Mīnāʼ Masqaṭ wa-Atharuhu ʻalá al-ʻAlāqāt al-Tijārīyah fī al-Qarnayn al-Sābiʻ ʻAshar wa-al-Thāmin ʻAshar al-Mīlādīyayn - Karīm, Firdaws ʻAbd al-Raḥmān; al-Muʼtamar al-Duwalī: ʻUmān wa-Duwal Janūb Sharq Āsiyā wa-al-Ṣīn: Āfāq Thaqāfīyah wa-Tārīkhīyah wa-Siyāsīyah wa-Ḥaḍārīyah (2016) (Kuwālā Lumbūr) (Kuwālā Lumbūr : Markaz Dhākirat ʻUmān, 2016)
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.
Permanent citation identifier: MHF-OMANSEAASIA-035.
Text in Arabic; title also romanized (ALA-LC); abstract and keywords in English.
Keywords: Port of Muscat; Maritime trade; Seventeenth century; Eighteenth century; Indian Ocean; Historical cartography