At the core of this book is an attempt to explain a conflict in
Oman in the 1950s and 1960s between two claimants to authority: the
Imam of the Ibadi sect in the interior and the Sultan with his
capital at Muscat on the coast. The crisis, precipitated by two
rival oil companies, acquired wider dimensions because the Sultan
was supported by the British, whilst the Imam was eventually backed
by Saudi Arabia. In his analysis of the roots of this conflict John
Wilkinson traces the themes of regional identity, tribal
organization and political authority over some 1200 years of
history in south-eastern Arabia. The constitution of the Imamate
has periodically unified the tribes of central Oman into a form of
statehood capable of creating an overseas empire. But in spite of
the accruing wealth, notably from Eastern Africa in the nineteenth
century, the institutions necessary for permanent government were
never created.
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