The Self Representation of The Imamate of Oman: the processes of construction of the list of imams

Contenu

Matsuo, Masaki. 2007. « The Self Representation of The Imamate of Oman: The Processes of Construction of the List of Imams » 25: 67-82, bibliographie, consulté le 11 mai 2025, https://www.ibadica.org/s/bibliographie/item/37583

Titre

The Self Representation of The Imamate of Oman: the processes of construction of the list of imams

Auteur

Matsuo, Masaki Voir tous les contenus avec cette valeur

Date

2008

Résumé

As written in pamphlets issued by Arab Information Center in New York, the number of Ibadhi imams of Oman, who, according to allegations made by delegations of Arab countries in the United Nations, had ruled over Oman as legitimate rulers, was 61. Although it created an ostensive image on the historical reality of the Imamate of Oman, this number was a kind of invention of the Cairo office of the government-in-exile of the Imamate. This number related in pamphlets of Arab Information Center was based on information supplied by the Cairo office, which had made a list of imams with some authentic features from non-authentic French material, a Genealogical table of Zambaur.
Some contradictory elements to the history legitimating the Imamate were altered and such alternations were concealed, Zambaur’s genealogical table was changed into the authentic material with plausible features as if being based on Salimi, a great Omani historian. This list could be recognized not a forgery but a result of self-representation of the Imamate of Oman without resource of discourse.

Sujet

Imamat -- Oman Voir tous les contenus avec cette valeur

Langue

jap

volume

25

pages

67-82

Matsuo, Masaki. 2007. « The Self Representation of The Imamate of Oman: The Processes of Construction of the List of Imams » 25: 67-82, bibliographie, consulté le 11 mai 2025, https://www.ibadica.org/s/bibliographie/item/37583