4to. 539 pp., Arabic text, numerous facsimile documents illustrated, hard back binding, copy in mint condition, al-Qasimi Publication, Sharjah, 2012.

Synopsis

The Correspondence of the Sultans of Zanzibar.
This book contains the letters exchanged between Sultan Saeed bin Sultan, Imam of Oman (Muscat and Zanzibar), with the British government on Zanzibar, as well as incoming and outgoing letters to the sultans: Majid bin Saeed bin Sultan (Sultan of Zanzibar), and Barghash bin Saeed bin Sultan (Sultan of Zanzibar), Khalifa bin Saeed bin Sultan (Sultan of Zanzibar), the African section of the Omani Empire, which Britain worked to separate from its rulers in Oman, as I explained in my book (The Division of the Omani Empire).
There are 234 documents, which have been collected from the British Library, and they are in the form of incoming and outgoing letters to the Sultans of Zanzibar arranged in four groups, as follows:
The first group: the incoming and outgoing letters of Sultan Saeed bin Sultan Al Busaid (ruled from 1806 AD to 1856 AD), and their number is (99).
The second group: the incoming and outgoing letters of Sultan Majid bin Said Al Busaid (ruled from 1856 AD to 1870 AD), and the number is (35) letters.
The third group: Incoming and outgoing letters of Sultan Barghash bin Said Al Busaid (ruled from 1870 AD to 1888 AD), and the number is (32) letters.
Fourth group: Incoming and outgoing letters of Sultan Khalifa bin Saeed Al Busaid (ruled from 1888 AD to 1890 AD), and their number is (68) letters.