ABSTRACT
In addition to its home country Oman, the Omani elite in Zanzibar maintained ties with the Ibadi community in Mzab, and more specifically with the renowned scholar of Mzab, Muh.ammad At.fiyyash. The Ibadi communities in North Africa, of Berber origin and scattered in the Mzab valley in Algeria, Djerba Island in Tunisia, and the Nafusa Mountains in Libya, had always enjoyed special relations withOman.WithOmani expansion into East Africa, that special bond was extended to Zanzibar.
