Oman celebrates annual day of globally influential Omani figures

Muscat: The Sultanate of Oman is celebrating the annual day of globally influential Omani figures listed by the UNESCO, which falls on February 10 of each year. The celebration of this day aims to introduce influential Omani figures at the local and global levels, shed light on their cognitive and scientific legacy, and the first important Omani historical event included in this program, is the 350th anniversary of the establishment of Jibreen Fort.

The Sultanate of Oman has succeeded in including seven Omani figures and one historical event in the UNESCO Program for Important Historical Events and Globally Influential Personalities, namely: the linguist Al Khalil bin Ahmed Al Farahidi in 2005, and the doctor and pharmacist Rashid bin Omairah Al Hashimi Al Rustaqi in 2013, and in 2015 the polymath and reformer was included.

The socialite Sheikh Nour Al Din Abdullah bin Humaid Al Salmi and the doctor and physicist Abu Muhammad Abdullah bin Muhammad Al Azdi, nicknamed Ibn Al Dhahabi, then included the Omani poet Nasser bin Salem Al Rawahi, nicknamed Abu Muslim Al Bahlani in 2019, and the Omani navigator Ahmed bin Majid Al Saadi in 2021.

In the meetings of the Administrative and Financial Affairs Committee emanating from the work of the forty-second session of the General Conference of UNESCO, which was held in November of last year, the Sultanate of Oman was able to include two new cultural elements in this program, namely: the 350th anniversary of the establishment of Jibreen Fort, and the 150th anniversary on the death of the historian and literary poet Hamid bin Muhammad bin Raziq.