Sovereigns of the sea : Omani ambition in the age of empire / Seema Alavi.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: Haryana, India : Penguin Random House India, 2023Copyright date: ©2023Description: xxxvi, 393 pages : illustrations ; 25 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 0670096849
  • 9780670096848
  • 0143464280
  • 9780143464280
Subject(s): LOC classification:
  • DS247.O67 A53 2023
Contents:
Introduction -- Sayyid Saʻīd: the Arab sultan in the age of revolution -- Sayyid Majid: the imperious counter-revolutionary -- Sayyid Thuwanyi: the counter-revolutionary sultan -- Sayyid Turki: the sultan in the age of the nation state -- Sultan Barghash: the imperial bridehead.
Summary: This definitive book on the Sultans of Oman is a thrilling historical account of their action-packed battles, daring expeditions, epic triumphs and ingenious politics in the long nineteenth century. It puts the optic of 'micro-history' on their fascinating lives as they navigated the geopolitics of their time and propelled the politics of the Western Indian Ocean. It offers a comprehensive and in-depth examination of the ambitions of the Omani patriarch Sultan Sayyid Saʻīd and his four sons and shows how integral they were to the political culture of the region.
Item type: BOOK
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Introduction -- Sayyid Saʻīd: the Arab sultan in the age of revolution -- Sayyid Majid: the imperious counter-revolutionary -- Sayyid Thuwanyi: the counter-revolutionary sultan -- Sayyid Turki: the sultan in the age of the nation state -- Sultan Barghash: the imperial bridehead.

This definitive book on the Sultans of Oman is a thrilling historical account of their action-packed battles, daring expeditions, epic triumphs and ingenious politics in the long nineteenth century. It puts the optic of 'micro-history' on their fascinating lives as they navigated the geopolitics of their time and propelled the politics of the Western Indian Ocean. It offers a comprehensive and in-depth examination of the ambitions of the Omani patriarch Sultan Sayyid Saʻīd and his four sons and shows how integral they were to the political culture of the region.