ABSTRACT
Historically the Julfar region, sometimes called ‘al-Sir’ and generally ‘Sahel Oman’, corresponds to a part lying in the north west of Oman. From the second half of the eighteenth century, it witnessed the emergence of particular ethnic and political formations. Later, when the region had a confrontation with England, she renamed it the ‘Pirate Coast’. But when she had subjugated it by force, and after the tribes had signed the Maritime Truce in 1853, England renamed it the ‘Trucial Coast’. While examining in this chapter how the historical and national identity of the region and its independent political frontiers were formed, we shall try also to throw some light on the distinctive features of the common history of Oman and ‘Sahel Oman’.
