The Omani Experience of Multi-religious Coexistence and Dialogue: A Historical Approach to the Omani Principles and its Luminous Examples

In a world that is increasingly hostile towards religious minorities, this paper tries to set a modern-day, successful example of multi-religious coexistence and interfaith dialogue. The paper examines historical examples derived from Omani history and explores Omani characteristics by surveying Western reports written by missionaries, visitors, and travellers of different religions in Oman. This is meant to demonstrate the hypothesis that the multi-religious coexistence and interfaith dialogue enjoyed today by the nearly four-million Omani population is a natural result of a long history of commitment to ‘Omani values’ and principles, practised by Oman’s Ibāḍī population with their fellow nonMuslims. The paper concludes that there is a strong correlation between the ‘Omani values’ recorded by the Western writers and the ongoing deeply rooted Omani experience of peaceful religious coexistence and interfaith dialogue. These ‘Omani values’ include the principles of tolerance, social justice, mutual respect, friendliness, hospitality, and simplicity. Finally, owing to the increasingly rising tensions between adherents of different religions, the paper recommends that such successful Omani experiences should be exported to other countries in the Muslim world and elsewhere.

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Maawali, Al Muatasim. 2021. “The Omani Experience of Multi-Religious Coexistence and Dialogue: A Historical Approach to the Omani Principles and Its Luminous Examples ”. Journal of Islamic Thought and Civilization 11 (1), 59-78. https://doi.org/10.32350/jitc.111.04.

Who are the Ibadites?

“These are a few pages in which I briefly explained the adherence of the Ibadites to the teachings of Islam in politics, belief and dealing, with evidence from the Qur’an, Sunnah and reality to make the reader aware.

I ask Allah that this work will benefit the students of knowledge and may He grant us His support.” By: Nasser Matar Al Masqari

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Poetic Anthology of Ibāḍī Theology. Historical Readings of Ibn al-Naẓar’s al-Daʿāʾim and its Commentaries

This study focuses on the significance of the Dīwān al-Daʿāʾim (Pillars) – an anthology of poetry by Abū Bakr Aḥmad b. Sulaymān b. ʿAbd Allāh b. Aḥmad b. al-Khiḍr b. Sulaymān, known after the name of his clan as Ibn al-Naẓar. The anthology presents poems steeped in Ibāḍī theology and doctrine. However, rather than focusing on those aspects, this study intends to analyse commentaries on the Dīwān from a historical angle so as to obtain a general picture of the ideas supporting it, as well as the questions it has raised at various times over the centuries since it was written. The commentaries on al-Daʿāʾim reveal a centuries-long intellectual interaction between Oman and North Africa (which lasted from the time they first appeared right up to the last century), as well as the close ties which existed between the eastern and western Ibāḍī schools. Al-Daʿāʾim was regarded as a significant work and it – together with its commentaries ‒ is indeed a unique example of Omani scholarship.

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Establish The Prayer

“Probably, many suffer from absent- mindedness while establishing prayer, and probably some of them feel that it’s a burden and that it’s difficult I ask anyone who feels anything of that and truly wishes to change what’s in himself to patiently read through these pages that God assisted me in composing so that I and my brethren and sistren in faith can cooperate in righteousness and piety, in the hope I would earn God’s mercy, forgiveness and reward.

Since God denoted great value to prayer and since it is of great importance in human’s life, you’ll find that the text is addressing you.” By: Khalsa Said Al-Harthy

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