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Psychiatry in the Sultanate of Oman

Part of: BJPsych International Country Profiles Collection

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2018

Hamed Al-Sinawi  and
Samir Al-Adawi
Hamed Al-Sinawi
Affiliation:
Department of Behavioural Medicine, Sultan Qaboos University Hospital, Muscat, Oman, email senawi@squ.edu.om
Samir Al-Adawi
Affiliation:
Department of Behavioural Medicine, College of Medicine and Health Sciences, Sultan Qaboos University, Muscat, Oman, email adawi@squ.edu.om
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The Sultanate of Oman is located in the south-east of the Arabian Peninsula. It has a distinctive history and subcultures. Its seafaring tradition has endowed the country with various ethnic and linguistic groups, with Arabic being a dominant language and Ibadhi being the dominant sect of Islam (Al-Nami, 1971). Oman in the 1970s saw rapid development, triggered by the discovery of oil, which took place under enlightened new political leadership.

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International Psychiatry , Volume 3 , Issue 4 , October 2006 , pp. 14 - 16
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