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Thispaperdiscussestheroleandoverlappingmeaningoftwokeythemespersistenwt ithintheOmanidecorativetraditions,tars anddatepalms,byfocusingonthedecoratedprayerniches(mahãrfbs,g.mihrãbo) fOman.Italso addressesthecloseconnection betweenconceptionosftopographiynOmanicultureandthearticulatioonfthresholdbs,othsacredanddomesticT. hepaperargues thatan attempttoconnectthecelestialandphysicaltopographicconceptiontshatis attheheartofthecomplexwaterdistribution strategyoftheaflãjirrigatiosnystemalso prevailsin themihrãbT. he Ibadï artisanof Omanintegraterdepresentatioonfsboth continuouasndinstantaneoutismeemployintgheendlessknotandstellarmotifsE.mphasizingthesacrednatureoftimeandlightas divineattributeosressenceofGod,themihrãbsoughttorepresenatcelestialtopographyw,hichwas madepossiblethroughIbadï analogicalinterpretatioonfsanthropomorphiisnmtheQurDanandan expandinginfluencoefmysticismamongstOmanischolars. Omanimihrãband doordecorationshowsa close affinitbyetweenstellarand date-palmrepresentationtsh,elatteralso heldin sacredesteeminOman.Theaflãjirrigatiosnystemoncedependedsignificantolyn thepositionofstarsinthenightskytoensure thedistributioonfwaterT. heinterchangeabrlepresentatiosunggestsa conflatioonftheterrestritaolpographoyftheoasisandthe celestialtopographyTh. ehorizonmediatedthisrelationshipac,tingas a thresholtdhroughwhichthecelestialbodieshadtopassto be meaningfulalyssociatedwiththeterrestritaolpographyA.ppearingas woventapestrieosrboundedspatialrepresentationbso,th themihrãbandtheOmanidoorwaydecorationmarka thresholidnthesacredandsecularpassage.
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This contribution studies the complex arrangement of legal, socio-economic, and technical aspects of the aflāj (s. falaj) water distribution and irrigation system, and how they have shaped communities and built environments in Oman, where the falaj has provided the virtual lifeline of oasis life since the first millennium BCE. Three case studies of falaj communities are presented, Birkat al-Mawz, al-Ḥamrāʾ, and Misfāt al-ʿAbrīyin, which developed during the prosperous early-Yaʿrubi period in the mid-eleventh/seventeenth century. It investigates the extent to which the Ibāḍī-Islamic legal framework allowed flexibility for the local governance, management, and organisation of this ancient system, and its adaptation to diverse demographic, environmental, and emergent socio-political conditions.
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This paper explores the history of the Chinese porcelain trade in Oman with the aim of gauging the impact of these wares on Oman's religious architecture. The large quantities of porcelain surface finds from the interior and the comparatively unusual reliance on them for the decoration of prayer niches, in the presence of equally valuable wares from Persia and elsewhere, suggest an elevated status for these objects, which is not necessarily a product of their immediate monetary value. Chemical and stylistic analyses were carried out to determine the dates and provenance of the ceramics studied, with the aim of gaining a better understanding of their introduction into the Omani market and their relation to religious design schemes.
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