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Malaysian-Omani Historical and Cultural Relationship: In Context of Halwa Maskat and Baju Maskat
Rahmah Ahmad H. Osman1, Md. Salleh Yaapar2, Elmira Akhmatove3, Fauziah Fathil4, Mohamad Firdaus Mansor Majdin5, Nabil Nadri6, Saleh Alzeheimi7.
The current re-emergence of global maritime activity has sparked initiative
from various nations in re-examining their socio-political and cultural position
of the region. Often this self-reflection would involve the digging of the deeper
origin and preceding past of a nation from historical references and various
cultural heritage materials. From this, realisation of the pattern in maintaining
an empire or enterprise from the immediate ancestral society could be turned
into a model or benchmark in developing the present and future planning of the
nation. In the context of Islamic civilisation development along the IndoPacific seaboard the Omani and Malay nations are the two integral entities that had assumed their central role as seafarers, traders, rulers, and travellers in maintaining the dynamics of the region and this happened as early as the
Islamic period of the 9th and 10th century CE up till 16th and 19th century
when series of European colonial infiltration disrupted greatly the balance of
this classical network. The Kitab at-Tarikh Silsilah Negeri Kedah, for instance,
presented a vivid story of an Omani captain and his ship in the early 1700s who
had met Kedahan people. The cultural heritage of the Arabian Gulf brought
mainly by the Omanis could even be found there such as a fabric product
known as Baju Maskat and a kind of delicacy known as Halwa Maskat which
signal that the cultural hegemony of the Omanis indeed exceeded their
immediate political boundary.
Affiliation:
- International Islamic University Malaysia, Malaysia
- Universiti Sains Malaysia (USM), Malaysia
- International Islamic University Malaysia, Malaysia
- International Islamic University Malaysia, Malaysia
- International Islamic University Malaysia, Malaysia
- Universiti Sains Malaysia (USM), Malaysia
- Trans Gulf Information Technology, Oman
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