BUREAU OF IMAMAT OMAN.

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Five pamphlets on the Omani question. A group of five pamphlets issued by the Bureau of Imamat Oman in the 1950s. We have only traced one other copy of each at the Qatar National Library.With seats in Cairo, Damascus, and Baghdad, the Bureau was established in the 1950s to support the liberation of Oman and a government under Imam Ghalib. The Omani Nationalist Forces of the Bureau opposed Said bin Taimur, ruler of the Sultanate of Muscat and Oman, which had obtained British-supported independence in 1951. These pamphlets were printed in Mohammad Helmy El-Meniawy's Dar al-Kitab al-'Arabi, in Cairo, specialising in Islamic and reformist publications; in the mid-1950s, his publishing house was targeted and persecuted by President Gamal Abdel Nasser's regime for its links to the Muslim Brotherhood. The pamphlets are: Qadīat al-imāma fī 'Umān ("The Imamate Issue in Oman"), M'arakat al-hajarīīn ("The Battle of the al-Hajar"), Ightisāb imāmat 'Umān ("The Violation of the Imamate of Oman"), 'Umān ("Oman"), and Mū'āmarāt barītānīa fī 'Umān wa-l-khalīj al-'arabī ("Britain's Conspiracies in Oman and the Arabian Gulf"). The introductions in the pamphlets were written by Saleh bin 'Issa al-Harthi, a leader of the namesake tribe, and a fighter against Said bin Taimur's government. The pamphlets summarize the plight of the Omani Nationalist Forces against the Sultanate of Muscat, British colonialism, and foreign interference in Oman more generally, with appeals to their "Omani brothers".

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