'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.' [‎67] (228/612)

THE IMAMS OF 'OMAN.
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Duhamish, who were liberally supplied with provisions and
arms by 'Aly-bin-Ahmed, until at length the Christians sued
for peace, which 'Aly accorded on condition that they
evacuated the place. Whereupon 'Aly appointed a man of
his uncle's family, the Al-'Aly, Wali over Julfar and its
dependencies, and returned with his soldiers to Nezwa,
where he was highly congratulated by the Imam for his
successful enterprise.
The Imam then wrote to Hafizh-bin-Sinan, the governor
of Lawa, ordering him to build a fort on the shore at Sohar.
Whereupon Hafizh dispatched letters to his friends residing
within the dependencies of Julfar, and others, summoning
them to his aid, and shortly after he was joined by a number
of men from the Benu-Khalid, the Benu-Lam, and the el-
'Amilr. 1 Moreover, a number of the Sohar people had been
in the Persian Gulf The historical term used to describe the body of water between the Arabian Peninsula and Iran. and on the coast of 'Oman. Julfar at this time ap
pears to have been nominally subject to their tributary the " King of
Hormuz," but they had a separate fort there and cooperated in defending
the Persian garrison as well as themselves.
1 Until subjugated by the Wahhabis the Benu-Khalid were the most
prominent tribe on the Arabian shore of the Persian Gulf The historical term used to describe the body of water between the Arabian Peninsula and Iran. . They occu
pied the country extending a little above el-Katif to the boundary of
the Benu-Yas, in about longitude 53°, including the districts of 'Ojair,
el-Has^ or ILijar, and Katar. Palgrave calls them a " Kahtanic" tribe,
and one of the first known colonists of the coast of el-Ilasa. Among
his genealogies of the el-Azd, under the heading of u the el-Azd, de
scendants of Khatamah," our author mentions a Khalid -bin-Sadus-bin-
Asma'-bin-Sa'ad-bin-Nebhan, who may have been the forefather of the
existing tribe bearing his name. I have pointed out in the Introduction,
however, that Khatamah himself was of the stock of Ma'add, and that
his descendants were regarded as Azdites through his intermarriage A\ith
a family of Kahlan, (the descendant of Kahtan), the progenitor of el-Azd.
The Benu-Lam are a branch of the great Tai tribe, and therefore of
Kahtanic origin, through Kahlan; for Lam, born about a.d . 470, m as
the descendant of Tai, the descendant of Odad, the descendant of Kah
lan. The Tai settled originally in the mountains of Aja and Selma, to
the north-west of Nejd. 1 have met with no account of the cause of their
migration towards the coast. At the present day the Benu-Lam aio
mostly to be found on the banks of the r ligris, between el-Kurnah and
Baghdad. By the " el-'Amur,one of the several Benu- Amir tribes may