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Oman Bibliographies - Oman Studies Bibliographic Info

This page provides some general and some specialized bibliographies on Oman. A short introductory bibliography can also be found on our page Basic Reading on Oman. If you wish to buy books on Oman, have a look at our list of Specialized Bookshops.

A. General bibliographies on Oman

Clements, Frank A.: Oman. - Revised edition. - Oxford: Clio Press, 1994. - xxii, 346p. - ISBN 1-85109-197-1
Düster, Joachim; Scholz, Fred: Bibliographie über das Sultanat Oman. - Hamburg: Deutsches Orient-Institut, 1980. - xvii, 141, xix p.. - ISBN 3-88693-003-3
King, Russell.; Stevens, John Harold: A bibliography of Oman 1900-1950. - Durham: University of Durham, Centre for Middle Eastern and Islamic Studies, 1973. - 14p. (Occasional Papers; 2)
Le Cour Grandmaison, Bruno & Colette: Contribution to a general bibliography of Oman. - Muscat: Ministry of National Heritage and Culture, 1980. - 97p.
Shannon, Michael O.: Oman and southeastern Arabia: a bibliographic survey. - Boston, MA: G.K. Hall, 1978. - xvi, 165p. - ISBN 0-8161-8097-0

B. Specialized bibliographies on Oman

Bennett, Normann R.: The Arab state of Zanzibar: a bibliography. - Boston, MA: G.K. Hall, 1984. - xvii, 231p. - ISBN 0-8161-8455-0
Bidwell, Robin L.: Bibliographical notes on European accounts of Muscat, 1500-1900. - in: Arabian Studies. Vol. 4 (1978), pp. 123-159
Fisher, Martin: Indexed bibliography of natural history and conservation in Oman. - Leiden: Backhuys, 1995. - 74pp. - ISBN 90-73348-41-2
Haerinck, E.; Stevens, K.G.: Pre-Islamic archaeology of Kuwait, north-eastern Arabia, Bahrain, Qatar, United Arab Emirates and Oman: a bibliography. - Gent, 1985. - 64p.
Hammad, Alam E.: Agriculture, animal wealth, water resources and fisheries of Oman: a bibliography. - Baltimore, MD: Gateway Press, 1987. - vi, 113p. - ISBN 0-9618652-0-2
Manser, W.; Batchelor, D.A.F.: Earth Sciences data sources, Sultanate of Oman: an annotated bibliography and indices of the geology, geophysics and mineral resources. - Muscat: Ministry of Petroleum and Minerals, 1995. (M.P.M. Geological Documents)
Marshall, Brian: European travellers in Oman and southeast Arabia 1792-1950: a biobibliographical study. - in: New Arabian Studies, Vol. 2. - Exeter: University of Exeter Press, 1994. - ISBN 0-85989-452-5. - pp. 1-57
Weier, Horst: Bibliography of the geological literature of the Sultanate of Oman - Part I: 1824-1985. - in: Zentralblatt für Geologie und Paläontologie. 1986, pp. 779-798

C. Oman Studies Bibliographic Info

The Oman Studies Bibliographic Info (OSBI), ISSN 0723-1741, was published at irregular intervals after 1982 as a supplement to the Düster & Scholz bibliography listed above.

The following issues have been published:

Oman Studies Bibliographic Info, No. 1 (February 1982). - 16p.

..., No. 2 (June 1982). - 20 p.

..., No. 3 ( October 1982). - 18p.

..., No. 4 (February 1983). - 14p.

..., No. 5 (June 1983). - 16p.

..., No. 6 (May 1988). - Special issue on Geology. - 19p.

..., No. 7 (November 1989). - Special issue on zoology, botany, etc. - 10p.

..., No. 8 (October 1990). - Special issue on articles in journals. - 20p.

..., No. 9 (September 1991). - 62p.

revised 30 August 1997