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Recent scholarship in American Studies has begun to examine the phenomenon of United States Orientalism, tracing the contours of a peculiarly American engagement with both the material and imaginary East. However, what has yet to be sufficiently examined is the formation of a sp…

At the juncture of Arab and African histories lies the legacy of al-Busa'idi rule in Zanzibar. This dissertation aims at resurrecting aspects of that legacy, as they related to the politics of identity of the Omani elite in a time framework set between 1880s and 1930s. Relying o…