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The Mukramids

c. 390–443/c. 1000–40

Coastal Oman

between 390 and 394/

between 1000 and 1004

al-Ḥusayn b. Mukram, Abū Muḥammad I

⊘ before 415/1024

‘Alī b. al-Ḥusayn, Abu ‘1-Qāsim Nāsir al-Dīn, d. 428/1037

⊘ 428/1037

Abu ‘l-Jaysh b. ‘Alī, Nāsir al-Dīn, d. soon after becoming governor

431–3/1040–2

Abū Muḥammad II b. ‘Alī

433/1042

Assumption of direct rule by the Būyids

The Mukramids were presumably a local Omani family, who around the beginning of the eleventh century were appointed governors in coastal Oman, with their capital at Ṣuḥār, by the Būyids of Persia (see below, no. 75). The interior of Oman must have been held by the Imāms elected by the Ibādl Khārijī community there. The Mukramid Abū Muḥammad I al-Ḥusayn subsequently served the Būyid Amirs in Fars. The end of this brief line of hereditary governors came after a revolt against his suzerain by Abū Muḥammad II, so that in 433/1042 a Būyid prince was installed as governor in Oman.

S. M. Stern and A. D. H. Bivar, ‘The coinage of Oman under Abū Kālijār the Buwayhid‘, NC, 6th series, 18(1958), 147–56, with a genealogical table of the Mukramids at p. 149.

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