The Arabs and the Scramble for Africa - John C. Wilkinson
1. The Omani perspective: part 1
The Arabs and the Scramble for Africa - John C. Wilkinson
John C. Wilkinson [+]
The University of Oxford, (Retired)
John C. Wilkinson, D.Litt, is a former Reader at Oxford University and an Emeritus Fellow of St Hugh’s College, Oxford, where he taught from 1969 until his retirement in 1997.
He has advised several governments in the Middle East on their frontier disputes, including as Counsel for Bahrain in Qatar vs Bahrain, the longest running case to have appeared before the International Court of Justice at The Hague. He is author of numerous articles and several books, notably: Water and Tribal Settlement in South-East Arabia (Clarendon Press, 1977), The Imamate Tradition of Oman (Cambridge University Press, 1987), Arabia's Frontiers (I.B. Tauris, 1991), A Fatal Duel: “Harry Alis” (1857-95), a behind the scenes figure of the early Third Republic (Antony Rowe, 2006) and Ibâdism: Origins and early development in Oman (Oxford University Press, 2010).
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Chapter contents: Omanis and Swahil; Tribal nisbas; Political relationships between Oman and Africa; The Omani colonial model; The Swahili “city-state” model; Early Arabian contact with East Africa; Oman’s role; The Nabâhina; The Portuguese and the Ya’aruba; The Ya’rubi dynasty; The early Busa’id; The continued Hinawi-Ghafiri rivalry; Control of Muscat: Sayf and Sultan’s rebellions; Ahmad’s succession; The interior; The Ya’aruba legacy in East Africa; The Mazari’a; Tribes Associated with the Ya’aruba and Mazarî’a period; Sd Sa’id first expeditions.