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Muscat and Oman; Sd Sa’id’s accession and British intervention; Zanzibar; Sd Sa’id and East Africa; The Hirth and the Sharqiya; The Hirth in East Africa; The alienation of the Hirth; The Nahḏa; Sa’id’s move to Zanzibar; Dhofar and Southern Arabia; The Red Sea and the Ottoman threat; The Hadramis in East Africa; Transformations during Sa’id’s time at Zanzibar; The developing economy; The Zanzibar entrepot; Plantation agriculture; Sa’id’s legacy; The Banians; Foreign Relations Britain and France; Ibadism in East Africa; Conversion; The ulema and the Ibadi tradition; Slavery; Ibadism and slavery; Colonial exploitation of the anti-slavery movement