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Author | : John Peterson |
Publisher | : BRILL |
Total Pages | : 279 |
Release | : 2007 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 9004152660 |
An examination of the historical environment of Muscat, the capital of Oman, and the damage sustained by the city's historical legacy since 1970. It includes a historical gazetteer of Muscat and its environs and numerous maps and photographs.
Author | : Patricia Risso |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 289 |
Release | : 2016-02-12 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 1317291751 |
During the early modern period Oman held a key position in the trade routes whereby the Muslim world dominated indigenous trade in the Indian Ocean. In the second half of the eighteenth century, Oman broke free from foreign political control and became the dominant economic and naval force in the western Indian Ocean and the Gulf. This was a golden age for Omanis, when their economic power and political prestige were at their height. This study, first published in 1986, presents a detailed, comprehensive history of this important period, and includes tribal politics, the role of religion, and Oman’s relations with neighbouring areas such as Persia and East Africa. The era ends with the political and maritime pressures exerted on Oman by Britain and France, and the territorial pressures exerted by the Wahhabi Arabians.
Author | : Amal Sachedina |
Publisher | : Cornell University Press |
Total Pages | : 171 |
Release | : 2021-09-15 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1501758632 |
Cultivating the Past, Living the Modern explores how and why heritage has emerged as a prevalent force in building the modern nation state of Oman. Amal Sachedina analyses the relations with the past that undergird the shift in Oman from an Ibadi shari'a Imamate (1913–1958) to a modern nation state from 1970 onwards. Since its inception as a nation state, material forms in the Sultanate of Oman—such as old mosques and shari'a manuscripts, restored forts, national symbols such as the coffee pot or the dagger (khanjar), and archaeological sites—have saturated the landscape, becoming increasingly ubiquitous as part of a standardized public and visual memorialization of the past. Oman's expanding heritage industry, exemplified by the boom in museums, exhibitions, street montages, and cultural festivals, shapes a distinctly national geography and territorialized narrative. But Cultivating the Past, Living the Modern demonstrates there are consequences to this celebration of heritage. As the national narrative conditions the way people ethically work on themselves through evoking forms of heritage, it also generates anxieties and emotional sensibilities that seek to address the erasures and occlusions of the past.
Author | : Great Britain. Foreign Office. Historical Section |
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Total Pages | : 410 |
Release | : 1920 |
Genre | : Europe |
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Total Pages | : 392 |
Release | : 1920 |
Genre | : Economic geography |
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Total Pages | : 546 |
Release | : 1920 |
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Author | : Vincenzo Maurizi |
Publisher | : The Oleander Press |
Total Pages | : 226 |
Release | : 1984 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 9780906672334 |
Author | : Clifford Edmund Bosworth |
Publisher | : BRILL |
Total Pages | : 631 |
Release | : 2007-01-01 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9004153888 |
This book contains articles on historic cities of the Islamic world, ranging from West Africa to Malaysia, which over the centuries have been centres of culture and learning and of economic and commercial life, and which have contributed much to the consolidation of Islam as a faith and as a social and political institution. The articles have been taken from the second edition of the Encyclopaedia of Islam, completed in 2004, but in many cases expanded and rewritten. All have been updated to include fresh historical information, with note of contemporary social developments and population statistics. The book thus delineates the urban background of Islam has it has evolved up to the present day, highlighting the role of such great cities as Cairo, Istanbul, Baghdad and Delhi in Islamic history, and also brings them together in a rich panorama illustrating one of mankind's greatest achievements, the living organism of the city.
Author | : J.E. Peterson |
Publisher | : BRILL |
Total Pages | : 647 |
Release | : 2024-06-06 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 9004697012 |
Oman's 1970 coup launched a new political and economic structure that was created by and for Sultan Qaboos. The initially haphazard construction matured into a durable structure that continues under Sultan Haitham. This work details the early construction of the Qabusid state in the 1970s-1980s, emphasizing the interplay between personalities and the process of institutionalization. The narrative continues to the present demonstrating the resilience of the Qaboosid system.
Author | : Patricia Risso |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 283 |
Release | : 2016-02-12 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 131729176X |
During the early modern period Oman held a key position in the trade routes whereby the Muslim world dominated indigenous trade in the Indian Ocean. In the second half of the eighteenth century, Oman broke free from foreign political control and became the dominant economic and naval force in the western Indian Ocean and the Gulf. This was a golden age for Omanis, when their economic power and political prestige were at their height. This study, first published in 1986, presents a detailed, comprehensive history of this important period, and includes tribal politics, the role of religion, and Oman’s relations with neighbouring areas such as Persia and East Africa. The era ends with the political and maritime pressures exerted on Oman by Britain and France, and the territorial pressures exerted by the Wahhabi Arabians.