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Rustaq was inhabited by imams from time to time after 1624 AD until the capital was permanently moved to Muscat. After the death of Ahmed ibn Said in 1783, his son Said ibn Ahmed became the new ruler much to his brothers’ contempt. When his brothers Sultan and Qais rose against Said, his own son, Seyyid Hamad, seized the opportunity for power and moved the political capital to Muscat. The Ibadhite movement remained in the interior of Oman in al-Rustaq with the legitimate Imam, Said (74 Ghubash, Hussein. Oman: the Islamic democratic tradition).Inner Oman oasis such as Nizwa and Rustak were fired by Ibadi fanaticism unlike the coast, and exercised the prohibition of Hindus and Christians with great vigor and violence until the current Sultan took over in 1970 (53 Sohar by Fredrik Barth).