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Cultivating the Past, Living the Modern
Cultivating the Past, Living the
Modern explores how and why heritage has
emerged as a prevalent force in building the modern nation state of
Oman. Amal Sachedina analyses the relations with the past
that undergird the shift in Oman from an Ibadi shari'a
Imamate (1913-1958) to a modern nation state from 1970 onwards.
Since its inception as a nation state, material forms in the
Sultanate of Oman-such as old mosques and shari'a
manuscripts, restored forts, national symbols such as the coffee
pot or the dagger ( khanjar ), and archaeological sites-have
saturated the landscape, becoming increasingly ubiquitous as part
of a standardized public and visual memorialization of the past.
Oman's expanding heritage industry, exemplified by the boom in
museums, exhibitions, street montages, and cultural festivals,
shapes a distinctly national geography and territorialized
narrative.
But Cultivating the Past, Living the Modern
demonstrates there are consequences to this celebration of
heritage. As the national narrative conditions the way people
ethically work on themselves through evoking forms of heritage, it
also generates anxieties and emotional sensibilities that seek to
address the erasures and occlusions of the past.
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Historical Muscat
An examination of the historical environment of Muscat, the capital of Oman, and the damage sustained by the city's historical legacy since 1970. It includes a historical gazetteer of Muscat and its environs and numerous maps and photographs.
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Taming the Great Desert
Located at the margins of the Rub Al-Khali desert, a place of interactions between settled and nomadic populations, the Adam oasis occupies a pivotal role in the history of Oman. However, almost nothing was known about its foundation and early developments. In 2006, the French Archaeological Mission in Central Oman began the exploration of the area. After ten years of field research using innovative methods and technologies, much is now revealed about the importance of Adam in the prehistory and early history of Oman. This is the first monograph about the research carried out at Adam and it includes seven chapters written by specialists directly involved in the field activities. Each major period is described in detail, including evidence of Palaeolithic occupation, Neolithic settlements, Early and Middle Bronze Age necropolises, Iron Age ritual sites and also an ethnographic study of the traditional water sharing within the oasis.
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Taming the Great Desert
This is the first monograph to present research at the Adam oasis, located at the margins of the Rub Al-Khali desert, Oman. Major periods are described, with evidence of Palaeolithic occupation, Neolithic settlements, Early and Middle Bronze Age necropolises, and Iron Age ritual sites. An ethnographic study of traditional water sharing is included.
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A sultanate that endures : Oman in the world from Qaboos bin Sa'id to Haitham bin Tariq
Qaboos bin Sa'id, Sultan of Oman from 1970 until his death in 2020, marked Omani history. He belonged to that very small circle of leaders who solemnized their time in power, transforming the Sultanate by empowering generations of citizens to lead constructive and fulfilling lives. Joseph Kéchichian provides a full assessment of the fourteenth Al Sa'id dynasty sovereign, setting out his vision for what was then a relatively isolated nation, championing the necessity for alliances, investing in people as well as the land, and founding key institutions that evolved over five decades.
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Trade and Empire in Muscat and Zanzibar
M. Reda Bhacker looks at the role of Oman in the Indian Ocean prior to British domination of the region. Omani merchant communities played a crucial part in the development of commercial activity throughout the territories they held in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, especially between Muscat and Zanzibar, using long established trade networks. They were also largely responsible for the integration of the commerce of the Indian Ocean into the nascent global capitalist system.
The author, himself a member of an important Omani merchant family, looks in detail at the complex relationship between the merchant community and Oman's rulers, first the Ya'ariba and then the Albusaidis. He analyses the tribal and religious dynamics of Omani politics both in Arabia, where he looks especially at the Wahhabi/Saudi threat, and in Oman's sprawling `empire', with particular reference to Zanzibar where the Omani ruler Sa'id b Sultan had his court from 1840. His aim is to consider all Oman's overseas territories as a single entity, without the usual misleading compartmentalisation of African and Arab history.
Dr Bhacker finds that despite their prestige and influence in the region neither the merchant communities nor the government were able to respond to Britain's determined onslaught. Bhacker traces the local and regional factors that allowed Britain to destroy Oman's largely commercial challenge and to emerge by the end of the nineteenth century as the commercially and politically dominant power in the region.
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