The Imamate of Oman: report by George Rentz

This file contains a Comment by the Research Department at the Foreign Office on George Rentz's Book on South-East Arabia entitled "Oman and the Southern Shore of the Persian Gulf" (originally published in 1952), 25 February 1954. It includes photostat copies of sections of Rentz's book in the following order: I) The Imamate of Oman; II) The Dhahirah [Al Dhahirah] (only the first 3 pages); Appendices on Ibadhism, Imams of Oman, Sultans of Muscat, Lieutenant Colonel Lewis Pelly's visit to Riyadh in March 1865, Zakah, and Sources and Bibliography; Index; VI) Qatar; II) The Dhahirah: the remainder of the Chapter; III) Al Buraimi; and IV) Abu Dhabi.