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Omanis and the Truth of the British Accusations against Them of Slave Trading

al-ʻUmānīyūn wa-Ḥaqīqat al-Tuham al-Brīṭānīyah lahum bi-Tijārat al-Raqīq

العمانيون وحقيقة التهم البريطانية لهم بتجارة الرقيق

Mishʻal Mufriḥ Ẓāhir al-Shammarī
أ.م.د. مشعل مفرح ظاهر الشمري
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-016

Abstract

The subject was chosen to clarify the position of Omanis with respect to the accusations directed at them in the nineteenth century by Britain, the representative of colonialism and imperialism, which was named great by virtue of those it enslaved among Africans and Indians and which played a considerable role in tearing apart the unity of nations. The study argues that Britain took upon itself to attach these accusations — and the slave trade in particular — to Omanis in order to achieve its colonial ends, after Europe and the Americas had been filled with the sons of Africa, while those in question were citizens subject to the Omani state whom the Omanis defended and among whom they were callers to Islam and a light of guidance in the African continent. As for the cases in which sons of Africa were brought to Oman, the study holds that these were for the cultivation of land and for labour.

Keywords

Slave tradeBritish colonialismOmanNineteenth centuryEast AfricaHistorical revisionism

How to cite

Shammarī, Mishʻal Mufriḥ Ẓāhir. "al-ʻUmānīyūn wa-Ḥaqīqat al-Tuham al-Brīṭānīyah lahum bi-Tijārat al-Raqīq" [Omanis and the Truth of the British Accusations against Them of Slave Trading]. Paper presented at al-Muʼtamar al-Duwalī: al-Dawr al-ʻUmānī fī Waḥdat al-Ummah, Kuwālā Lumbūr, 2014. MHF-OMANIUNITY-016

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