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Correspondence, memoranda, and minutes relating to relations between the Sultan of Muscat and other powers, including the British. Included in the file: numerous notes and reports by the Political Agent in Muscat on the Sultan's relations with the Americans (folio 3), the tribes of the interior of Oman (folios 25-31 and 39-47), and the British officers themselves (folios 7 and 34-37) correspondence from the Sultan of Muscat, Said bin Taimur [Sa‘īd ibn Taymūr Āl Bū Sa‘īd] regarding the trade in dates and his desire that no official correspondence of such matters be exchanged or retained (folios 13-15) an extract from Muscat Intelligence Summary No. 2, 1-15 January 1940, regarding the Muscat government's public notices prohibiting trade with Germany.

Correspondence relating to the activities of Sheikh Sulaiman Pasha al Baruni (also written Suleiman) [Sulayman al-Barūnī al-Nufūsi], an exiled notable of Tripoli appointed to the Muscat State Government. The file includes correspondence between officials at the Political Agency in Muscat, Political Residency in the Persian Gulf, Government of India (External Affairs Department), India Office and Foreign Office discussing the appointment of al Baruni as Adviser for Internal Affairs and Inspector of Walis and the suspected reasons behind it. Also contained within the file are translations of intercepted letters to and from al Baruni to various members of the exiled Tripolitanian community between 17 September 1939 and 20 March 1940. The correspondence discusses the situation in Tripolitania, the position of the Italians in the Second World War, the formation of committees and the elections of leaders, and the possibility of liberating their homeland. Correspondents include: Syed Ahmad Zarim (Salambo, Ahwaj, Tunis) The French Minister and Resident-General at Tunis Syed Omar Faiq Shunaib, a notable of Tripoli (As-Salhiyah, Damascus) Sheikh Ahmed Beg al Baruni, Qadhi of Yafrin (Tripoli) Ahmad Zari Ar-Rihaibi (Tripoli) Omar Faiq Shanib (Damascus) Ahmad Zarim bin Khalifah bin Omar (Salambo, Tunis) Syed Muhammad Ariqi, President of the Association of Tripolian Immigrants in Tunis Present within the file are translated letters and statements with multiple signatures of the 'chiefs and sheikhs' of Tripoli residing in Egypt declaring their intention to form a committee and elect a president (folios 15-17).

Fortnightly news summaries sent by the Political Agent, Muscat, to the Political Residency in the Persian Gulf and distributed from there to various other British and Indian Government offices. From 1 April 1934 they are referred to as intelligence summaries. The reports cover various subjects, each given their own sub-heading, such as British interests, aviation, local interests, foreign interests, meteorological, shipping, Royal Air Force, Navy, and miscellaneous. Events of note are sometimes given their own sub-heading within a report. Most of the reports cover a period of two weeks but occasionally they may cover a month or more. The earliest report is that of the period 1 to 15 August 1933 and the last is 16 to 31 October 1945. There are the following gaps: 16 December 1934 to 31 March 1935 16 to 31 December 1940 1 December 1941 to 15 January 1942 1 to 15 December 1942 1 to 15 June 1943 1 to 15 October 1944 Also contained within the file are India Office notes on sections of interest for some of the reports.

The file contains correspondence regarding the potential employment of Major Patrick T Fforde, formerly of the Indian Army, by the Sultan of Muscat and Oman. As well as Fforde, the primary correspondents are: Foreign Office; Commonwealth Relations Office; Political Resident, Persian Gulf. The file includes a divider, which gives a list of correspondence references contained in the file by year. This is placed at the back of the correspondence.

The file contains a copy of a telegram sent to the Foreign Office by HM Ambassador to the United States, regarding a message sent by the Sultan of Muscat to the Head of the Muscat Mission in Bagdad [Baghdad] instructing him to approach the United States Legation for travelling expenses to return to Muscat.

The file contains correspondence from Major Tom Hickinbotham, Political Agent and HM Consul, Muscat, to Lieutenant Colonel Charles Geoffrey Prior, Political Resident in the Persian Gulf, which is forwarded to the Secretary of State for India. The correspondence relates that, on the pretext that certain of his adherents had been murdered, Mohammad bin Abdullah al Khalili, Imam of Inner Oman, had taken control of the fort at Ibri in the Dhahirah, formerly in the hands of the Sultan of Muscat and Oman. It is suggested that a more likely motivation for this action was to take control of the area in which Petroleum Concessions Ltd had been most interested. The Political Resident in the Gulf suggests that it would be a set-back for British interests if the Sultan were to lose ground in this area, and after a number of letters providing updates of the situation the correspondence ends with a letter from Major Hickinbotham informing that Saiyid Shahab bin Faisal, Regent and Minister for External Affairs, Muscat, had been contacted by Ali bin Said of Ainane, offering surrender of the strategically-important fort at Ainane to the Sultan on terms, in consequence of pressure from the Imam. The Regent proposed to discuss terms, an action which gained Major Hickinbotham's approval. The file includes a divider which gives a list of correspondence references contained in the file by year. This is placed at the front of the correspondence.

This volume contains twenty-three texts, most of which were written between the end of the 2nd/8th century and the end of the 3rd/9th century. The majority of them reflect the early stages of the development of the First Ibadi Imamate in 132/750 – established when the Omanis fully seceded from the central state in Baghdad until the Imamate was collapsed by the Abbasids in 280/893. The source value of these Ibadi texts for researchers and scholars specialised in Islamic studies far outweighs any importance they might attach to sectarian history per se. 1 The Epistle of Mūsā b. Abī Jābir سيرة موسى بن أبي جابر 2 Letter of Abū Mawdūd to Imam Ghassān b. ʿAbdallāh نصيحة أبي مودود للإمام غسّان بن عبد الله 3 Epistle of Abū Mawdūd Ḥabīb b. Ḥafṣ al-Hilālī to Imam Ghassān b. ʿAbdallāh سيرة أبي مودود حبيب بن حفص الهلالي إلى الإمام غسان بن عبد الله 4 Epistle of Munīr b. al-Nayyīr al-Riyāmī al-Jaʿlānī to Imam Ghassān b. ʿAbdallāh سيرة المنير بن النيّر الريامي الجعلاني إلى الإمام غسان بن عبدالله 5 Epistle of Abū Sufyān Maḥbūb b. al-Raḥīl to Imam al-Muhannāʾ b. Jayfar about Hārūn b. al-Yamān سيرة أبي سفيان محبوب بن الرحيل إلى الإمام المهناء بن جيفر بشأن هارون بن اليمان 6 Epistle of Abū Sufyān Maḥbūb b. al-Raḥīl to the People of Ḥaḍramawt about Hārūn b. al-Yamān سيرة أبي سفيان محبوب بن الرحيل إلى أهل حضرموت بشأن هارون بن اليمان 7 Epistle of Hārūn b. al-Yamān to Imam al-Muhannāʾ b. Jayfar about Abū Sufyān Maḥbūb b. al-Raḥīl سيرة هارون بن اليمان إلى الإمام المهناء بشأن أبي سفيان محبوب بن الرحيل 8 Letter from Hāshim b. Ghaylān al-Humaymī to Imam ʿAbd al-Malik b. Ḥumayd جواب مِن هاشم بن غيلان إلى الإمام عبد الملك بن حُمَيْد\سيرة 9 Epistle of Abū ʿAlī [Mūsā b. ʿAlī] to the shurāt سيرة لأبي علي للشراة 10 Letter from Hāshim b. Ghaylān al-Humaymī to Imam ʿAbd al-Malik b. Ḥumayd سيرة هاشم بن غيلان إلى الإمام عبد الملك بن حُمَيد 11 Letter from Mūsā b. ʿAlī to Imam ʿAbd al-Malik b. Ḥumayd سيرة موسى بن علي إلى الإمام عبد الملك بن حُمَيد 12 Letter from Mūsā b. ʿAlī [b. ʿAzra], Hāshim b. Ghaylān and the People of Izkī to Imam ʿAbd al-Malik b. Ḥumayd موسى بن عليّ و هاشم بن غيلان وأهل إزكي إلى الإمام عبد الملك بن حُمَيْد سيرة 13 Letter from Hāshim b. Ghaylān, Muḥammad b. Mūsā, al-Azhar b. ʿAlī, al-ʿAbbās b. al-Azhar, Mūsā b. Muḥammad and Saʿīd b. Jaʿfar to Imam ʿAbd al-Malik b. Ḥumayd سيرة من هاشم بن غيلان ومحمّد بن موسى والأزهر بن علي والعبّاس بن الأزهر ومحمّد ابني عليّ وسعيد بن جعفر إلى الإمام عبد الملك بن حُمَيد 14 Epistle of Imam al-Muhannāʾ b. Jayfar to Maʿādh b. Ḥarb سيرة الإمام المهناء بن جيفر إلى معاذ بن حرب 15 Letter from Imam al-Ṣalt b. Mālik and Muḥammad b. Maḥbūb to Aḥmad b. Sulaymān, the Imam of Ḥaḍramawt جواب من الإمام الصلت بن مالك ومحمّد بن محبوب إلى أحمد بن سليمان إمام\سيرة حضرموت 16 Epistle of Muḥammad b. Maḥbūb to the People of the Maghreb (North Africa) سيرة محمد بن محبوب لأهل المغرب 17 Epistle of Imam al-Ṣalt b. Mālik سيرة الإمام الصلت بن مالك 18 Epistle of Muḥammad b. Maḥbūb [b. al-Raḥīl] to Abū Ziyād Khalaf b. ʿAzra سيرة محمّد بن محبوب إلى أبي زياد خلف بن عزرة 19 Letter from Abū ʿAbdallāh Muḥammad b. Maḥbūb to Imam al-Ṣalt b. Mālik Regarding the People in Prison الصلت بن مالك في أهل السجن[الإمام]جواب مِن أبي عبدالله محمّد بن محبوب إلى 20 Epistle of Shaykh ʿAzzān b. al-Ṣaqr سيرة أبي معاوية عزّان بن الصقر 21 Epistle of Imam [Abū l-Yaqẓān] Muḥammad b. Aflaḥ رسالة الإمام محمد بن أفلح 22 Epistle of Abū l-Muʾthir al-Ṣalt b. Khamīs al-Kharūṣī سيرة أبي المؤثر الصلت بن خميس 23 Epistle of Abū l-Ḥasan ʿAlī b. Muḥammad al-Basyāwī Regarding Monotheism and the Imamate سيرة الشيخ أبي الحسن البسيوي

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The file consists of correspondence regarding an invitation to participate in an International Exhibition at Rome in 1942, issued by the Italian Legation at Baghdad to the Government of the Sultan of Muscat. Correspondents include: the India Office; the Political Resident in the Persian Gulf; and the Political Agent and Consul, Muscat. Also includes: a copy in translation of the original invitation from the Italian Legation at Baghdad dated 16 November 1938, with details for the exhibition; and a draft reply on behalf of the Sultan of Muscat [Sa‘īd bin Taymūr]. The file includes a divider which gives a list of correspondence references contained in the file by year. This is placed at the back of the correspondence.

The file contains correspondence relating to the celebrations to be held in Portugal in 1939 and 1940 of the eighth centenary of the foundation of the Portuguese Nation and the third centenary of the re-establishment of Portuguese independence. It mainly consists of copies sent to the India Office of correspondence between the Foreign Office and the following: the Ministry of Information, the British Council, the Universities Bureau of the British Council, and Dr Armindo R Monteiro, Portuguese Embassy; regarding the Congress of the Portuguese World to be held in Portugal in 1940. It also includes correspondence between the following: the Foreign Office and the Under Secretary of State for India; the India Office and the Government of India, External Affairs Department; and the Political Resident in Persian Gulf and the Government of India, External Affairs Department; concerning the request by the Portuguese Ambassador for assistance in securing from the authorities at Muscat the loan of suitable objects for inclusion in an exhibition to be organised in connection with the celebrations. The file includes a copy of a memorandum in French from the Portuguese Ambassador to London, dated 23 May 1938 (folio 24-25).

This file contains letters relating to the sale and shipment of arms and ammunition to Muscat in Oman. The majority of the correspondence is between the British firm of C H Laubenburg and British Political Agent in Muscat. The letters discuss changes to particular shipments of arms and ammunition as well as disputes and claims on payments due to the arms supplier. Other firms included in the correspondence are that of a W Darlow of Bedford, and Kynoch Limited. French correspondence in the file is issued from the French Consul in Muscat, Antoine Goguyer or Algerian Merchant Abraham Elbaz.