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ABSTRACT

Until very recently we Knew few dources on the history of Oman. The imprtant muslim historians، such as Tabari، Yaqubl and Ibn al-Athir، do not give details on the ploitical or social events which Occurd in Oman during the Umayyad or the Abbasid Caliphates.

We were، however، able to discover now material Concerning the history of Oman in various manuscripts from different libr aries. We shall endeavour، in this work، to extract from these indigenous، confused and illsorted sources the most noto- worthy events in the history of the Ibadites of Oman to insert them into historical Iacts of greaterinucrtance، a thing that modern sholars have have not done yet as for as our period is concerned.

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The Ibadiypa da' wa started in Basra، thecentre of Kharijite movements in the second half of first century of Hijra. The first pioneers who established this moderate line (Ibadiyya) we- re Jabir b. Zayd al- Azdi (d. 93 A.A/711 AD.) and Abdallah b. Ibar (died in the reign of Abd al-Malik b. Marwan)، The sect Ibadiyyah wos named after Ibn Ibad. Those Leaders and thr close onociates worked secretly bud activley to spread the relig- laus as weel ad the peliticel doctricnes of their da wa، and were able to succeed in Oman، hadramout and Yemen also، found ogr eat sesponse in al Maghrib. This period witnessed the estabila- hment of two short lived Imamites، the first in Yemen (129 - 132 A.H.) and the seoind in Oman (132 - 134 A.H.).

However، the du at saccuded in founding the second Ibadite