Oman Reborn

Author : Linda Pappas Funsch
Publisher : Springer
Page : 245 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2015-12-29
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781137502018

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Oman Reborn by Linda Pappas Funsch Pdf

The Sultanate of Oman is one of the few "good news" stories to have emerged from the Middle East in recent memory. This book traces the narrative of a little-known and relatively stable Arab country whose history of independence, legacy of interaction with diverse cultures, and enlightened modern leadership have transformed it in less than fifty years from an isolated medieval-style potentate to a stable, dynamic, and largely optimistic country. At the heart of this fascinating story is Oman’s sultan, Qaboos bin Sa’id, friend to both East and West, whose unique leadership style has resulted in both domestic and foreign policy achievements during more than four decades in office. Exploring Oman from a historical perspective, Funsch examines how the country’s unique blend of tradition and modernization has enabled it to succeed while others in the region have failed. Accounts of the author’s own experiences with Oman’s transformation add rich layers of depth, texture, and personality to the narrative.

Author : Andrew David Thompson
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 184 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2019-10-31
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9783030303983

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Christianity in Oman by Andrew David Thompson Pdf

This book explores the relationship between the distinctive Islamic beliefs (Ibadism) of Oman and how they define the experience of the church with regards to religious freedom. Oman is a nation with a long and glorious history of maritime trade, stretching from China and India to the East coast of Africa. From sultan to shopkeeper, farmer to craftsman, the citizens of Oman embrace a surprising diversity of cultural heritage ranging from Baluchi, Persian, Yemeni, and East African. Yet, there has hitherto been very little research about Christianity in this part of the world. Through the use of historical research, interviews and theological discourse, Andrew David Thompson analyzes and reveals the distinctive experience of the Church in Oman.

Author : Marielle Risse
Publisher : Springer
Page : 266 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2019-06-21
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9783030170042

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Community and Autonomy in Southern Oman by Marielle Risse Pdf

This book explores how there is latitude for people to make their own choices and how the chances to assert independence change over time in a Muslim, Arab, tribal culture. The book first gives a brief overview of day-to-day life in the Dhofar region of southern Oman, then focuses on how the traits of self-control and self-respect are linked in the everyday actions of several groups of tribes who speak Gibali (Jibbali, also known as Shari/Śḥeret), a non-written, Modern South Arabian language. Although no work can express the totality of a culture, this text describes how Gibalis are constantly shifting between preserving autonomy and signaling membership in family, tribal, and national communities. The work reflects observations and conclusions from over ten years of research into the history and culture of the Dhofar region along with longstanding, deep involvement with both men and women in the Gibali community.

Author : Diana Darke,Sandra Shields
Publisher : Bradt Travel Guides
Page : 300 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : History
ISBN : 1841621684

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Oman by Diana Darke,Sandra Shields Pdf

The modern coastal city of Muscat provides a gateway to scuba diving, dhow cruising and turtle watching, whilst the ancient inner regions provide ideal terrain to take a 4WD through wadis or desert. Some of the most luxurious hotels in the Middle East are in Oman, so this guide is suitable for up-market travellers and backpackers alike.

Author : Tony Walsh,Diana Darke
Publisher : Bradt Travel Guides
Page : 380 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2016-12
Category : Oman
ISBN : 9781784770204

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Oman by Tony Walsh,Diana Darke Pdf

Bradt's is the most up-to-date and informative guide to Oman, the Arabian peninsula's most welcoming destination, fully revised and updated by an author who has been living in Oman and Arabia since 1986. Oman is finally reaping the economic benefit of its location between Europe, Africa and Asia with substantial investment in major shipping ports and significant expansion of the national airline with new routes to Western Europe and East Asia. Despite being at the crossroads of great trade routes and empires, Oman has remained an independent country through much of its long history, and today tourism and travel are a major focus for Oman's government. This new edition covers the recent substantial investment in new airport facilities and upmarket accommodation and also features the historic UNESCO towns of Samharam and Al Balid. If you want to live like a local, the guide also tells you how to slow cook the traditional spiced meat shuwa and how to be a perfect guest if invited into an Omani home. Oman is not merely a desert. While it has the classic sand seas - Wihibah Sands - home to the nomadic Bedouin and their camels, this sultanate also boasts lush monsoon-soaked valleys near Salalah, mountain villages surrounded by green terraced fields of fruit trees and rose bushes, and the reef-fringed Ad Dimaniyyat Islands. With such a varied wilderness there is huge scope for adventure. Oman is increasingly perceived as a high-end cultural destination. The new Opera House has opened, directly supported by the Sultan, with top-notch international performers like Placido Domingo. The guide includes advice on property buying, since Omani law changed to allow expatriates to buy, explaining the rules and regulations. There is also a detailed overview of language schools teaching Arabic, not found in other guides. With advice on cultural etiquette, basic Arabic phrases and political history - as well as full practical information on where to stay and eat, and what to see and do - this fully updated edition remains the essential guide for travellers looking to discover the real Oman.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 8 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 1981
Category : Oman
ISBN : UCR:31210024851998

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Background notes, Oman by Anonim Pdf

Author : Majid Al-Khalili
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 196 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2009-05-19
Category : History
ISBN : 9780313352256

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Oman's Foreign Policy by Majid Al-Khalili Pdf

This is the first book in more than a decade to look systematically at the foundations and practices of Oman's foreign policy and its impact on the production and distribution of oil. An expert in the history of the Sultanate of Oman, Majid Al-Khalili provides new information and a fresh analysis of the lands bordering the Arabian Sea and the Gulf of Oman. Beginning with an examination the reign of Sultan Qaboos bin Said, as well as the sultanate's geography and how location has influenced its history, Oman's Foreign Policy: Foundation and Practice analyzes Oman's foreign relations from the early 20th century until the beginning of the 21st century, providing the background to recent events. Following an analysis of the sultanate's "renaissance" in the 1970s and 1980s, the book considers how Oman's foreign policy changed in the wake of the 1991 Gulf War. It also examines historic power rivalries in the region, as well as modern conflicts that now include Iran, Iraq, and Saudi Arabia. The result is a comprehensive understanding of Oman's place in the Middle East—and its influence upon the world's changing power structure.

Author : Calvin H. Allen, Jr
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 154 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2016-02-05
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781317291640

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Oman: the Modernization of the Sultanate by Calvin H. Allen, Jr Pdf

Until the 1970s Oman was an isolated, almost medieval kingdom, virtually unknown to the outside world. The 1970 palace coup that brought Sultan Qaboos b. Sa’id Al-Sa’id to power also brought Oman into the twentieth century. Development programmes made modernization a rapid process, and Oman’s location at the entrance to the Straits of Hormuz gave the country an increasing importance to US security interests in the Gulf region. Yet despite modernization, Oman remains an unknown land. This book, first published in 1987, dispels some of the mystery by focusing on the land, the people and the history. It explores the influences on events of trade, foreign involvement in Omani affairs, and Ibadism (the principal sect of Islam in Oman). It also emphasizes the role of the Sultan in contemporary Oman. The architect of Oman’s ‘new age’, Qaboos has overseen significant changes in the country’s political system and rapid economic growth financed by oil exports.

Author : Katariina Simonen
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 198 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2021-10-19
Category : Law
ISBN : 9783030852184

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Ancient Water Agreements, Tribal Law and Ibadism by Katariina Simonen Pdf

This book traces the development of Oman's inclusive agreements and highlights their importance for international negotiations, dealing with issues most relevant to humanity's own survival today, nuclear weapons or climate change. In Oman, a historical seafaring nation on the south-eastern corner of the Arabian Peninsula, a culture of agreement that accommodates the interests of everyone has developed around the division of scarce water resources. Life in the arid inland of the Omani Hajar mountains would not have been possible without water. Irrigation channel (falaj) construction is extremely old and skilful therein. Local practices evolved around the division of water and land on the basis of fairness. The community would be best served by inclusion and the avoidance of conflict. A specific Islamic school called Ibadi arrived at Oman early on in the eighth century. Ibadi scholars conserved local practices. Consultation and mediation by sheikhs and the religious leader, Imam, became the law of the land. The Omanis were known as the People of Consultation, Ahl Al Shura. In time, the practice of inclusive agreements would extend far beyond the village level, affecting Oman ́s foreign policy under Sultan Qaboos. Oman ́s water diplomacy succeeded in uniting the contestants of the Middle East Peace Process in the 1990s to work together on common problems of water desalination.

Author : Allen James Fromherz
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2018-08-31
Category : History
ISBN : 9781474430678

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Gulf in World History by Allen James Fromherz Pdf

Provides a concise up-to-date introduction to and overview of black nationalism in American history

Author : Ian F. W. Beckett,John Pimlott
Publisher : Pen and Sword
Page : 313 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2011-07-25
Category : History
ISBN : 9781473813373

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Counter Insurgency by Ian F. W. Beckett,John Pimlott Pdf

An international study of counter-insurgency strategies, tactics, and techniques developed in warzones from Vietnam to Latin America and beyond. Insurgencies account for most of the modern world’s armed conflicts. Leading armies across the globe are constantly developing and adjusting counter-insurgency strategies based on experience in the field. Learning from this experience is essential to ongoing peacekeeping effort. Editors Ian Beckett and John Pimlott brought together a team of expert contributors who provided an international overview of counter-insurgency strategies and techniques as they were perceived and put into practice a generation ago. Each chapter considers a different army and describes its reaction to insurgency, its operations in the field and the thinking behind its counter-insurgency strategy. Changes made in strategy and tactics in response to shifting circumstances and new threats are given particular attention.

Author : Frank Clements
Publisher : Longman Publishing Group
Page : 210 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 1980
Category : Oman
ISBN : UOM:39015004973205

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Oman, the Reborn Land by Frank Clements Pdf

A historical background of Oman which demonstrates the backwardness of the country at the time of the coup, while also conveying the proud tradition and prosperity that the nation once enjoyed.

Author : Regina Dorman, PhD, APRN,Mary De Chesnay, PhD, RN, PMHCNS-BC, FAAN
Publisher : Springer Publishing Company
Page : 380 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2018-06-28
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9780826172112

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Case Studies in Global Health Policy Nursing by Regina Dorman, PhD, APRN,Mary De Chesnay, PhD, RN, PMHCNS-BC, FAAN Pdf

“Dorman and De Chesnay...offer a wealth of valuable information students and other healthcare providers would normally not receive until they were in the trenches of their global experience...[They] deliver...nuances of ideology about care and disease from a number of different countries, what global health policy entails and means to healthcare providers traveling the world, along with case studies from a number of guides/experienced global experts.” -Lorna Kendrick, PhD, APRN, PMHCNS-BC Professor and Director, School of Nursing, California State University San Marcos From the Foreword Case Studies in Global Health Policy Nursing unpacks key global health issues and analyzes the surrounding health care policies and their impact through case studies. Designed specifically for graduate nursing students, this text explores the implications of global initiatives designed to eradicate disease and promote physical and mental health. As globalization takes a front row seat in the digital age and political dynamics shift more rapidly than ever, possibilities and opportunities for health care have arisen beyond the hospital-based focus, especially for diseases and trends that cross continental divides. Every case study contains a multidisciplinary perspective, featuring contributions by expert nurses, public health professionals, and policy researchers. Presented in a consistent format for ease of use, each case study includes an overview, background, relevant research, and in-depth information on its significance as a critical global issue. This text covers critical, current topics such as health care for transgender individuals, refugees, and patients on the autism spectrum, as well as ongoing problems like access to clean water, HIV/AIDS, and human trafficking. End-of-chapter exercises reinforce content and supplementary instructor materials are available. Key Features: Delivers topical, in-depth examination of key global issues for graduate-level nursing students Provides consistent format for each case study for ease of use Presents an interdisciplinary approach with content from expert nurses, public health professionals, and policy researchers

Author : Brian Hunter
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 1734 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2021-06-21
Category : History
ISBN : 9783112420607

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1991–1992 by Brian Hunter Pdf

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Author : NA NA
Publisher : Springer
Page : 1719 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2016-12-29
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780230271203

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The Statesman's Yearbook: 1991-92 by NA NA Pdf

The classic reference work that provides annually updated information on the countries of the world.