_ 7 _ Introduction to Volume Twelve This volume spans twenty-two years of events from 1571 to 1592. At the beginning of this period, most of the Portuguese officials were urging the Portuguese King to form an alliance with the Persians and wage war against the Ottomans. All the Christian kingdoms' forces were unified against the Ottomans. In the later years, the narrative includes the story of the Portuguese shipwreck, mentioning the Gulf of Masirah, Ras al-Hadd, Sur, Qalhat, and extending to Sohar and then to Ormuz. Dr. Sultan Bin Muhammad Al-Qasimi
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