...Amal Sachedina Abstract Since becoming a nation-state in 1970, Oman's expanding heritage industry has included the restoration of castles and citadels, including the fort at Nizwa. The fort was once the administrative and juridical center of the Ibadi Imamate (1913–58). As the site of sharia...

..., Hadhramawt to Java, Zanzibar to Oman, Awadh to Karbala and Najaf, and the Zanj to Shiraz. © 2014 by Duke University Press 2014 Indian Ocean Mediterranean studies Middle East I would like to acknowledge Richard Bulliet, Jeffery Dyer, Aimee Genell, Christine Philliou, and Nurfadzilah Yahaya...

... for Palestine Studies, Beirut (hereafter IPS). See also Bakhtar-e Emruz , No. 45, August 1973, POA/O; Payam-e Mojahed , No. 12, May–June 1973, AFDI. 68. “Soltan-e Oman baraye yek didar-e yek hafteiy-e rasmi beh Tehran amad,” Ettela'at , March 2, 1974, 21. 69. P. Wright (London) to Weir, March...

...  © 2008 comments and criticism. I alone am responsible for the argu- Cooperation Council, which has Bahrain, Kuwait, Oman, Qatar,   ments made in this essay. Saudi Arabia, and the United Arab Emirates as its members...

... . Bloomington : Indiana University Press , 2012 . McDow Thomas F. “ Arabs and Africans: Commerce and Kinship from Oman to the East African Interior, c. 1820–1900 .” PhD diss. , Yale University , 2008 . Metcalf Thomas R. Imperial Connections: India in the Indian Ocean Arena, 1860–1920...

..., corporate original their to when related closely stable and assured always been has Gulf ofthe regions Arab the in tion language. their speaking and customs tribal their practicing villages, separate in and Oman, beside areas Gulf other in settled also tribes Baluch...

... 2014 by Duke University Press 2014 Indian Ocean Arab identity caste twentieth century Gulf Cooperation Council Manga Arabs Oman patrilineage References Bromber Katrin . “ Ustaarabu—A Conceptual Change in Tanganyikan Newspaper Discourse in the 1920s .” In The Global Worlds...

... the Hadramaut and Oman.3oAmong indicates that by linking the slave trade to post- earlier Arabists, the prolific writings of RB. Sejeant on emancipation forms of coerced and "free" African labor South Arabia are peppered with occasional references migration her efforts will contribute an important di...

... with Nineteenth-century the Khaymah. confederacy, dealing al tribal meant Ra’s Qawasim that to the efforts and and the to India, sultanate and led to Omani Oman building route particularly empire trade British states, century, the Gulf eighteenth protect the the of In some long-standing. and are UAE, Asia South...

...- teau, he made incursions into Oman, Bahrain, Local Production and Yamama, defeating Sanatruq, the king of According to the Chinese chronicle K o - ­K u - Bahrain.38 The reason for the establishment of ­Y a o , steel was also produced in Iran and then forts along...

..., and kerosene as well as American demand for Indian Ocean products, including East African ivory and Omani dates produced by enslaved Africans, as Matthew S. Hopper has shown, continued to shape western Indian Ocean exchanges with America throughout the century. 77 In these ways, Zanzibar, Oman...

... coasts of the Gulf, and the preservation of free trade. However, there is also a different account, written not by the opponents but by the allies of the East India Company. Salil ibn Ruzaiq wrote a chronicle of the Bu-Sa‘idi sultans of Muscat and Oman that focuses on the military exploits of the Bu...

...: The Arabian Gulf and Oman . Reading, UK : Ithaca Press , 2010 . Agius Dionisius A. Seafaring in the Arabian Gulf and Oman: The People of the Dhow . London : Kegan Paul International , 2005 . Amrith Sunil . Crossing the Bay of Bengal: The Furies of Nature and the Fortune of Migrants...

... of occupation. This is followed by Amal Sachedina's essay on the restoration of the Nizwa fort in Oman: as the administrative and juridical center of the Ibadi Imamate (1913–58), its memorialization is here examined in the context of an expanding Omani heritage industry and their efforts to reconfigure Ibadi...

... _ disadvantages. Abd al-Rasul c.1880–1928 Khadijah late 1800s–? Muscat (Oman): Advantages for the British _Abd al-Wahhab early–late...

... uses a longitudinal analysis of a dataset (1950–2006) to explain the relative stability of monarchies versus republics in the region, and it includes Bahrain and Oman in the set of countries spared from upheavals during this time frame and again during the Arab uprisings of 2011. Despite its fancy...

... in the Middle East, one has to understand ratization. Countries with less than 65 percent com- the values of its citizens” (2). In the first chapter, bined pluralist secularists and modernist Islamists the author breaks down democratic values into two are Oman, Libya, Yemen, Sudan, Pakistan, Nigeria...

... in the Middle East, one has to understand ratization. Countries with less than 65 percent com- the values of its citizens” (2). In the first chapter, bined pluralist secularists and modernist Islamists the author breaks down democratic values into two are Oman, Libya, Yemen, Sudan, Pakistan, Nigeria...