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Ahmad ibn Said al-Busaidi
Ahmad ibn Said al-Busaidi was the founder of the Al Bu Said dynasty of Oman. As governor of Sohar in the 1740s he resisted the Persian forces drawn in by the Ya'aruba civil war, drove them out and was elected imam. His family went on to rule Oman and, until 1964, Zanzibar.
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