Muscat - Then and Now: Geographical Sketch of a Unique Arab Town

By Fred Scholz

The town of Muscat on the south-eastern edge of the Arabian Peninsula has a long and chequered history. Omani tradition as well as external influences have given it a particular and pleasing character. A new page was turned in the 1970s, when the reign of Sultan Qaboos bin Said Al Said started, beginning a new era for Oman. A particularly striking expression of this new era was the evolution of Muscat from a small coastal town to an architecturally and structurally modern metropolitan area. This book provides a history of Muscat's progression through the ages, but it is primarily about the impressive expansion and construction which began in the 1970s and remade Muscat into a city that has preserved and developed an admirable uniqueness, despite all its modernity, and unlike its northern cousins such as Dubai, Abu Dhabi, and Doha.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 3899304241
• ISBN13: 9783899304244
• Release Date: October 2014
• Publisher: Schiler & Mucke Gbr Verlag
• Length: 602 Pages