Talk:Kashf al-Ghumma

Kashf al-Ghumma disambiguation

The Kashf al-ghumma (Arab. 'Redeemer of Calamity') is a collection of texts compiled by an Ibadhi scholar in the 18th century CE. Among other things, it briefly mentions semi-mythically the origin of tribal Oman. This recounts a battle in which Malik b. Fahm and the al Azd defeat Persians in Oman. These tribesmen also make early appearances in the Arabic genealogies. Two groups of the al Azd are identified here, the Azd Oman and the Azd Sarāt. The former go back to Mālik b. Fahm, the Shanūʾa al Azd came later. Wilkinson explains that their immigration to central Oman ceased during the First Imamate.

bibliography: ROSS, E. C. 1874. Annals of ʿOmán, from early times to the year 1728 A.D. from an Arabic MS by Sheykh Sirhāʾn b. Saʿīʾd bin Sirhāʾn bin Muḥammad, of the Benú Alí Tribe of ʿOmán, translated and annotated, Journal Asiatic Society of Bengal 43.1, 111‒96.

al Sālimī, Muḥammad b. Abdullāh b. Ḥumayd 1961 Nahḍat al aʿyān bi ḥurriyat ʿUmān, Kairo 1380

al ʿAwtabi (Sal(a)ma b. Muslim (Musallim?) Kitāb Ansāb al ʿArab. Bibliotheque Nationale, MSS. Arabes 5019, Paris

Wilkinson, J. C. 1977 Water and Tribal Settlement in South-East Arabia – A Study of the Aflaj of Oman, Oxford Azd0815 (talk) 11:30, 6 July 2023 (UTC)