Omani Empire

Marriage that never was…‘Baysar’ is not a clear status but suggests an Omani Arab descendedfrom slave status – or at least not of ‘pure blood’; in Oman occupiedsomewhat inferior position in society“This failed attempt at marriage between two people of Omani descentin the town of Tabora, several hundred miles from Zanzibar andseveral thousand miles from Oman, hinged on notions of statusimported from Oman.Omani migrants were one of the groups that traveled to the interior ofEast Africa, but these migrants and itinerants identified subgroupsamong themselves, casting doubt on the idea of a single Arabidentity in East Africa. “