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This file is about exchanges between the Sultanate of Muscat and Oman, the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and the International Bank for Reconstruction and Development (IBRD)....

This file relates to relations between the UK and Oman. It contains correspondence, briefs, and records of conversations concerning: The visit of the Sultan of Oman Qaboos Bin...

This file relates to relations between the UK and Oman, and in particular the replacement of D G Crawford as the Consul General in Muscat by D F Hawley. It includes...

This file relates to relations between Oman and Saudi Arabia. It contains correspondence, press extracts and situation reports concerning: The visit of an Omani delegation to Saudi Arabia The rumours that an Imamate of Oman office has reopened in Dammam The possible visit of the Sultan of Oman Qaboos Bin Saeed Al Said to Saudi Arabia and Iran; his eventual decision to call off the visits and travel directly to London; and contacts between the Saudi administration and the Sultan HMG’s efforts to remove itself from acting as a ‘middle-man’ between Saudi Arabia and Oman A letter from the Saudi Minister of Petroleum and Mineral Resources Ahmad Zaki Yamani to Petroleum Development (Oman) Limited accusing it of drilling in Saudi territory; the damage this caused to Saudi-Omani relations; HMG’s efforts to establish whether this is an officially sanctioned Saudi approach Reports from Shell and Qatar of Saudi troop movements in Dhofar and Rub' Al Khali The impact of the Saudi disposition towards Oman on its postponement of Arab League membership The suggestion of a settlement between the Sultan and the Imam of Oman Ghalib Bin Ali Al Hina'i; the Sultan’s offer of the right to return to Oman to Ghalib, with the title of Mufti, provided he renounce the Imamate and swear loyalty; and efforts to establish Ghalib’s response to this offer Headquarters British Forces Gulf’s (HQBFG) reports on military operations in Dhofar US concern over the state of Oman-Saudi Arabia relations The improvement of relations between Oman and Saudi Arabia, including recognition of Oman by the latter, a successful visit to Saudi Arabia by the Sultan, and the issuing of a joint statement by the Sultan and the Ruler of Saudi Arabia King Faisal Bin Abdul Aziz Al Saud

This file relates to The Sultanate of Oman and its dealings with the Omani rebel movement. It contains correspondence concerning: The Consul General in Muscat D G Crawford’s report on the situation. It mentions: the difficulties the situation creates for Oman’s desire to join the UN and the Arab League; the significance of the possible future defection of Sheikh Sulaiman Bin Himyar Al Nabhani to the Ruler of Oman Sultan Qaboos Bin Saeed Al Said; and the opposition of the Sultan and his uncle Tariq Bin Taimur to any accommodation with the rebels The possible resolution of the conflict through a regional approach mediated by other Arab states, as Sulaiman Bin Himyar, Ghalib Bin Ali Al Hina'i and Taleb Bin Ali Al Hina'i have dwindling followers in other countries The possible future Omani goodwill mission; the statement from Ghalib denying the liquidation of the Imamate of Oman offices in various countries, reported in the Kuwaiti newspaper Al Siyasa, because of this new approach; and comment from the British Embassy in Kuwait

This file relates to development projects in Oman. It contains correspondence concerning: The civil development of Salalah, and the progress since the accession of the Sultan of Oman Qaboos Bin Saeed Al Said to the throne Lists of current and future development projects in Oman The multiple invitations from the government of Oman to various consultancies, including Llewelyn-Davies, Weeks, Forestier-Walker and Bor, the International Bank for Reconstruction and Development, Harold Whitehead and Partners Limited, and Bechtel Incorporated, to conduct economic surveys and development plans in the Sultanate

f° 62-63: Sur Yahya Omar Baruni conseiller du Sultan introduit par Omar Baruni

p. 12 : ... and his Foreign Affairs Adviser, Omar Baruni

This file concerns domestic and foreign political affairs in Oman. It contains correspondence relating to: Ministerial changes in the Government of Oman Internal challenges and rivalries within the government Meetings with ministers in the government, and HMG’s recommendations for government reform Developments in the Dhofar conflict, with statements from the People's Democratic Republic of Yemen (South Yemen) and the Popular Front for the Liberation of Oman and the Arab Gulf (PFLOAG) International media coverage on Oman, including allegations on the Soviet radio station Radio Peace and Progress that the British military have used napalm in Dhofar Oman’s foreign relations The views of Egypt, Libya, and Iraq on the Dhofar conflict and the presence of British officers in Oman Arrangements, briefings, and records of the visit of the Omani Minister for Communications, Social Affairs and Labour Abdul Hafidh Saleem Rajab to the UK Issues of development in Oman, including the construction of roads, hospitals, and schools and the employment of foreign advisers and staff Sultan Qaboos Bin Saeed Al Said’s speech on National Day 1972, reviewing Oman's achievements in the past two years and plans for the future, and criticising PFLOAG and South Yemen

A catalogue of books and MSS in the Wikālat al-Jāmūs (Wikālat al-Baḥḥār) in Cairo, composed by Sālim b. Yaʿqūb in the 1930s, which I photographed when visiting him in Ghīzen at Jerba in June 1972. The library had 90 volumes by Maghribī Ibāḍī authors (among which 17 copies of volumes of Abū Sākin ʿĀmir al-Shammākhī’s K. al-Īḍāḥ) and ten volumes by Omani authors; the Maghribī volumes comprised 43 different titles and the Omani ones six. The registred Waqf dates were: 15 x 12th/18th c. (1131-1197/1719 - 1782-3), 12 x 13th/19th c. (1215-1276/1800-1 - 1862), and 7 x 14th/20th c. (1327-1334/1909 - 1915-6). The dates of copying of the manuscripts were: 828/1425, 883/1479; 1051/1641, 1058/1648, 1065/1654; 34 x 12th/18th c. (1114-1198/1702-1784); 12 x 13th/19th c. (1201-1272/1787-1855); 1 x 14th/20th c. (1333/1914-5). There were 70 non-Ibāḍī volumes, most of them manuscripts related to the Arabic language. The oldest non-Ibāḍī manuscript was vol. 3 of K. Muntahà ‘l-Adab fī Lughat al-Turk wa’l-ʿAjam wa’l-ʿArab, by Aḥm. b. Muḥ. b. ʿArabshāh, copied 14 Shaʿbān 852/1448 (see GAL II, 29 (ed. 1949, 36-37); S II, 24-25: Abū ‘l-ʿAbbās Aḥm. b. Muḥ. b. ʿAbdl. b. ʿArabshāh Shihāb al-Dīn al-Dimashqī al-Ḥanafī (791-854/1392-1450): Tarjumān al-Mutarjam bi-Muntahà ‘l-ʿArab fī Lughāt al-Turk wa’l-ʿAjam wa’l-ʿArab). The MSS copied in the Wikāla were dated 1117/1706 - 1283/1866, those copied in Cairo were dated 1065/1654-5 - 1333/1914-5. Most copies were done by Jerbans. Among the Waqf givers were: Muḥ. b. Ram. al-Baḥḥār (10 vols., two of them have as Waqf dates 1124/1712 and 1131/1718); Aḥm. b. Daḥmān together with Sul. and Yūnus b. Shaʿbān (6 vols.); Sul. b. ʿAbd al-Raḥmān b. Abī ‘l-Qāsim b. Yaḥyà al-Khanūsī (31 vols., most of them in 1758-9); Saʿīd b. Qāsim b. Sul. al-Shammākhī (5 vols.); Sul. b. Saʿīd al-Bakhābkhī al-Yafranī (6 vols., all donated in 1334/1915-6). The earliest MS I came across which was completed in Wikālat al-Jāmūs is Abū ʿAbdl. Muḥ. b. ʿUmar b. Abī Sitta al-Qaṣbī: [Ḥāshiya ʿalà K. al-Qawāʿid], copyist Mūsà b. al-Ḥājj Muḥ. b. Mūsà b. Ḥammū b. Yūsuf b. Mūsà b. Afḍal b. Muḥ. b. Yūsuf b. Muḥ. b. Aḥm. b. Ibr., called al-Ḥujajī, 22 Shaʿbān 1106/1695. In Makt. Āl Yiddir, Beni Isguen, Mīzāb.