Historical Landscapes
Contenu
- Titre
- Historical Landscapes
- Créateur
- Simonen, Katariina Voir tous les contenus avec cette valeur
- Date
- 2021
- Dans
- Ancient Water Agreements, Tribal Law and Ibadism: Sources of Inspiration for the Middle East Desalination Research Centre – and Beyond? Voir tous les contenus avec cette valeur
- Résumé
- Omani civilization is very old. Early Bronze Age civilization in the fourth millennium BC unified the whole Oman peninsula from the Abu Dhabi islands to Ra’s al-Hadd and Masirah Island. Coastal regions were in constant touch with the outside world as boats, loaded with copper, diorite and frankincense travelled far, from the south-eastern shores of Africa along the coast of the Indian Ocean rim. In contrast, villages in the Hajar mountains formed isolated pockets in the valleys and on the slopes of the mountains. Regardless, the irrigation was a matter for the village where agreements over irrigation systems were negotiated and managed on a customary basis. The governing power, whether it was a religious Imam, a secular king, a sultan or a foreign occupier, was a factor in the village reality. At times this was beneficial, as under the First unitary Imamate in the eighth to ninth century, when customary law and Islamic law on irrigation were consolidated into a harmonised whole. At times, the collapse of central power and subsequent internal fighting between the tribes resulted in significant destruction and the abandonment of settlement. The birth of a modern Omani state in the latter half of the twentieth century under Sultan Qaboos signalled a break with the past, except for the culture, which continues to live in the traditions and laws of the people of the land.
- Editeur
- Springer International Publishing Voir tous les contenus avec cette valeur
- Place
- Cham
- Langue
- eng
- rédacteur
- Simonen, Katariina Voir tous les contenus avec cette valeur
- pages
- 15-52
- ISBN
- 978-3-030-85218-4
Simonen, Katariina, “Historical Landscapes”, Springer International Publishing, 2021, bibliographie, consulté le 18 septembre 2024, https://ibadica.org/s/bibliographie/item/11095
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