'Muscat reforms: customs; finances and negotiations with Omanis' [‎77r] (158/508)

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•>tuler of anything more than a tribe or a small confederation
of tribes Is an anomaly unless his rule Is basei on moral
f^rce, taat i? r#ll(£#ofi, or on a At trial force brought from
outside. In the latter cnce ida rule can be but temporary t
is win; 1 "1 ni!^ * t j po^alar, a ii mus-t fall when
his source of ower trm oatsl .e fall»» Tae ^owor of tuc
iCmlrH of Vajl Is iue MX/ to the fanatlftiii of the Waiiabl
l"r yix tool-a !
soct lea ue Iv- :> • The chl«f of tne
Bha joiar io an actual potentate because of tae power
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and liomoge^eity if hi^ trlh^. ts:'- -^e ^Inc of the Hedja?.
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Is support«1 mtlrely :■„ us, is a.Mini bir&t&m run by
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3«^iida€ls or Syrians, a. i his rellefcoun Influence nil.
In the case of Muscat and Oman unity was achieve! by the
^eat Hultan Bay 13 M . muflh Ms s^a power # Sefore ito
introduction of ste ;/ uscat vas a necessary port of call
for all ships trading with the Guli f zrA its ruler in con
sequence controlled the ulf trade. T ; ith the intro^actiom of
steaa the power of the Sultan of Muscatwanei ant their
suzerainty over the interior merger! froa : act to tolerated
theory, till finallymisiu misrule anl a religious re
vival causad even the theory* to be thrown off alto^etiier.
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The sooni main csu-e is, that lookins w©
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did at Arabia tarou&i Xniian spectacles , we iia not rea-
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Use this, -tnl even if we h^d realised it,it le difficult ;
to see what should have been our ri&ht course owing to the
many Interests involved. The final nail in the coffin of
the Bultam-. of Muscat was the international iifficultien
at the beginning of thi* century which made any regulation
by us of Muscat affairs^or any recojnitlon b^ us of the
practical existance of another «over«inty in O kan^a matter
of lifficalty if not an impossibility.