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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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The reign of Said bin Taimur was marked by financial troubles from the outset, but despite his more active role in the 1930s, a rebellion in the province of Dhofar ultimately cost him the Sultanate.
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Article Die Al-Bu-Said Dynastie in Arabien und Ostafrika. was published on January 1, 1932 in the journal Der Islam (volume 20, issue 3).
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This paper essentially examines Tariq Bin Timur’s character and his achievements during the reign of his brother Sultan Sa’id Bin Taimur (1932 – 1971). The paper also highlights the motives behind his departure of the Sultanate in 1966 and announcing his discretion to oust the Sultan on the grounds that he was behind the backwardness of the Sultanate.To this end, Tariq made a statement in which he called on the Omani people for support, with a view of ousting the Sultan. In the process, he wrote the Sultanate’s future constitu- tion hoping that his efforts would prevail. With respect to the position of the British Government and other influential parties, the paper looks critically into their positions, particularly that of the British Government, which firmly opposed any change threat that would threat its interests
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Clements 1981, 82: a brief survey concentrating on the events in the 1950s and presenting the official pro Sultan view of actions against the Imamate. Landen 1967, 448: a pro-Sultanate interpretation of the differences between these two institutions as they developed since 1913.
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