Sultan Qaboos and Modern Oman, 1970–2020

Allen Fromherz is Professor of History at Georgia State University and director of the Middle East Studies Center. He graduated Summa Cum Laude from Dartmouth College in 2002 and received his PhD from St. Andrews University in Scotland in Medieval Islamic History in 2006. Dr. Fromherz has held several international fellowships including Fulbright, Gerda Henkel Stiftung, the Sultan Qaboos Cultural Center. He was a senior fellow in the humanities at NYU Abu Dhabi (2016). He has lived in various parts of the Gulf, including Oman, United Arab Emirates and Qatar. He is President of the American Institute for Maghrib Studies (AIMS). His publications include: Ibn Khaldun (Edinburgh University Press, 2010); The Almohads (IB Tauris, 2012); Qatar (Georgetown Univeristy Press, 2016) and The Near West (Edinburgh University Press, 2016). Abdulrahman al-Salimi is a Governor at the German University of Technology, Sultanate of Oman. He has written and published various books and articles on classical Islamic history.

• Introduction – Sultan Qaboos, Omani Society and the "Blessed Renaissance" – Allen James Fromherz The Legacy of Sultan Qaboos: A Historiographical Note – Uzi Rabi Prehistoric Interactions between Oman and the Indus Civilization: Projecting the Past in the Present –Jonathan Mark KenoyerThe Modern Land of Frankincense – Krista LewisThe Multiple Legacies of Sultan Qaboos: Heritage and Omani Nation Building – Victoria Penziner Hightower and James WorrallStamps as Messengers of the Renaissance: The Postal Issues of Oman during the Reign of Sultan Qaboos –Calvin H. Allen Jr.From the First Renaissance to the Second: The Historical and Legal Basis for the Sultanate – Abdulrahman al SalimiThe Interpretation of Islam under Sultan Qaboos – Valerie J. HoffmanIn the Middle of a Reign – Mandana LimbertConstitutional Reforms During the Reign of Sultan Qaboos – Salim al-KharusiNation and State in Oman: The Initial Impact of 1970 – J.E. PetersonLiterature and Poetry in Oman during the reign of Sultan Qaboos – Barbara Michalak-PikulskaPublic Health and the Omani Renaissance – Sean FoleyBeyond the Horizon and Back: The Sultan Qaboos Scholarship – Jody PrittMuscat and Sultan Qaboos: The Omanization of Muscat and the Muscatization of Oman – Javier Guirado AlonsoDuqm and Salalah: Oman’s Ports and Special Economic Zones – Jeffrey R KinnierGreening Oman: Islamic Environmentalism, Sustainable Development, and Post Oil Futures – Maria F. CurtisOmani Peace-Making and Middle East Crises in the 2010’s: Sultan Qaboos’s last Decade – Juan Cole‘Friend to All, Enemy to None’: Oman’s Quiet Diplomacy since 1970 – Francis Owtram