UNESCO honour for Jibreen Fort and poet bin Raziq

Employees Reporter

Muscat, Nov 9

The Sultanate of Oman succeeded in together with two new cultural parts within the UNESCO programme to have fun necessary historic occasions and globally influential figures.

UNESCO added the 350th anniversary of the institution of Jibreen Fort, and the a hundred and fiftieth anniversary of the demise of the historian and poet Humaid bin Muhammad bin Raziq. This got here in the course of the participation of the delegation of the Sultanate of Oman within the forty second session of the Basic Convention of the United Nations Instructional, Scientific and Cultural Group (UNESCO), which is being held in Paris.

UNESCO included Jibreen Fort on this programme as one of many necessary historic occasions, on the event of the 350th anniversary of its institution in the course of the reign of Imam Belarab bin Sultan al Yarubi. The fort was accomplished in 1675. This fort is taken into account one of the crucial necessary Omani architectural masterpieces of the seventeenth century.

Probably the most expert craftsmen and designers participated in its development, and it was used as a rural residence for the Imam and the seat of his rule. At the moment, Jibreen Fort turned a scientific centre with professors and students who had been supported and promoted by the Imam himself who inspired college students to be taught varied sciences and specialisations, corresponding to: jurisprudence, regulation, literature, historical past, astronomy, arithmetic, medication and chemistry. The fort was a singular scientific college visited by many students as college professors who stayed there to show. It’s noteworthy that the variety of students and writers who graduated from this scientific centre in the course of the period of Imam Belarab bin Sultan exceeded 40 students.

Historian and poet Humaid bin Muhammad bin Raziq is taken into account one of the crucial necessary Omani historians within the nineteenth century. He labored on documenting the historic section extending from the institution of the Al Busaid dynasty till the top of the reign of Sayyid Stated bin Sultan in 1856. He additionally documented the exercise of the European powers within the Indian Ocean and the Arab area. His books are a dependable reference for researchers of Oman. His works had been reviewed by a lot of specialists from inside and out of doors Oman. His type was characterised by being impartial in writing occasions, and analyzing the narratives that described occasions that preceded his time. He was additionally open to the information of others, non-Omanis and appeared on the collections of main Arabic poets corresponding to Ibn Tammam, Al Mutanabbi and Ibn Hani Al Andalusi.

With the inclusion of those two, the variety of cultural parts that Oman included on this worldwide programme has change into eight. Earlier six Omani figures had been added within the UNESCO programme and they’re the linguist Al Khalil bin Ahmed al Farahidi in 2005; and doctor and pharmacist Rashid bin Omairah al Hashimi al Rustaqi in 2013, and the polymath and social reformer Shaikh Nour Al Din Abdullah bin Humaid al Salmi in 2015; the doctor and physicist Abu Muhammad Abdullah bin Muhammad al Azdi, nicknamed Ibn al Dhahabi, the poet Nasser bin Salem al Rawahi, nicknamed Abu Muslim al Bahlani in 2019 and the navigator Ahmed bin Majid al Saadi in 2021.

Oman’s Nationwide Fee for Schooling, Tradition and Science designated February 10 to have fun the reminiscence of worldwide influential Omani figures who’re included within the UNESCO listing of necessary historic occasions and globally influential figures. It additionally marks the accession of the Sultanate of Oman to UNESCO on February 10, 1972. The celebration of this present day goals to introduce influential Omani figures on the native and world ranges, and to make clear their scientific legacy.