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ISBN10: 0415079977, ISBN13: 9780415079976, [publisher: Routledge] Hardcover First Edition Used book that is in excellent condition. May show signs of wear or have minor defects.
[Mishawaka, IN, U.S.A.] [Publication Year: 1992]

ISBN10: 0415079977, ISBN13: 9780415079976, [publisher: Routledge, London] Hardcover First Edition xxix, 278 pp., map, glossary, notes, biblio. index, previous owner’s name inscribed verso lower cover, otherwise copy in mint condition. M. Reda Bhacker looks at the role of Oman in the Indian Ocean prior to British domination of the region. Omani merchant communities played a crucial part in the development of commercial activity throughout the territories they held in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, especially between Muscat and Zanzibar, using long established trade networks. They were also largely responsible for the integration of the commerce of the Indian Ocean into the nascent global capitalist system. The author, himself a member of an important Omani merchant family, looks in detail at the complex relationship between the merchant community and Oman's rulers, first the Ya'ariba and then the Albusaidis. He analyses the tribal and religious dynamics of Omani politics both in Arabia, where he looks especially at the Wahhabi/Saudi threat, and in Oman's sprawling 'empire', with particular reference to Zanzibar where the Omani ruler Sa'id b Sultan had his court from 1840. His aim is to consider all Oman's overseas territories as a single entity, without the usual misleading compartmentalisation of African and Arab history. Dr Bhacker finds that despite their prestige and influence in the region neither the merchant ...
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Oxford Routledge 1992 Hard cover New. Sewn binding. Cloth over boards. 312 p. Translation Studies.

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Oxford Routledge 1992 Hard cover New. Sewn binding. Cloth over boards. 312 p. Translation Studies.

ISBN10: 0415079977, ISBN13: 9780415079976, [publisher: Routledge] Hardcover
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