Annals of Oman to 1728-1883  

by Sirhan Ibn Sa’id Ibn Sirhan, translated and annotated by EC Ross, 1984

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Annals of Oman to 1728 and up to 1883 is a carefully-annotated translation by E. C. Ross from a work attributed to Sirhan ibn Sa’id ibn Sirhan, and covers the history of Oman from early Islamic times to 1728. The translator subsequently produced an outline of Omani history from the end of Sirhan’s account up to 1883, and a further chapter of Sirhan’s Kashf al-.ghumma dealing with the Ibadhi movement in Oman, which are also here reprinted.

This compilation of scholarly material on Oman out of print for more than a century is completed by a note on the Tribes of Oman by S. B. Miles, and a new introduction by Philip Ward to set these contributions in perspective

The Annals of Oman by Sirhan has always been cherished as a key document in the understanding of Oman. Even in the nineteenth century, Ross could write that “copies are extremely rare in ‘Oman; and out of that country I doubt if it is known, I have only heard of two copies existing”. The book’s rarity and desirability have led to this first modern reprint, with associated material, as volume 16 of the “Arabia Past and Present” series published by The Oleander Press of Cambridge.