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The Port of Muscat and Its Effect on Commercial Relations in the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries

Mīnāʼ Masqaṭ wa-Atharuhu ʻalá al-ʻAlāqāt al-Tijārīyah fī al-Qarnayn al-Sābiʻ ʻAshar wa-al-Thāmin ʻAshar al-Mīlādīyayn

ميناء مسقط وأثره على العلاقات التجارية في القرنين السابع عشر والثامن عشر الميلاديين

Firdaws ʻAbd al-Raḥmān Karīm (Department of History, College of Arts, Mustansiriyah University)
أ.م.د. فردوس عبد الرحمن كريم
Conference: International Conference: Oman and the Countries of Southeast Asia and China — Cultural, Historical, Political and Civilizational Horizons — Kuala Lumpur, 2016
Romanized conference title: al-Muʼtamar al-Duwalī: ʻUmān wa-Duwal Janūb Sharq Āsiyā wa-al-Ṣīn: Āfāq Thaqāfīyah wa-Tārīkhīyah wa-Siyāsīyah wa-Ḥaḍārīyah
Language of the paper: Arabic — this page presents the English metadata layer.
Permanent citation ID: MHF-OMANSEAASIA-035

Abstract

The geographic position of Muscat played a prominent role in its commercial activity, and that role was without doubt reflected in the economic life of Oman and in its relations with the countries of Southeast Asia. The name of the port of Muscat appeared on many maritime charts confirming the city's importance as a principal port lying on the world trade routes of the period. On the spice map issued in 1649, Muscat appeared prominently as an important meeting point for trade between the Mediterranean and the Indian Ocean, where spices, tea, gold, ivory, silk, Chinese porcelain and other goods were carried from India and China by boat to the region of the Arabian Gulf. Many states and trading and shipping companies sent exploratory missions to discover the coast of Muscat and learn the nature of its terrain, and in a drawing dating to the eighteenth century one artist wrote that the port of Muscat is the only port in which ships remain safe at all times.

Keywords

Port of MuscatMaritime tradeSeventeenth centuryEighteenth centuryIndian OceanHistorical cartography

How to cite

Karīm, Firdaws ʻAbd al-Raḥmān. "Mīnāʼ Masqaṭ wa-Atharuhu ʻalá al-ʻAlāqāt al-Tijārīyah fī al-Qarnayn al-Sābiʻ ʻAshar wa-al-Thāmin ʻAshar al-Mīlādīyayn" [The Port of Muscat and Its Effect on Commercial Relations in the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries]. Paper presented at al-Muʼtamar al-Duwalī: ʻUmān wa-Duwal Janūb Sharq Āsiyā wa-al-Ṣīn: Āfāq Thaqāfīyah wa-Tārīkhīyah wa-Siyāsīyah wa-Ḥaḍārīyah, Kuwālā Lumbūr, 2016. MHF-OMANSEAASIA-035

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