The Arabs and the Scramble for Africa - John C. Wilkinson
5. Barghash’s reign: the first dozen years
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: Barghash’s accession; The confrontation with Churchill; Kirk replaces Churchill; Sds Turki and ‘Abd al-‘Aziz; Revision of the slave trade treaty; Barghash’s advisers; Bâ Qashmar; Barghash’s reign; Pemba; Barghash as Sultan; Mirambo and Tabora; The developing European influence in the interior at the beginning of the 1880s; Egypt <