The Ibadi imamate rises in Oman

قيام الإمامة الإباضية في عمان

c. 671 CE · 51 AH – c. 671 CE · c. 51 AH† †

† Hijri date derived by computation from the Gregorian/Julian date; it may differ from the transmitted date by a day or two.

Muscat

The Ibadi imamate rose in Oman about 51/671, settling Muscat and the coast under its imams 1.

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The Umayyad Period
Region
Arabia
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660670680 c.
The Rashidun Caliphate · The Umayyad Period

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Muscat

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Capture of Muscat· Capture of Muscat· Capture of Muscat (1649)· Ali bin Said of Zanzibar· Azzan bin Qais· Faisal bin Turki Al Busaidi· Haitham bin Tariq· Qaboos bin Said

Sources

  1. Tarikh al-Islam — Hasan Ibrahim Hasan
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Capture of Muscat

Draft card for the capture of Muscat in 1552, Piri Reis's Ottoman seizure of the Omani port from the Portuguese; its sources are not yet checked on the page.