File 8/52 MUSCAT STATE AFFAIRS: SHAIKH ISSA BIN SALEH AND HIS FATHER'S CAREER (SHAIKH OF OMAN)
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This file consists of a report entitled 'Sketch of the Careers of Saleh Bin Ali and his son Isa Bin Saleh: The Stormy Petrels of Oman Politics.' Written by the Political Agent and Consul at Muscat, the report comprises an account of the career of Saleh bin Ali bin Nasir of the El Harth tribe [Sh...
File 8/52 Muscat States Affairs: Shaikh Issa bin Saleh and his Father's Carreer (Shaikh of Oman)
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This file concerns relations between the Sultan of Muscat and Oman [Sa‘īd bin Taymūr Āl Sa‘īd] and Isa bin Salih [Shaikh ‘Īsá bin Ṣāliḥ al-Ḥārthī]. The correspondence, of which around half is written in Arabic, features the following principal correspondents: the Political Agent and Consul, Musc...
File 8/54 MUSCAT STATE AFFAIRS: AFFAIRS OF MEMBERS OF RULING FAMILY
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This file relates to the financial affairs of the ruling family of Muscat. The correspondence mainly concerns British objections to an arrangement by which the Muscat State acts as a debt collecting agency on behalf of creditors against members of the ruling family. The system reportedly encoura...
File 8/54 Muscat State Affairs: Affairs of members of ruling family
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This file concerns members of the ruling family of Muscat. Most of the file relates to the financial affairs of Dhiyab bin Fahad [Dhiyab bin Fahad bin Turkī Āl Bū Sa‘īd], a cousin of the Sultan of Muscat and Oman [Sa‘īd bin Taymūr Āl Bū Sa‘īd]. The correspondence begins with a request from Dhiya...
File 8/56 MUSCAT STATE AFFAIRS: SAIYID HAMOOD BIN FAISAL
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This file relates to Sayyid Hamoud bin Faisal [Sayyid Hamūd bin Fayṣal Āl Bū Sa‘īd], an uncle of the Sultan of Muscat and Oman [Sa‘īd bin Taymūr Āl Bū Sa‘īd], and a resident of Zanzibar. The correspondence concerns a request from Hamoud bin Faisal for the renewal of his monthly allowance (also...
File 8/60 MUSCAT STATE AFFAIRS: MUSSANNAH AND YAL SA'AD.
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This file relates to the Yal Sa`ad [Yāl Sa‘d], a tribe based on the Batinah coast. The correspondence discusses the reported resistance of Yal Sa`ad tribesmen to the establishment of customs houses in the area. It also discusses reported smuggling and slave trafficking by the tribe, and the grou...
This file relates to the Shaikh of Fujairah (transliterations vary throughout), Hamad bin Abdullah [Shaikh Ḥamad bin ‘Abdullāh Āl Sharqī], and his relations with the Shaikh of Shargah [Sharjah]. The correspondence begins with reports that the Shaikh of Fujairah – nominally considered to be subo...
This file concerns the claim of the Sultan of Muscat and Oman [Sa‘īd bin Taymūr Āl Bū Sa‘īd] to Fujairah (transliterations vary throughout). The correspondence begins with the reported death of Shaikh Saif bin Hamad ash-Sharqi [Shaikh Saif bin Ḥamad Āl Sharqī], Ruler of Fujairah, on 24 December ...
File 8/62 MUSCAT STATE AFFAIRS: PRINCIPAL SHAIKHS & TRIBES OF OMAN
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This file consists of a list, sent by the Political Agent and Consul at Muscat to the Political Resident in the Persian Gulf, showing the names of the current shaikhs of the principal tribes of Oman. The list, which contains the names of around seventy individuals, is followed by an extensive in...
'File 8/62 Muscat State Affairs: Principal Shaikhs and Tribes of Oman'
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This file concerns relations between the Sultan of Muscat and Oman [Sa‘īd bin Taymūr Āl Bū Sa‘īd] and the shaikhs of the Omani tribes. Much of the correspondence discusses the Sultan's ambition to secure the allegiance of the Omani shaikhs and consolidate his authority in the interior of Oman. T...
