This book presents a detailed overview of the firearms used in Oman
over the last four centuries. Portable firearms were brought into
the Arabian Gulf by the Portuguese, but there is no trace of these
early weapons the region. In Oman, the typical matchlock guns with
decorated Indian barrels were highly esteemed and they were passed
from generation to generation as a family heritage. Matchlock guns
were replaced only by breech-loading Martini Henry rifles at the
end of the 19th century, when Muscat became the major firearms'
entrepot in the Arabian Gulf with hundreds of thousands of breech
loading rifles re-exported throughout the whole region up to
Afghanistan and Persia. The Martini Henry rifle and its variants
were by far the most common weapon and Belgian made Martini Henry
were specifically engraved for the Muscat market. Cannon entered
the country in great number mostly as ordnances on Royal Navy ships
and they are now kept in forts, towers and fortified buildings
across the entire Oman. The weapons described in this book are
mostly from the National Museum and Bait al Zubair Museum in
Muscat.
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