The kingdom of Muscat and Oman had been a British Protectorate since 1891 and by the 1950s was ruled by Sultan Said bin Taimur, who by the late 1950s was facing serious opposition and uprisings from the imam of Oman.
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When Said bin Taimur became ruler of Muscat and Oman, the defence of the region was guaranteed by treaties with Baluchistan in Pakistan ( due to a historical quirk by which the Sultan also owned the port of Gwadar ).
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From 1836 until 1861, parts of Jubaland were nominally claimed by the Sultanate of Muscat ( now in Oman ), when the new Sultanate of Zanzibar was split from Muscat and Oman and given control of its East African territories.
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To prevent the Imam interfering with the settlement over Buraimi, a battalion-sized task force, the " Muscat and Oman Field Force ", to which some British officers were attached, was raised, and occupied the town of Ibri.
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Said bin Sultan, Ruler of Muscat and Oman selected his new Bombay-built ship, " al-Sultanah ", to carry out the voyage and settled on his confidential private secretary, Ahmad bin Na'aman, as his emissary.
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"' Sultan Said bin Taimur "'( 13 August 1910 19 October 1972 ) ( ), ( ) was the sultan of Muscat and Oman ( the country later renamed to Oman ) from 10 February 1932 until his overthrow on 23 July 1970.
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The death of Sa'id bin Sultan in 1856 prompted a further division : the descendants of the late sultan ruled Muscat and Oman ( Mayid ibn Said Al-Busaid, r . 1856 1870 ); the Qais branch intermittently allied itself with the ulama to restore imamate legitimacy.
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Duncan left Sudan when it became an independent state in 1956, and joined the Foreign Office, serving as Political Agent in Doha, as director of the then British Information Service in New York City, as Consul-General for the Sultanate of Muscat and Oman and as Minister in the British High Commission at Canberra.
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Relationships between Muscat and Oman were relatively peaceful until 1954 when, following the occupation of the Buraimi oasis in 1952 by Saudi Arabia and the death of Imam Muhammad bin Abdullah al-Khalili, Saudi Arabia supported the new Imam a rebellion in Jebel Akhdar under the leadership of Sheikh Suleiman bin Himyar al-Nabhani to spread.
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The Governor-General of British India, Lord Canning ruled in his arbitration that the empire was to be divided into two separate sultanates : The Sultanate of Zanzibar with its dependencies to Majid bin Said, Said's former Governor of the East African dominions, and the Sultanate of Muscat and Oman to Thuwaini bin Said.
