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Homage to Oman Volume 50 Number 3, May/June 1997
This contemporary onion-dome mosque was built over the tomb of Bin Ali, an eleventh-century Indian sailor who settled the area and rose to political prominence. The mosque and modern cemetery are in southern Oman outside the coastal town of Marbat. (Photograph by Nicolas Sapieha)

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