Abdullah II bin Al-Hussein is King of Jordan, having ascended the throne on 7 February 1999. He is a member of the Hashemite dynasty, who have been the reigning royal family of Jordan since 1921, and is considered a 41st-generation direct descendant of the Islamic prophet Muhammad.
Abdullah II in 2020
Prince Abdullah (age 2) and Prince Faisal with their parents, King Hussein and Princess Muna, in 1964
Abdullah, age 11, during a 1973 visit to the Royal Jordanian Air Force headquarters
Abdullah welcomed by US Secretary of Defense William Cohen during his first visit to the United States as king in 1999
The Hashemites, also House of Hashim, are the royal family of Jordan, which they have ruled since 1921, and were the royal family of the kingdoms of Hejaz (1916–1925), Syria (1920), and Iraq (1921–1958). The family had ruled the city of Mecca continuously from the 10th century, frequently as vassals of outside powers, and ruled the thrones of the Hejaz, Syria, Iraq, and Jordan following their World War I alliance with the British Empire.
Hussein bin Ali, Sharif of Mecca (1853–1931), the founder of the modern dynasty
King Faisal I of Iraq and King Ali of Hejaz
The family tree of the Hashemite dynasty
The sons of Hussein: Ali, Abdullah and Faisal, in the mid-1920s
