Oman and overseas / edited by Michaela Hoffmann-Ruf and Abdulrahman Al Salimi.

Includes bibliographical references.

Oman and the Outside World until the early 17th Century : Late pre-lslamic Oman : The Inner Evidence- The Outitde View - The Origins of Omani Identity - Omani Seafaring Identity before the Early 1600 : Ethnic and Linguistic Diversity - Umani Ports in Chinese Sources - Omani Seafaring and Omani Boats -- Oman and East Africa : The Swahili Coast : Africa's Window on the Indian Ocean - Ibadis in East Africa : Archaeological and Historical Evidence - The Main Languages of East Africa and their Literatures - The Portuguese in East Africa and the Omani Reconquest of East Africa -- The Omani Maritime "Empire" : The Growth of the Relationships between Oman, the Gulf and the Western Waters of the Indian Ocean. Oman: The Corner-Stone of a Maritime System - The Formation of Oman's Maritime Power under the Yaariba and Sayyid Said - From Slumber to Assertion: Maritime Expansion of the Ibadis of Oman and the Responses of Estado da India, 1622-1720 -- The Outside View on Oman and Ibadism : Omani Trade and Cultural Relations with East Asian Countries - Oman and Omanis in Portuguese Sources in the Early Modern Period (ca. 1500-1750) - Wood, Horses and Friendship. The Arabic Letters from Muscat to the Dutch in Kochi (1779) , and Batavia (1798–1806) - The British Historical View of Oman and Ibadism - Oman and Ibadism in Modern French Historiography : Assessing a Semi-Failure - Oman: The Russian View since the 15th Century - Oman : The Arab Views - The Sultanate and the Ottoman State in Africa - Mosaic Oman : Views from India - African Perspectives - Danish and Norwegian Travel Accounts of Oman, 1765–1995 : Changing Views across Sea and Land - Oman through Jewish Travellers' Eyes - A Historical Survey of US-Omani Relations from 1790 to the Present - The Seminar für Orientalische Sprachen (SOS) at Berlin : Aspects of the Relationship between Oman and Germany in the Late 19th and Early 20th Century - Historical Coincidences between Oman and Brazil : Portuguese Invaders, African Slaves and the Majlis al-Jinn - The South East European View - A Political Culture and Foreign Policy Shaped by a Moderate Religious View : The Case of the Sultanate of Oman. Oman and the outside world until the early 17th Century -- Oman and East Africa -- The Omani maritime "empire" -- The outside view on Oman and Ibadism.