The first sultan of Zanzibar : scrambling for power and trade in the nineteenth-century Indian Ocean / Beatrice Nicolini.

Originally published in English: Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2004, with title Makran, Oman and Zanzibar.

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

PART I. CHAPTER ONE. The Western Indian Ocean Idyll : 1.1 Makran ; Terra Incognita - 1.2 British Descriptions of 19th Century's Muscat - 1.3 Sub-Saharan East Africa's Terminus - 1.4 Tribes and Trade Interfaces -- CHAPTER TWO. The Maritime Routes to East Africa : 2.1 Indian Merchant Communities - 2.2 Why Zanzibar? - 2.3 Magic East African Practices - 2.4 Luxury Goods - 2.5 Europeans in Zanzibar -- CHAPTER THREE. Zanzibar and Swahili Coast : Land, Power Groups and Social Classes : 3.1 Swahili Origins - 3.2 Swahili Urban Landscape - 3.3 Landed Property and Social Stratification -- PART II. CHAPTER FOUR. The Anglo-French Rivalry : The Rise of Zanzibne (1799-1810) : 4.1 Sultan bin Ahmad AL Bu Said ( 1792-1804) The Father of the First Sultan of Zanziba - 4.2 Napoleon and the Intercepted Letters - 4.3 Said bin Sultan Al Bu Said and the British Conquest of the Île de France/Mauritius (1810) - 4.4 The Memoranda of J.S. Buckingham ; A Portrait of Said bin Sultan Al Bu Said - 4.5 David Vatrin and Vincenzo Maurizi, Two Italian Spies in the Indian Ocean? -- CHAPTER FIVE. Slave Trade and British Abolition Policy : 5.1 Slaves - 5.2 Ivory and Spices - 5.3 The Swahili Coast and the Hinterland - 5.4 British View of Said bin Sultan Al Bu Said -- CHAPTER SIX. The Moresby Treaty (4/22 September 1822) : 6.1 United States of America and Zanzibar - 6.2 Said bin Sultan Al Bu Said and Atkins Hamerton -- Appendix : Coins in Use -- Map of the coasts of Oman and Baluchistan.