[Oman-L] Archives in Oman

[dhirsch at library.ucla.edu]

For the UAE there is the Center for Documentation and Research in Abu 
Dhabi now directed by Dr. Abdulla Abdulkareem El-Reyes and the 
National Archives which are housed in the same building, but they are 
officially two different entities. You can contact Dr. Abdulla at 
dg at cdr.gov.ae



David G. Hirsch
Librarian for Middle Eastern Studies
YRL Collections, Research, and Instructional Services
Charles E. Young Research Library A11630C
UCLA
Box 951575
Los Angeles, CA 90095-1575
email: dhirsch at library.ucla.edu
tel: +1-310-825-2930
fax: +1-310-825-6795 efax: +1-707-313-7712

----- Original Message -----
From: Joachim Duester <jduester at oman.org>
Date: Friday, May 26, 2006 0:27 am
Subject: Re: [Oman-L] Archives in Oman
To: oman-l at oman.org

> For the Sultanate: As another helpful contact on the
> archives question, I would suggest John E. Peterson
> (see his personal website www.jepeterson.net ).
> Personally, I would not pin any hopes on the
> availability of archival sources in Oman. They do seem
> to exist, however: at least the authors of the British
> Memorial prepared for arbitration in the Buraimi
> dispute quote from archival material, and John B.
> Kelly refers to them in his "Eastern Arabian
> Frontiers". But I have never seen any other scholarly
> publication that draws on Omani archival material. 
> 
> The manuscripts kept in the MSS collection of National
> Heritage & Culture are listed and described in
> published sources, but this is hardly the sort of
> material that you are looking for.
> 
> For the UAE: there is the Documentation Centre set up
> in the 1960s under Muhammad Morsy Abdallah. It was
> housed in the old fort for many years untill it was
> taken over by the Cultural Foundation and is now in
> new premises. They mostly collected copies (microfilms
> etc) of material relevant to Oman/UAE kept in archives
> of other countries.
> 
> Joachim Duester
> 
> --- Olga Andriyanova <misr_olga at yahoo.co.uk> wrote:
> 
> > Dear all, 
> > 
> > I'm a student from Russia who is studying actually
> > in Paris. I study the history of Oman and Eastern
> > Arabia in particular the questions of state, power 
> > and society in the second half of the XVIIth - 
> > XIXth centuries. 
> > I would like to make a PhD on the subject. As I'm
> > planning a voyage in Oman, I would like to know the
> > state of the archives in Oman and in the Emirates.
> > What kind of documents can I find there? Is the
> > access to the archives possible? 
> > I know that a collection of manuscripts exists, but
> > is there any correspondance, tax reports and 
> > the like? 
> > 
> > I would be grateful for any information on the
> > sources which one can get during the field work 
> > as well as for any kind of advice.
> > 
> > Best regards, 
> > 
> > Olga Andriyanova.
> 
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