Editing Oman (section)

===Yaruba dynasty (1624–1744)===
{{further|Omani Empire}}
[[File:Areas under Omani influence 18th-19th century.svg|thumb|Following the expulsion of the [[Portuguese Empire]], Oman became one of the powers in the western Indian Ocean from 1698 onwards.<ref name=OQCP>Oman Country Profile. [https://www.qdl.qa/en/country-profile-oman Oman Country Profile.] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190720161203/https://www.qdl.qa/en/country-profile-oman |date=20 July 2019 }} British Library Partnership. Qatar Digital Library. 2014.</ref>]]
The [[Ottoman Empire]] temporarily captured Muscat from the Portuguese again in 1581 and held it until 1588. During the 17th century, the Omanis were reunited by the [[Yaruba dynasty|Yaruba Imams]]. Nasir bin Murshid became the first Yaarubah Imam in 1624, when he was elected in Rustaq.<ref name=ETENT>{{Cite web|url=https://www.qdl.qa/en/archive/81055/vdc_100023697835.0x000039|title='History of the imâms and seyyids of 'Omân by Salîl-ibn-Razîk, from A.D. 661–1856; translated from the original Arabic, and edited with notes, appendices, and an introduction, continuing the history down to 1870, by George Percy Badger, F.R.G.S., late chaplain in the Presidency of Bombay.' [23] (56/612)|date=22 October 2014|website=Qatar Digital Library|access-date=6 September 2019|archive-date=7 July 2022|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220707154525/http://www.qdl.qa/en/archive/81055/vdc_100023697835.0x000039|url-status=live}}</ref> Imam Nasir and his successor succeeded in the 1650s in expelling the Portuguese from their coastal domains in Oman.<ref name=OmanForeignPolicy>Majid Alkhalili. [https://books.google.com/books?id=UAKrCQAAQBAJ&dq=ghaleb+al+hinai&pg=PA23 Majid Alkhalili: ''Oman's Foreign Policy''.] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230413204038/https://books.google.com/books?id=UAKrCQAAQBAJ&dq=ghaleb+al+hinai&pg=PA23 |date=13 April 2023 }} Oman's Foreign Policy: Foundation and Practice. 19 May 2009. Praeger.</ref> The Omanis over time established a maritime empire that pursued the Portuguese and expelled them from all their possessions in East Africa, which were then incorporated into the Omani domains. To capture Zanzibar [[Saif bin Sultan]], the [[Imam]] of Oman, pressed down the [[Swahili Coast]]. A major obstacle to his progress was [[Fort Jesus]], housing the garrison of a Portuguese settlement at [[Mombasa]]. After a two-year siege, the fort fell to Imam Saif bin Sultan in 1698. Saif bin Sultan occupied Bahrain in 1700.  The rivalry within the house of Yaruba over power after the death of Imam Sultan in 1718 weakened the dynasty. With the power of the Yaruba Dynasty dwindling, Imam Saif bin Sultan II eventually asked for help against his rivals from [[Nader Shah]] of Persia. A Persian force arrived in March 1737 to aid Saif. From their base at Julfar, the Persian forces eventually rebelled against the Yaruba in 1743. The Persian empire then tried to take possession of the coast of Oman until 1747.<ref name=OmanForeignPolicy/><ref name=ASOD>Stefan Siebert. [https://books.google.com/books?id=qKAtjJoXXpwC&pg=PA222 The Rough Guide to Oman.] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230211035637/https://books.google.com/books?id=qKAtjJoXXpwC&pg=PA222 |date=11 February 2023 }} The Rough Guide to Oman. 2011.</ref>