al-Jawānib al-Iqtiṣādīyah wa-al-Ijtimāʻīyah li-ʻUmān fī Kutub al-Raḥḥālah al-Ūrūbbīyīn fī al-Qarn al-Tāsiʻ ʻAshar al-Mīlādī: Jaymis Wilstid Unmūdhajan - Siyābīyah, Najīyah Muḥammad Sālim; al-Muʼtamar al-Duwalī: al-Dawr al-ʻUmānī fī Waḥdat al-Ummah (2014) (Kuwālā Lumbūr) (Kuwālā Lumbūr : Markaz Dhākirat ʻUmān, 2014)
Travel literature has enjoyed considerable attention from historians, the educated and the general public since the late seventeenth century, and many of the foreign travellers who visited Oman sought to record their observations, opinions and impressions of the country with precision. What was written in those works undoubtedly requires extensive study to bring out the foreign view of the various aspects of life in Oman. The nineteenth century was chosen as the temporal frame of the study for the richness of European writing on Oman in every field during that period, and because it witnessed competition among European states to establish commercial relations with Oman as colonial rivalry between Britain and France intensified over exploiting Oman's strategic position. The study aims to introduce Wellsted's journey to Oman, its circumstances and stages, and to clarify the economic and social aspects it records.
Permanent citation identifier: MHF-OMANIUNITY-009.
Text in Arabic; title also romanized (ALA-LC); abstract and keywords in English.
Keywords: James Wellsted; Travel literature; Nineteenth-century Oman; Economic history; Social history; European sources