'History of the imâms and seyyids of 'Omân by Salîl-ibn-Razîk, from A.D. 661-1856; translated from the original Arabic, and edited with notes, appendices, and an introduction, continuing the history down to 1870, by George Percy Badger, F.R.G.S., late chaplain in the Presidency of Bombay.' [36] (197/612)
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3G
the imams of 'oman.
ABU-J ABIE-MU S A-BIN-MU S A-EL-M A AL Y-
BIN-NIJAD.
He also trod down tyranny and oppression, and was held in
high esteem for his impartial administration. He died a.n.
549 [a.d. 1154], 1 and was buried by the watercourse of el-
'Antak, near Nezwa, close by the Jebel Dzu-^l-Junud. His
death was a great loss to the people of 'Oman. They then
appointed
MALIK-BIN AL Y-EL-HAW ARY,
a.h. 809 [a.d. 1406] who died some months after the year
833 [ a.d . 1429].
The author of the work Kashf -el-Ghummah says and
other historians of ^Oman make a similar statement—" I
have met with no account of any Imam during these two
hundred and odd years. Whether the Imamate was in
abeyance during that time, or whether the names of the
Imams have been lost to us, God only knows."
He goes on to say, however, that he had found an account
of an expedition dispatched against 'Oman by the people of
Shiraz, under Fakhr-ed-Din-Ahmed-bin-ed-Dtiyah and Shi-
hab-ed-Din, with 4,000 and 500 horse [respectively], which
did endless damage to the country. On arriving at Nezwa
they drove out thence the people of el-'Akr, 2 and took pos
session of their houses. After remaining four months m
'Oman they proceeded to Behla, which place they besieged,
but could not prevail against it. About this time Ibn-ed-
Dayah died, and there was a great famine in the land. This
1 As his predecessor is stated to have died a.h . 446, there must have
been a long interregnum before this Abu-Jabir was raised to the
ImS,mate.
2 p^-'Akr appears to be a suburb of Nezwa.
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History of the imâms and seyyids of 'Omân by Salîl-ibn-Razîk, from A.D. 661-1856; translated from the original Arabic, and edited with notes, appendices, and an introduction, continuing the history down to 1870, by George Percy Badger, F.R.G.S., late chaplain in the Presidency The name given to each of the three divisions of the territory of the East India Company, and later the British Raj, on the Indian subcontinent. of Bombay.
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- 'History of the imâms and seyyids of 'Omân by Salîl-ibn-Razîk, from A.D. 661-1856; translated from the original Arabic, and edited with notes, appendices, and an introduction, continuing the history down to 1870, by George Percy Badger, F.R.G.S., late chaplain in the Presidency of Bombay.'
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- 'History of the imâms and seyyids of 'Omân by Salîl-ibn-Razîk, from A.D. 661-1856; translated from the original Arabic, and edited with notes, appendices, and an introduction, continuing the history down to 1870, by George Percy Badger, F.R.G.S., late chaplain in the Presidency of Bombay.'
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