The Arabs and the Scramble for Africa - John C. Wilkinson
2. The Omani perspective part II: growing British influence
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: Muscat and Oman; Sd Sa’id’s accession and British intervention; Zanzibar; Sd Sa’id and East Africa; The Hirth and the Sharqiya; The Hirth in East Africa; The alienation of the Hirth; The Nahḏa; Sa’id’s move to Zanzibar; Dhofar and Southern Arabia; The Red Sea and the Ottoman threat; The Hadramis in East Africa; Transformations during Sa’id’s time at Zanzibar; The developing economy; The Zanzibar entrepot; Plantation agriculture; Sa’id’s legacy; The Banians; Foreign Relations Britain and France; Ibadism in East Africa; Conversion; The ulema and the Ibadi tradition; Slavery; Ibadism and slavery; Colonial exploitation of the anti-slavery movement