"ثورة مسقط، في الفترة من أبريل ١٩١٧ إلى يناير ١٩١٨، واستُأنفت في الفترة من أبريل ١٩٢٠ إلى أكتوبر ١٩٢٠" [و‎‎١‎١] (٥٥٨/٣٠)

Til# s«ot te which they "belong isj the Ib-i^hl $ and
pn* of the Qhl«f dogn^a of thdlr faith in that an laaaate i« not
a nec#««i/ty l»ut that wheti oircu»«t**io«ii ^hioh
. the dignity
ita existanof^^Hsr is» elective nnd not horeditaxy#
^or most of it® exiotenae Cisan hnu boen ruled by la*
but during th# X«».Bt ©mutuary fow of the rulers have had
the neo^B^ary r&Xi^iou^ ^u&lifioatiottHi to fill th^ po^t*
It my be noted in paoaing that the na»e of Eultsua
is of British Maufaoturo imd in pruotitaXXy a.^known among
Ooan aubjeote who int^TiuhX^ too^' refor to their ruler ae
* the Saiyid w the me^ib^re of hie f atiV hr^n^hee being
known a» • Saiyid ® •
We have alwaya adi4itt«jd the fact that the sultan**
«ate i<f not a hereditary but an elective dignity and indeed
until the neeeeeion of th« present Hultcm Baiyid Taimur we
have eeeured ourfselTeo of th^ fact that the rulers wae aooept~
•able to hie people before according hia recognition#
On the aoceeeion of th^ present ruler our hand^
were foroed for we had already ooml ited oureelfee beforehiind
to the aesietanoe of Saiyid Faisal* hi*? father# against whoa
the tribes had risten and thus we could not do otherwise than co.
continue that support to Me representative who took over the
reins of govex^nsient •
I hare referred to the Mstorioal eequ noe of this
revolution and I txmt that the following account will show
the correotne^e of this statement*
In 1868 AsftS&a bin ^ais, a Member of the Boetaq
branch of the ruling fai»iXy t the AX bu Said # to which all
Sultan sxnoe 1744 have belonged, eei&ed the throne fro* the
parricide Sultan Hali&u
A^asan* w t^o chief supporters were Salih bin Ali
el Harithi and sa f id bin Xhalfmn el !!halili# I'he chief leader
and instigator of the present riai-ig is the oon of the former,
Isa and an important menber is the son of th^ latter*
Assan was declared 1mm and for his short r&gn
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