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  • Fromson, James ; Simon, Steven
    Visions of Omani Reform

    Oman’s need to reduce its oil dependence illuminates the difficulty of reforming Gulf rentier states writ large.

  • Sachedina, Amal
    The politics of the coffee pot: Its changing role in history-making and the place of religion in the Sultanate of Oman

    Centered on the dalla, the Omani coffee pot, this paper considers how the social practices and knowledges induced by its material form and function organize different forms of perceptual skills. These skills habituate ways of seeing that become a means towards examining the shift from the religio–ethical relationships that defined the shari'a society of the last Ibadi Islamic Imamate that ruled the interior of the region (1913–1955) to those that define ‘heritage’ as part of Omani modern nation state building today. As a coffee server in the Imamate era, the dalla facilitated a history that was primarily moral in nature, oriented towards God and divine salvation. From 1970 onwards, as a visual symbol, it became an integral part of a national linear chronicle of progressive historicity. Through a shift in authoritative time, rationales of temporality, ethics and history were reconfigured, displacing an Imamate while establishing a modern-day Sultanate in its place.

  • Rezaei, Naimeh
    Lessons from Tradition in the Building of Contemporary Settlements: The Case of Tafilalt in the M'zab Valley, Algeria

    Since Algeria’s independence from France in 1962, the M’zab Valley in the northern Sahara has witnessed a rapid growth in population. Both legal and illegal housing has been built outside the walls of the M’zab’s ancient towns, damaging the environmental and cultural heritage of the area. In response, its long-standing residents have identified protocols for building a number of carefully planned settlements inspired by the original towns. One of these new settlements is Tafilalt, begun in 1997. Based in part on in-depth interviews with residents and the developers of the project, this article studies the construction of Tafilalt by its occupants and their perceptions of their new home. It asks how the M’zab’s traditional methods of planning, building and managing settlements have been adapted to the community’s current needs, who makes up the community, and to what extent Tafilalt might be seen as a model to be used elsewhere.

  • Hoffman, Valerie J.
    Muscat and Zanzibar, Sultanate of

    The Sultanate of Muscat and Zanzibar grew initially from Oman's struggle with Portugal in the 17th century for dominance over trade in the Persian Gulf and the Indian Ocean, and then from the desire to assert control over Omani settlements in East Africa. In 1832, Sayyid Sa‘id ibn Sulṭan transferred the capital of the Omani Empire from Muscat to Zanzibar. Although Sayyid Sa‘id and his successors in Zanzibar appointed governors along the coast and had agents as far inland as the Congo, actual territorial control was weak. In 1856 the empire was divided between two of Sa‘id's sons, one ruling in Oman and the other in Zanzibar, a division that was formalized in 1861, marking the effective end of the sultanate. European colonialism dramatically reduced the domains of the Zanzibar sultanate in the last quarter of the 19th century, though a member of the Bu Sa‘idi family remained on the throne in Zanzibar until January 1964. The Bu Sa‘idi dynasty continues to reign in the Sultanate of Oman.

  • Amara, Allaoua
    Ifriqiya, medieval empires of (Aghlabid to Hafsid)

    The Byzantine province of “Africa” was conquered by Arab forces in the early wave of Islamic expansion from the east, and became the Umayyad province of Ifriqiya in 703 ce. Although united in Islam, the history of Ifriqiya is one of constant religious schism and rivalry as well as marked cultural and ethnic divisions between the immigrant Arab and indigenous Berber populations and others, as well as distinct differences between the population, outlook, and economy of the coastal cities and the interior. In the turbulent world of medieval Ifriqiya the Aghlabids, viceroys from 800, acted as sub-imperial agents of the Abbasid caliphs in Baghdad. They were supplanted by the imperial-minded Shia Fatimids whose ambitions for the caliphate saw them rise to the domination of all Islamic lands, before the native Zirid dynasty of Sanhaja Berbers assumed power over Ifriqiya. Further fragmentation saw a temporary conquest by the Almohads of the western Maghreb before the Hafsids re-established a late flourishing of the empire of Ifriqiya which dissolved in the 16th century.

  • Schmierer, Richard J.
    The Sultanate of Oman and the Iran Nuclear Deal
  • Limbert, Mandana E.
    Liquid Oman: oil, water, and causality in Southern Arabia
    Liquid Oman

    This paper explores how different natural resources figure in temporal imaginings. I ask: how do oil and water come to frame the relationships and chronologies of transformation and, more particularly, of causality? In order to understand visions of environmental futures, not only might we need to attend to the forms of planning, expectation, and prognosis that shape knowledge or senses of the future, but we may also consider how and why causality and significant events are associated with particular natural resources. Drawing on my previous work that explores the future orientation of oil-depletion talk in Oman as well as textual sources and ethnography, I argue that while water has been associated with pious rule and divine presence, oil has been considered to be much more transitory and the product of human interventions and policies, interventions and policies that emerge from a fraught political history. While water seems to motivate events and cause change, serving as an indication and vehicle of God's power, oil appears less a cause of national transformation, at least in its origins.

  • Belushi, Mohammed Ali K. al-
    Archaeological legislation in the Sultanate of Oman
  • Meouak, Mohamed
    La langue berbère au Maghreb médiéval: textes, contextes, analyses

    3 Vestiges de la langue berbère dans les textes ibadites du Maghreb 3.1 Remarques préliminaires sur les élites savantes ibadites au Moyen Âge 3.2 Vestiges de la langue berbère dans les ouvrages ibadites du Maghreb médiéval 3.3 Les élites savantes ibadites et le dilemme entre écrire en berbère et/ou écrire en arabe 3.4 Les dénominations de la langue berbère dans la littérature ibadite 3.5 Al-lisān al-barbarī/al-luġa al-barbariyya : langue versus dialectes dans la littérature ibadite ?

  • Frantzman, Seth J. ; Townsend, John
    Review: Proconsul to the Middle East: Sir Percy Cox and the End of Empire - By John Townsend: Proconsul to the Middle East
  • Iskander, John
    Devout Heretics: The Barghawata in Maghribi Historiography

    From the mid-eighth century to at least the mid-twelfth century, a Berber people known as the Barghawata existed increasingly uncomfortably on the western fringes of North Africa. The medieval Arabic histories depict them in ways that show an increasing ambivalence towards their distinctive religious practices, eventually leading to utter condemnation. Yet these same histories preserve depictions that show that the Barghawata were not always thought of as heretics to be vanquished. The historiographic shift charted here is reflective of several dynamics. Some are broad, such as the increasingly uniform ideal of orthodoxy in the region; others are specific, such as the Marinids’ quest for a legitimising ideology, which led scholars to rethink aspects of the tribal past, as well as encouraging the rulers to support the growth of madrasas in Tunisia and beyond. The Barghawata’s image was increasingly reduced to a caricature, one that was subtly contradicted by the earlier sources.

  • Peterson, John E. ; Potter, Lawrence G.
    Muscat as a Port City
  • Peterson, John E.
    Historical Muscat: an illustrated guide and gazetteer
  • Peterson, John E. ; Potter, Lawrence G.
    The Baluch presence in the Persian Gulf
  • Miller, Eva
    The Jewish Community of Djerba, Tunisia and the event of La Ghriba
  • Michel, K.
    Cheveux et poils dans le judaïsme
  • Luxner, Larry
    Tunisian Synagogues Flourish Though the Jews have Gone
  • Healy, Helen
    Jewish Women Praying at the Ghriba Synagogue
  • Guez-Avigal, Miriam
    Sefer Shirat ha-ḳodesh shel nashim meha-I G'erba shebe-Tunisyah

    “Poésie de prophètes”: le chant sacré des juives de l’île de Djerba en Tunisie

  • Grøthe, Johnny
    Djerba – «utenfor verden»
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