Oman in the geographical writings of the third and fourth centuries AH
There is no doubt that Oman’s history in the Middle Ages is still very early. It has not yet received the attention it deserves from modern researchers. With the exception of a small amount of what has been written about the history of this part of the Arab world, it still needs more objective scien...
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University of Mosul, College of Arts
1977-08-01
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| description | There is no doubt that Oman’s history in the Middle Ages is still very early. It has not yet received the attention it deserves from modern researchers. With the exception of a small amount of what has been written about the history of this part of the Arab world, it still needs more objective scientific studies that reveal its ambiguity and manifest its features. Many of which, unfortunately, are still hidden from us.
Perhaps this lack of studies on the history of medieval Oman is primarily due to the scarcity of historical material and its scarcity in our historical sources in general, because our historical narratives did not usually concern themselves much with the events of the remote parts of the Arab Islamic Empire, but focused most of their attention on the events of the Caliphate Center. The same applies to what is happening in those parts near the center. Thus, the events of the history of Oman were not dealt with except very briefly by these sources.
Nevertheless, it is also permissible that the history of Oman in this period was written like other histories, but it did not reach us in its complete and integrated form due to the fact that the majority of the inhabitants of Amman in this period in which we are about were adherents of the Ibadi Kharijites doctrine, and this undoubtedly means that they They were outside the legitimate central authority, the "caliphate" .. Thus it is not excluded that the authority at that time played a role in obscuring their news and preventing its recording. This is on the one hand. On the other hand, the hostile situation between the authorities and them may have made the narrators themselves wary of transmitting and writing such news.
However, what adds to our information about the history of Oman in this period is the subject of research, and part of this deficiency is filled by what we find in the books of Arab and Muslim geographers, especially those from the third and fourth centuries of the ninth and tenth centuries CE, because their writings are characterized by a kind of authenticity in general, despite That being influenced by Greek geographers appears in some of them.
We are not here in the field of writing about the history of Oman in general or dealing with one of its events. Rather, we would like to draw attention to the material provided by these geographers about Oman and its nature by reviewing it, which may help the researcher in this field to add it to what is available in the general history books and He wrote the local history, and thus the picture is complete or almost complete about the history of this Gulf country in the medieval era. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-f98e5f4ce52d47ce8406e9ea6fdd41462023-02-02T07:10:00ZaraUniversity of Mosul, College of Artsآداب الرافدين0378-28672664-25061977-08-017810812410.33899/radab.1977.166281166281Oman in the geographical writings of the third and fourth centuries AHAbd-AlAmeer Dacsan0College of Arts / University of MosulThere is no doubt that Oman’s history in the Middle Ages is still very early. It has not yet received the attention it deserves from modern researchers. With the exception of a small amount of what has been written about the history of this part of the Arab world, it still needs more objective scientific studies that reveal its ambiguity and manifest its features. Many of which, unfortunately, are still hidden from us. Perhaps this lack of studies on the history of medieval Oman is primarily due to the scarcity of historical material and its scarcity in our historical sources in general, because our historical narratives did not usually concern themselves much with the events of the remote parts of the Arab Islamic Empire, but focused most of their attention on the events of the Caliphate Center. The same applies to what is happening in those parts near the center. Thus, the events of the history of Oman were not dealt with except very briefly by these sources. Nevertheless, it is also permissible that the history of Oman in this period was written like other histories, but it did not reach us in its complete and integrated form due to the fact that the majority of the inhabitants of Amman in this period in which we are about were adherents of the Ibadi Kharijites doctrine, and this undoubtedly means that they They were outside the legitimate central authority, the "caliphate" .. Thus it is not excluded that the authority at that time played a role in obscuring their news and preventing its recording. This is on the one hand. On the other hand, the hostile situation between the authorities and them may have made the narrators themselves wary of transmitting and writing such news. However, what adds to our information about the history of Oman in this period is the subject of research, and part of this deficiency is filled by what we find in the books of Arab and Muslim geographers, especially those from the third and fourth centuries of the ninth and tenth centuries CE, because their writings are characterized by a kind of authenticity in general, despite That being influenced by Greek geographers appears in some of them. We are not here in the field of writing about the history of Oman in general or dealing with one of its events. Rather, we would like to draw attention to the material provided by these geographers about Oman and its nature by reviewing it, which may help the researcher in this field to add it to what is available in the general history books and He wrote the local history, and thus the picture is complete or almost complete about the history of this Gulf country in the medieval era.https://radab.mosuljournals.com/article_166281_f02587192af21922923a8415f3f7c696.pdf |
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