[oman-l] Ibri

[Michel Ogilvie]

Joachim Duester wrote:
> 
> Ibri belongs to the Dhahira region and is the the centre of a wilayat
> of the same name. Other important towns in this wilayat are al-Araqi and
> al-Diriz. The "Socio-Economic Atlas" for the Sultanate of Oman published
> in Nov 1996 gives the following population statistics
> total population    22,921 (9460 male, 13461 female)
> thereof Omanis:   16,983 (8500 male, 8483 female)
> non-Omanis:          5,938 (4961 male, 977 female)
> 
> Number of households: 3068
> 
> Ibri has several schools and a Vocational Training Institute.
> It also has a hospital and a health centre, a tourist guest
> house and a fort.
> 
> I am afraid there is nothing spectacular about Ibri. When I
> visited it for the first time in 1981, you could still find many
> camels outside the suq, but when I visited last in 1995, the
> traditional suq was in a bad state of repair and most shops
> had moved to new quarters. The deserted mud settlement
> of al-Sulaif, a few kilometres away from Ibri, is a very interesting
> place and would merit a detailed survey.
> 
> Material on the history of Ibri is found in most books on Oman,
> but there is no "history of Ibri" as such.
> 
> There is at least one Omani student from Ibri on the Internet,
> Saif Hamdan Saif al-Rubaiei, (now studying in Bangalore, India).
> His homepage is at http://members.tripod.com/~SAIFR , his
> e-mail is saifr@mailcity.com.
> 
> Joachim Duester
> Oman Studies Centre
> http://www.oman.org
> omandoc@pobox.com
Thanx a great deal Joachim, you have been a great help!
I'll be visiting your hp soon
salaam
mpo