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Nicolini, B. (2023, May 29). Ibadi Sultans of Oman between the Indian Ocean and the Atlantic in 1840 [Colloque]. 12th International Conference on Ibadi Studies: Far Beyond the Atlantic: Literary Production, Exchange, and Material Culture Across Brazilian and Ibadi-Omani History.

Nicolini, B. (2009). Oceano indiano occidentale: scorci di storia. Polimetrica. Fonds Martin Custers.

Nicolini, B. (2000). Saiyid Sa’id bin Sultan Al Bu Sa’id of Oman (1791-1856) and his relationships with Europe. ARAM Periodical, 11–12, 171–180. Fonds Martin Custers.

A study of Sayyid Saʿīd’s relations with Great Britain and France, within the framework of the rivalry between these two countries in the Indian Ocean, and Sayyid Saʿīd’s policy towards the British demand for abolition of the slave trade.

Nicolini, B. (2014). New working hypothesis on the control of Oman on East Africa: from the Yaʿāriba to the Āl Bū Saʿīd dynasty. In al-Mu’tamar al-Duwalī : al-Dawr al-ʿUmānī fī ‘l-Sharq al-Ifrīqī, 11-13 Dec. 2012. Buḥūth al-Mu’tamar (Vol. 2, pp. 84–107). Sultan Qaboos University. Fonds Martin Custers.

Nicolini, B. (2002). Historical and political links between Gwādar and Muscat from 19th century testimonies. Proceedings of the Seminar for Arabian Studies, 32, 281–286. Fonds Martin Custers.

Nicolini, B. (2022). The Re-globalization Process in the Indian Ocean: the Ibadi Press in Zanzibar (al-Sultaniyya). Chroniques Yéménites, (16). https://doi.org/10.4000/cy.8223

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Nicolini, B. (2018, September 17). Letter of Marque: the Gwadar Enclave of Ibadi Sultans of Oman and its Interconnections with Asia [Conférence]. The 9th Conference on Ibadi Studies: China and the World: Development and Cooperation from the Perspective of the Belt and Road Initiative.

Nicolini, B. (2012). The first sultan of Zanzibar: scrambling for power and trade in the nineteenth-century Indian Ocean. Markus Wiener Publishers.

Nicolini, B. (2002). Il sultanato di Zanzibar nel XIX secolo: traffici commerciali e relazioni internazionali. L’Harmattan. Fonds Martin Custers.

Nicolini, B. (2009). The Myth of the Sultans in the Western Indian Ocean during the Nineteenth Century: A New Hypothesis. African and Asian Studies, 8(3), 239–267. https://doi.org/10.1163/156921009X458109

Abstract The power of the Al Bu Sa'id Sultans of Oman was widely known as based on delicate balances of forces (and ethnic-social groups), deeply different among them. In fact, the elements that composed the nineteenth century Omani leadership were, and had always been, generally 'divided' amongst three different ethnic groups: the Baluch, the Asian merchant communities and the African regional leaders (Mwiny Mkuu). Within this framework, the role played by European Powers, particularly by the Treaties signed between the Sultans of Oman and the East India Company for abolishing slavery, and by the arms trade was crucial for the development of the Gulf and the Western Indian Ocean international networks They highly contributed to the gradual 'shifting' of the Omanis from the slave trade to clove and spice cultivation – the major economic source of Zanzibar Island – along the coastal area of Sub-Saharan East Africa. The role played by the Omani Sultans – the myth – within the western traditional historiography, which often described them as firmly controlling both the Arabian and African littorals and the major trading ports of the Western Indian Ocean during the nineteenth century, will be reexamined in this paper, taking into account recent research studies and international debates in the topic. The new hypothesis consists of a different perception of the concepts of power and control (political and territorial) of the Western Indian Ocean littorals by the most famous of the Sultans of Oman during the nineteenth century: Saiyid Sa'id bin Sultan Al Bu Sa'id.

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Nicolini, B. (2002). Zanzibar and East Africa. Interreligious and intercultural relations throughout history. Africana: Rivista Di Studi Extraeuropei, 1–5. Fonds Martin Custers.

Nicolini, B. (2002). Zanzibar nella prima metà del XIX secolo: terra, gruppi di potere e classi sociali. Storia Urbana, (98–99), 97–117. Fonds Martin Custers.

Nicolini, B. (2003). The Western Indian Ocean as cultural corridor: Makran, Oman and Zanzibar through nineteenth century European accounts and reports. Middle East Studies Association Bulletin, 37(1), 20–49. Fonds Martin Custers.

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Nicolini, B. (2006). Possedere Zanzibar. Riflessioni sulle politiche di ‘controllo’ nell’oceano Indiano occidentale durante il XIX secolo. Palaver, 1(1), 69–81. https://doi.org/10.1285/i22804250v1p69

At the coast of equatorial Africa, divided from the mainland for a channel width of only thirty miles, lies the island of Zanzibar (Unguja). The regular recurrence of the monsoon allowed to continue contacts with India, the Red Sea and the Gulf, the proximity of the coast represented a strategic position for trade between the interior of Africa and the Indian Ocean, Zanzibar was in the nineteenth considered 'the depot of the richest trade in Eastern Africa'. Special opportunities for trade in goods and slaves, controlled by the Omani dynasty of Al Bu Sa'id, could not escape the political and commercial interests of France and England.

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Nicolini, B. (2006). The Makran-Baluch-African Network in Zanzibar and East Africa during the XIXth Century. African and Asian Studies, 5(3), 347–370. https://doi.org/10.1163/156920906779134830

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Nicolini, B. (2002). Le isole di Zanzibar e Pemba. Africana: Rivista di Studi Extraeuropei, 8.

Nicolini, B. (2026). Tra Leoni e Tempeste: La Sultanah e la sua Missione Diplomatica attraverso Due Oceani (1840). In P. Borruso (Ed.), L’Africa liberata: Studi in memoria di Angelo Del Boca e Gian Paolo Calchi Novati (pp. 10–22). Carocci. https://publicatt.unicatt.it/handle/10807/329336

Introduzione Le relazioni diplomatiche tra Oman e Stati Uniti sono al centro della presente ricostruzione attraverso il caso studio del viaggio della nave Sultanah nel 1840: un’epoca, questa, di grandi trasformazioni globali. Il 30 aprile 1840, la nave Sultanah raggiunse un traguardo storico con il suo arrivo nel porto di New York, segnando un momento cruciale nella storia diplomatica dell’oceano Indiano e dei rapporti internazionali. Dopo un impegnativo viaggio di 87 giorni da Zanzibar, la Sultanah divenne la prima imbarcazione a completare una traversata transoceanica collegando gli oceani Indiano e Atlantico. A bordo vi era il primo diplomatico inviato dall’ibadita Al Bu Sa‘id, il Sultano dell’Oman e di Zanzibar, Sayyid Sa‘id bin Sultan (1804-6-1856). Sebbene formalmente un’impresa commerciale, la missione perseguiva obiettivi che andavano ben oltre il semplice commercio, riflettendo più ampie ambizioni diplomatiche e geopolitiche. New York, all’epoca il principale centro commerciale degli Stati Uniti, rappresentava un nodo strategico per il commercio internazionale e le relazioni politiche nel XIX secolo. L’equipaggio della Sultanah incarnava la complessa interconnessione del mondo dell’oceano Indiano, essendo composto da genti provenienti da diversi contesti culturali e socioeconomici: un cuoco di Goa, marinai est-africani ridotti in schiavitù, due donne inglesi e due passeggeri francesi. Al suo arrivo, gli ufficiali della nave annunciarono la loro presenza con rulli cerimoniali di tamburo e offrirono in dono due leoni africani (!) al Presidente degli Stati Uniti, Martin Van Buren (1782-1862), un gesto simbolico delle aperture diplomatiche del Sultano omanita nei confronti degli Stati Uniti. Il viaggio della Sultanah si inserisce nelle più ampie dinamiche del XIX secolo, testimoniando il rafforzamento dei legami diplomatici tra il Sultanato Al Bu Sa‘id e gli Stati Uniti, formalizzati già nel Trattato di Amicizia e Commercio del 1833. Inoltre, mise in evidenza il ruolo dell’oceano Indiano come crocevia di scambi transculturali e di negoziazione politica, connettendo Africa, Asia e Americhe. L’organizzazione della missione, che coniugava esplorazione marittima, aspirazioni commerciali e diplomazia, rifletteva le numerose strategie adottate dal Sultano Al Bu Sa‘id per consolidare il proprio potere regionale e internazionale in un contesto di crescente espansione imperiale europea.

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Risso, P. (2005). [Review of Review : Makran, Oman, and Zanzibar: Three-Terminal Cultural Corridor in the Western Indian Ocean (1799-1856), trans. Penelope-Jane Watson, Islam in Africa Series, vol. 3 (Leiden: Brill, 2004). Pp. 191. $112.00 cloth., by B. Nicolini]. International Journal of Middle East Studies, 37(4), 636–637. http://www.jstor.org/stable/3879662

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Bernardi, B. (2006). [Review of Review of Il sultanato di Zanzibar nel XIX secolo: traffici commerciali e relazioni internazionali; Makran, Oman and Zanzibar. Three-Terminal Cultural Corridor in the Western Indian Ocean (1799-1856), Beatrice Nicolini, by B. Nicolini]. Africa: Rivista trimestrale di studi e documentazione dell’Istituto italiano per l’Africa e l’Oriente, 61(1), 138–140. https://www.jstor.org/stable/40761843

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Loimeier, R. (2006). [Review of Review of Makran, Oman and Zanzibar. Three-Terminal Cultural Corridor in the Western Indian Ocean (1799-1856), by B. Nicolini]. Die Welt des Islams, 46(1), 107–109. https://www.jstor.org/stable/20140717

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