Yang di-Pertuan Agong from 1970 to 1975 and 2011 to 2016
Abdul Halim
عبدالحليم
Al-Mu'tassimu Billah (He who seeks help from God)
Abdul Halim in 2012
Yang di-Pertuan Agong V and XIV
First reign
21 September 1970 – 20 September 1975
Installation
20 February 1971
Predecessor
Ismail Nasiruddin
Successor
Yahya Petra
Second reign
13 December 2011 – 12 December 2016
Installation
11 April 2012
Predecessor
Mizan Zainal Abidin
Successor
Muhammad V
Sultan of Kedah
Reign
14 July 1958 – 11 September 2017
Installation
20 February 1959
Predecessor
Badlishah
Successor
Sallehuddin
Born
(1927-11-28)28 November 1927 Istana Anak Bukit, Alor Setar, Kedah, Unfederated Malay States (now Malaysia)
Died
11 September 2017(2017-09-11) (aged 89) Istana Anak Bukit, Alor Setar, Kedah, Malaysia
Burial
12 September 2017
Langgar Royal Mausoleum, Alor Setar, Kedah, Malaysia
Spouse
Sultanah Bahiyah
(m. 1956; died 2003)
Sultanah Haminah
(m. 1975)
Issue Detail
Tunku Puteri Intan Safinaz
Tunku Soraya (adopted)
Tunku Sarina (adopted)
Names
Tunku Abdul Halim ibni Tunku Badlishah
Regnal name
Al-Sultan Al-Mu’tassimu Billahi Muhibbuddin Tuanku Al-Haj Abdul Halim Mu’adzam Shah ibni Almarhum Sultan Badlishah
House
Mahawangsa
Father
Sultan Badlishah Ibni Almarhum Sultan Abdul Hamid Halim Shah
Mother
Tunku Sofiah binti Tunku Mahmud
Religion
Sunni Islam
Al-Mu’tassimu Billahi Muhibbuddin Sultan Abdul Halim Mu'adzam Shah ibni Almarhum Sultan Badlishah (Jawi: المرحوم السلطان المعتصم بالله محب الدين توانکو الحاج عبدالحليم معظم شاه ابن المرحوم سلطان بدلي شاه; 28 November 1927 – 11 September 2017) was the 28th Sultan of Kedah from 1958 until his death in 2017, the fifth Yang di-Pertuan Agong from 1970 to 1975, and again as the fourteenth from 2011 to 2016. He was the first and only ruler to reign as Yang di-Pertuan Agong twice, as well as the oldest elected to the office. Immediately prior to his death, he was the second longest-reigning living monarch in the world after Queen Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom.
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