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Social Life in Oman in the Writings of British Travellers in the First Half of the Nineteenth Century

al-Ḥayāh al-Ijtimāʻīyah fī ʻUmān fī Kitābāt al-Raḥḥālah al-Brīṭānīyīn fī al-Niṣf al-Awwal min al-Qarn al-Tāsiʻ ʻAshar

الحياة الاجتماعية في عمان في كتابات الرحالة البريطانيين في النصف الأول من القرن التاسع عشر

Jamāl Hāshim Aḥmad al-Dhuwayb
أ.م.د. جمال هاشم أحمد الذويب
Conference: International Conference: The Omani Role in the Unity of the Muslim Ummah — Kuala Lumpur, 2014
Romanized conference title: al-Muʼtamar al-Duwalī: al-Dawr al-ʻUmānī fī Waḥdat al-Ummah
Language of the paper: Arabic — this page presents the English metadata layer.
Permanent citation ID: MHF-OMANIUNITY-010

Abstract

Oman enjoyed considerable attention from foreign travellers from ancient times, owing to its strategic position overlooking three seas, its economic importance and commercial role, and its political importance as a strong independent state in the Arabian Gulf region which formed cultural, social and political extensions into Southeast Asia and the eastern coast of Africa. The first half of the nineteenth century witnessed an influx of British travellers to the various regions of Oman, due principally to the signing of treaties between the two sides. This study examines what those travellers recorded of social life in Oman — its customs, its households, its towns and its patterns of daily living — and assesses the value and the limits of these accounts as historical sources.

Keywords

British travellersSocial lifeNineteenth-century OmanTravel writingHistorical sourcesArabian Gulf

How to cite

Dhuwayb, Jamāl Hāshim Aḥmad. "al-Ḥayāh al-Ijtimāʻīyah fī ʻUmān fī Kitābāt al-Raḥḥālah al-Brīṭānīyīn fī al-Niṣf al-Awwal min al-Qarn al-Tāsiʻ ʻAshar" [Social Life in Oman in the Writings of British Travellers in the First Half of the Nineteenth Century]. Paper presented at al-Muʼtamar al-Duwalī: al-Dawr al-ʻUmānī fī Waḥdat al-Ummah, Kuwālā Lumbūr, 2014. MHF-OMANIUNITY-010

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