Monsoon Revolution: Republicans, Sultans, and Empires in Oman, 1965-1976
Abdel Razzaq Takriti
Abstract
It describes its three purposes: historical retrieval of the Dhufar revolution, revision of modern Omani history, and contextualisation of local events in a manner that accounts for their global and regional interconnections. A review of the literature on Oman is provided and the gaps in the literature are identified. A section on terminology is also included, in which broader theories are engaged, and the revolutionary character of the events that unfolded in Dhufar between 1965 and 1976 is emphasised. Finally, the chapters of the book are outlined, and the broad range of Arabic and English s ... More
It describes its three purposes: historical retrieval of the Dhufar revolution, revision of modern Omani history, and contextualisation of local events in a manner that accounts for their global and regional interconnections. A review of the literature on Oman is provided and the gaps in the literature are identified. A section on terminology is also included, in which broader theories are engaged, and the revolutionary character of the events that unfolded in Dhufar between 1965 and 1976 is emphasised. Finally, the chapters of the book are outlined, and the broad range of Arabic and English sources on which they are based is discussed.
Keywords:
literature on oman,
literature on Dhufar,
revolutionary theory,
omani archival sources
Bibliographic Information
| Print publication date: 2013 |
Print ISBN-13: 9780199674435 |
| Published to Oxford Scholarship Online: September 2013 |
DOI:10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199674435.001.0001 |
