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Mizan Zainal Abidin of Terengganu
1962Jan, 22

Mizan Zainal Abidin of Terengganu

Mizan Zainal Abidin of Terengganu, Yang di-Pertuan Agong of Malaysia
Al-Wathiqu Billah Sultan Mizan Zainal Abidin ibni Almarhum Sultan Mahmud Al-Muktafi Billah Shah (Jawi: سلطان ميزان زين العابدين ابن المرحوم سلطان محمود المكتفي بالله شاه; born 22 January 1962) is the 18th and current Sultan of Terengganu. He served as the 13th Yang di-Pertuan Agong, the constitutional monarch of Malaysia, from 2006 to 2011. He is Malay by ethnicity and an adherent of Sunni Islam.

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