53
1034–1156/1625–1743
Oman, with their centre at al-Rustdā
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1034/1625 |
Nāṣir b. Murshid |
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1059/1649 |
Sulṭān lb. Sayf |
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c. 1091–1103/c. 1680–92 |
Abu Arab b. Sayf, in Jabrin |
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1103/1692 |
Sayf I b. Sulṭān I, in al-Rustāq |
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1123/1711 |
Sulṭān II b. Sayf I, in al-Hazm |
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1131/1719 |
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1134/1722 |
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1137–40/1724–8 |
Muḥammad b. Nāṣir al-Ghāfirí, guardian of Sayf II, proclaimed Imām |
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1151/1738 |
Sulṭān b. Murshid, rival Imām |
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1167/1754 |
Succession to power of the Āl Bū Sa‘īd |
The Ya‘rubī chiefs rose to prominence as Imāms of the Ibāḍīs at a time when coastal Oman was threatened by the Portuguese and when interior Oman had been largely taken over by other, non-Ibāḍī Arab groups like the Nabhānīs and immigrants from Bahrayn and Persia. In the two or three decades after Nāṣir b. Murshid‘s accession in 1034/1625, the Ya‘rubīs secured their power against external enemies like the Portuguese and the Persian Ṣafawids. But in the early eighteenth century, the succession of a minor, Sayf II b. Sulṭān II, led to internal disputes between the tribal groups of the Ḥināwīs and the Ghāfirīs, with rival candidates for the Imamate and intervention by the Persians at Muscat (Masqat) and Ṣuḥār. It now fell to the rising power of the Āl Bū Sa‘īdīs to eject the intruders, replace the quarrelling last Ya‘rubids and make firm their own authority in both Oman and the East African coast (see below, nos 54, 65).
Zambaur, 128.
EI1 ‘Ya‘rub‘ (A. Grohmann).
R. D. Bathurst, The Ya‘rubī Dynasty of Oman, Oxford University D.Phil, thesis 1967, unpubl.
J. C. Wilkinson, The Imamite Tradition of Oman, Cambridge 1987, 12–13, with a genealogical table at p. 13.
