Order of Mubarak the Great
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TypeOrder
Awarded forHeads of State and Royals.
StatusCurrently constituted
SovereignMishal Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah
| Order of Mubarak the Great (Wisam Mubarak al-Kabir) | |
|---|---|
Awarded by  Kuwait | |
| Type | Order |
| Awarded for | Heads of State and Royals. |
| Status | Currently constituted |
| Sovereign | Mishal Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah |
| Grades | Collar Grand Cordon |
| Precedence | |
| Next (lower) | Order of Kuwait |
 Ribbon bar of the order | |
The Order of Mubarak the Great (Wisam Mubarak al-Kabir) is a knighthood order of Kuwait.[citation needed]
The Order was founded on 16 July 1974 by the national government to celebrate the memory of Mubarak Al-Sabah called the Great, Sheikh of Kuwait from 1896 to 1915, who succeeded in 1897 in obtaining an independence recognition from the Ottoman Empire in favour of Kuwait.
Recipients
The Order is awarded to Heads of State and foreign Sovereigns and to members of foreign royal families in sign of friendship.
- Mohammad Reza Pahlavi (1974)
- Hussein of Jordan (1974)
- Soeharto (1977)
- Elizabeth II (1979)
- Jigme Singye Wangchuck (1990)
- George H. W. Bush (1993)
- Charles, Prince of Wales (1993)
- Bill Clinton (1994)
- Naruhito, then Crown Prince of Japan (1995)
- Mahathir Mohamad (1997)
- Émile Lahoud (2000)
- Abdullah of Saudi Arabia (2000)
- Mohammed VI of Morocco (2002)
- Hamad bin Isa Al Khalifa (2004)
- Michel Suleiman (2009)
- Nicolas Sarkozy (2009)
- Ilham Aliyev (2009)
- Qaboos bin Said al Said (2009)
- Bashar al-Assad (2010)
- Giorgio Napolitano (2010)
- Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani (2013)
- Hassanal Bolkiah (2015)
- Salman of Saudi Arabia (2016)
- Kolinda Grabar-Kitarović (2017)
- Haitham bin Tariq (2024)
- Narendra Modi (2024)