"تاريخ أئمة وأسياد عُمان بقلم سليل ابن رزيق، من ٦٦١-١٨٥٦ م، مترجم من الأصل العربي، ومُحرّر بملاحظات وملاحق ومقدمة تواصل التاريخ حتى سنة ١٨٧٠، بقلم جورج بيرسي بادجر، عضو في الجمعية الجغرافية الملكية والقس الراحل في رئاسة بومباي." [‎٢‎٠] (٦١٢/٣٣)

editor's preface.
will prevent such mispronunciations as Maskat in
stead of Maskat. The circumflex ( A ) over a vowel
prolongs it: i is equivalent to ee, u to oo. The
apostrophe before a vowel is intended to express the
guttural 'ain ; before a consonant the ellipsis of a
preceding vowel.
I have retained the prefix demonstrative article
el wherever it exists as a substantive compound of
the designation. Inattention to this peculiarity on
the part of Europeans has frequently led to their
being misunderstood by the Arabs. As no Arab
would say el-Maskat or el-'Aden with the article, so
neither would he say Rastak or Bahrein without it.
a
The word Al before a proper name is not the Ara
bic article, but a noun signifying family or progeny,
a
e.g., Al- Wahibah, the Family of Wahibah. Bin, son,
is an ellipsis for Ihn ; thus. Said-bin-Ahmed, Sa'id
the son of Ahmed. Benu, the plural of Ihn, prefixed
to a proper name, means the children or descendants
of the person indicated, and is morever equivalent
to our tribe or clan. Bu, father, an ellipsis for dim,
is sometimes prefixed to the name of a man's son,
and applied to the father instead of his own, (see
notes, p. 156), and sometimes apparently when the
pedigree is not well ascertained, or not supposed to
be eminent beyond the iiame given, which I conceive
to be the case as regards the reigning dynasty of
'Oman, the Al-Bu-Sa'id, the Family of the Father of
Sa'id.
G. P. B.