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THE IMAMS OP 'OMAN.
were any left among the people of ^Oman who cherished
designs on the Imamate, and whether any of the notables
were disposed to surrender their fortified posts to some
rival of his.) AV hen the people saw the camel, they recog
nized it as the Imam Ahmed-bin-Said's; also the carpet
which covered the saddle; whereupon the chief of Yankal
took the camel to Sohar and informed the garrison how it
had been found. The latter, who knew nothing of the
stratagem, returned with it and its trappings to Yankal,
and a rumour then got abroad that the Imam Ahmed-bin-
Said had been murdered, which caused great commotion
throughout 'Oman. The treachery of his enemies now
ripened into overt acts, for the heads of the el-Yaakib, and
of the Benu-Ghafir, and the Benu-Naim and Kutb went to
Belarab-bin-Himyar, el-Yaaruby, and said to him, " Seize the
present opportunity, for the Imam Ahmed-bin-Said has
been killed at el-Bithnah. Rise up, therefore, in behalf of
this matter which we proposed to you, and we will aid you
with men and money." Thereupon Be'larab, yielding to their
solicitations, laid claim to the Imamate. He accordingly
assembled a large army, said to have numbered twenty
thousand men, and dispatched mounted messengers to all
the Nizariyyah and their allies in ^Omam, while he himself
marched with the main body of his forces and encamped at
Fark, of Nezwa, from whence he wrote to the Nizariyyah of
Semail to invest and besiege the fort there.
Ahmed, who was still concealed in the old woman's house,
had directed her to bring him all the news she heard. One
day she came and informed him that the people of Yankal
reported that Belarab-bin-Himyar had laid claim to the
Fmamate, that all the Nizariyyah had joined him, and that
he had gone with his forces to ^Oman and encamped with
them at Fark, of Nezwa. On hearing that, the Imam
Ahmed-bin-Said set out on foot for Sohar, the fort of which
he reached during the night, and wrote from thence to

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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.

Author: Hamid ibn Muhammad ibn Ruzayq

Publication details: London: Printed for the Hakluyt Society

Physical Description: initial roman numeral pagination (i-cxxviii); with map.

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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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front, back, spine, edge, head, tail, front-i, i-r:iii-v, 1:20, 1:128, 1:436, 1:8, iv-r:vi-v, back-i
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Ḥamīd ibn Muḥammad Ibn Ruzayq xx Salil ibn Razik
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