The date oases along the southern foot of the Hajar mountains, irrigated by channels (aflaj), between the Persia map's frame at about 22.8 N and the Wahiba sands: Sinaw, al-Mudaybi, Ibra, al-Qabil, Bidiya and the springs of Wadi Bani Khalid.
Their people are Arab tribes of the Omani interior, Ibadi by al-Idrisi's general rule for Oman. Adam, the oasis at the southern gate of the Nizwa and Bahla country, is left to the Nabhanid kings' block as the nearest power.
Who holds it
- Name
- Not known for 1199-1200
- Title
- Oasis and tribal shaykhs
- Since
- Not known
- Confidence
- low
Overlord
Not attested. The Nabhanid kings at Bahla (Persia map) are the nearest power and may claim these oases; their reach here is not recorded.
What it holds
- The oases and their channels
- The road from the interior to Sur and Ja'lan
Allies and rivals
Not recorded.
How things stand that morning
Self-governing as far as the sources show.
Threats
- The Nabhanid kings
- Bedouin raids from the sands
Where the sources disagree
- Omani history between the Nabhanid seizure of power (1154) and the fifteenth century survives only in thin, contradictory chronicles; no source we could check names a lord, governor or chief anywhere in southern Oman for 1199-1200. Following the regional brief, the realm id oman (the Nabhanid kings of Bahla, Persia map record Oman) is used only at the edge of their core (Adam, by anchor); everything else is given to its own tribes.
Evidence: No source of the period names a lord or tribe here.
On the map: The northern edge is the Persia map's frame, not a border of 1200.
Primary sources for The Bedouin
Chronicles, registers, sagas and inscriptions written in or near 1200 that cover this entry. Each has its own page with editions, translations and where to read it.
- History of the Observant Traveller (A Traveller in Thirteenth-Century Arabia), Ibn al-Mujawir (Jamal al-Din Yusuf ibn Ya'qub) (about 1226 to 1232). A merchant-traveller's description of western and southern Arabia a generation after 1200: Mecca and the Hijaz ports, the Red Sea crossing, Zabid and the Tihama, Aden with its customs and tariffs, the Hadramawt coast, Dhofar and Oman, Socotra, and the opposite African shore at Zeila and the Dahlak islands. Read online
Sources and studies
- al-Idrisi, Nuzhat al-mushtaq (1154), second clime, sixth section (Arabic Wikisource): al-Shihr and the Mahra, Hadramawt, Sur and Qalhat
- Persia map research file far.json (records far-oman, far-qalhat, far-bahla), after 'Nabhani dynasty', English Wikipedia (after al-Salimi)
Last revised 4 November 2026. Published 4 November 2026. Suggest a correction on the OMNIA Discord.