'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.' [‎230] (391/612)

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THE IMAMS OF 'OMAN 7 .
summoned to submit to his authority. The book began
thus:—In the name of God, the merciful, the compas
sionate ! This is the book of the Solution of Difficulties?
written by the sheikh Muhammad-bin-^Abdu-^l-Wahhab.
May God grant him the highest reward, and admit him into
heaven without bringing him to account." The treatise
contained a mass of incoherent sentences quite inconsistent
with the truth, and no one took any notice of it. Never
theless, 'Abdu-T-'Aziz sent el-Harik, one of his Nubian
slaves, to 'Oman with a force of seven hundred cavalry, and
he waged war upon the Benu-Yas until they submitted to
him. He then attacked the Benu-Naim and Kutb, in con
junction with the Benu-Yas, and reduced them also. More
over, the ezh-Zhawahir and the esh-Shawamis, and all the
Hadhr of ezh-Zhahirah eventually yielded to him. He took
up his residence at Tawwam, and levied whatever amouut
of Zakdh he chose from the people. He also began to make
incursions into el-Batinah, and entered into an alliance
with the el-'Uttub, who also became converts to the religion
of the Tauhih* and thereupon commenced committing out
rages upon the sea, seizing every ship that fell in their way.
Then a dispute arose between Sultan -bin-el-Imam-Ahmed
and Hamid-bin-Nasir, el-Ghafiry, esh-Shakily, el-Ghafiry,
respecting the heritage of Nasir's daughter, Hamid-bin-
Nasir's sister, who was wife to Sultan,' 5 and on whose death
1 The original Arabic title is Kashf-esh-ShulhAt. It is to be regretted
that Mr. Palgrave has not given us the titles of those ahhaby trea
tises, written by the same author, which he appears to have read.
" Their invariable theme," he says, " is the explanation and confirma
tion of the doctrines characteristic of his sect."" Travels in Last, and
Cent. Arabia, vol. i. p. 379.
2 A noun formed from Wahhdb, part of the cognomen of the author
of the sect, signifying Wahhabeeism, like our Calvinism from ( alvin.
'Abdu-'l-Wahhftb means the Servant of [God] the bountiful Giver.
3 Here wc have another intermarriage between the Al-Bu-Sa'id dy
nasty and the el-Ghaliry tribe. The other instance, mentioned at p. 183,