The portfolio of projects handled by Dubai Properties includes: This Emirati corporation or company article is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . Emirate Philosophers Works An emirate is a territory ruled by an emir ,
10-572: A state that consists of a federation of seven emirates (the United Arab Emirates ). A great number of previously independent emirates around the world are now part of larger states, as can be seen in Nigeria . Etymologically, emirate or amirate ( Arabic : إمارة imārah , plural: إمارات imārāt ) is the quality, dignity, office, or territorial competence of any emir (prince, commander, governor, etc.). In English,
15-465: A title used by monarchs or high officeholders in the Muslim world . From a historical point of view, an emirate is a political-religious unit smaller than a caliphate . It can be considered equivalent to a principality in non-Muslim contexts. Currently in the world, there are two emirates that are independent states ( Kuwait and Qatar ), one state ruled by an unrecognised emirate ( Afghanistan ), and
20-466: The federation's president and prime minister. As most emirates have either disappeared, been integrated in a larger modern state, or changed their rulers' styles, e.g. to malik (Arabic for "king") or sultan , such true emirate-states have become rare. Furthermore, in Arabic the term can be generalized to mean any province of a country that is administered by a member of the ruling class, especially of
25-557: The term is pronounced / ˈ ɛ m ər ə t , - ɪər -, - ɪ t , - eɪ t / or / ɛ ˈ m ɪər ə t , - ɪ t , - eɪ t , i ˈ -/ in British English and / ˈ ɛ m ər ə t / or / ɪ ˈ m ɪər ə t / in American English. The United Arab Emirates is a federal state that comprises seven federal emirates, each administered by a hereditary emir, these seven forming the electoral college for
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