A merchant's vision.
A pioneering merchant whose trade once reached from the Gulf to Europe — and the enterprise that still carries his name.
Mostafa Bin Abdullatif was among the pioneering merchants of his time — a respected trader who helped open business channels across the great hubs of the age: Bombay, Karachi, Kuwait, Bahrain and Dubai. Alongside fellow Arab merchants he exported regional goods to France and the United Kingdom, and established shipping routes that connected the Gulf with the wider world.
He was a steady advocate for the rights of local merchants and was instrumental in founding what would become the Chamber of Commerce in Bahrain, as well as the first bank in the Gulf. He was equally known for his charitable work, much of it recorded in the history of the region.
In 1924 he established his trading house in Dubai, a city he believed would become a meeting point for the trade routes of the Gulf, India and Europe. That conviction would shape the century that followed.
