Ebook: Oman Under Qaboos: From Coup to Constitution, 1970-1996.
Author: W. Lynn Rigsbee II, Calvin H. Allen
- Tags: Qabus bin Said -- Sultan of Oman -- 1940-2020, Oman -- History, HISTORY -- Middle East -- General, Qabus bin Said -- Sultan of Oman -- 1940-, Oman
- Year: 2014
- Publisher: Taylor and Francis
- City: Hoboken, Oman, Oman.
- Language: English
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This is an examination of the political, economic and social development of Oman from the accession Sultan Qaboos in a palace coup in 1970 to the promulation of the basic law of 1996. The book argues that the sultanate does not follow the ""rentier"" model but the patriarchal tradition.