{"id":1014,"date":"2024-04-08T13:01:59","date_gmt":"2024-04-08T13:01:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepearlofarabia.com\/discover-the-wonderful-diversity-of-oman\/10-curiosities-of-oman\/"},"modified":"2024-08-22T10:26:40","modified_gmt":"2024-08-22T10:26:40","slug":"10-curiosities-of-oman","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/thepearlofarabia.com\/en\/discover-the-wonderful-diversity-of-oman\/10-curiosities-of-oman\/","title":{"rendered":"10 interesting facts about Oman"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>It is the only country in the world whose name begins with the letter &#8220;O&#8221;.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Oman was founded as an Imamate in 751, making it the oldest state in the Arab world.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Incense<strong> <\/strong>have even been immortalized in sculpture across the capital and are an integral part of Omani tradition. Produced in Oman<strong> <\/strong>and it is an aromatic resin used in medicine and<strong> <\/strong>religion<strong>.<\/strong><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>  Oman is the cradle of Ibadism, the third way of Islam, a distinct school of Islamic thought, neither Sunni nor Shiite, which emerged at the beginning of the Islamic world and is still present today in small groups in Africa and especially in Oman. Ibadism calmly evinces its tolerant side, consistent with the centuries-old Islamic tradition of cooperation with all peoples.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Almost 80% of Oman&#8217;s territory is desert and is still inhabited by small Bedouin communities that maintain their traditional lifestyle and customs in places such as the Wahiba Sands desert. In addition, Oman is home to the Rub al-Khali desert, one of the largest deserts in the world and known for having some of the highest sand dunes.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Among the dry sands, Oman surprises us with its many Wadis, in a country where rainfall is not abundant, we are surprised by the number of rivers and springs that we find.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>In the city of Nizwa, one of the oldest livestock markets in the world is held. Every Friday, merchants gather to buy and sell goats, sheep and camels, creating an atmosphere full of tradition and culture.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>The luxury perfume was founded in 1983 at the request of Sultan Qaboos bin Said, Oman&#8217;s head of state, as a way to both preserve the sultanate&#8217;s perfume-making traditions and provide gifts for visiting world leaders.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Oman was the first Gulf country to give women the right to vote and stand for election.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Sultan Qaboos bin Said Al Said<strong>, <\/strong>who ruled Oman from 1970 until his death in 2020, is widely regarded as one of the most influential and progressive leaders in the Arab world.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":753,"parent":996,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-1014","page","type-page","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepearlofarabia.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1014","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepearlofarabia.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepearlofarabia.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepearlofarabia.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepearlofarabia.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1014"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/thepearlofarabia.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1014\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1017,"href":"https:\/\/thepearlofarabia.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1014\/revisions\/1017"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepearlofarabia.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/996"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepearlofarabia.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/753"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepearlofarabia.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1014"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}