Nabhani dynasty

The Nabhani dynasty, or the Nabhanids, were rulers of Oman from 1154 until 1624, when the Yaruba dynasty took power. One of their most visible legacies is the Bahla Fort, a large complex of mud brick buildings on stone foundations built from the 12th to the 15th century. It was registered in 1987 as a UNESCO World Heritage Site. After the fall of the dynasty in 1624 and the end of the Nabhani monarchy, the family ceased to exist as a state institution. However, collateral branches continued to exercise local power in the interior as tamimahs of the Banu Riyam tribe and princes of Jebel Akhdar, until the Jebel Akhdar War in 1956. A Brazilian branch of the dynasty, founded in the late 19th century by Prince Jahjah Al-Nabhan (Arabic: جهجاه آل نبهان; c. 1851–1909) during the Levantine immigration to Brazil, settled in Mato Grosso do Sul, São Paulo and Paraná, with descendants in cities such as Campo Grande, Ponta Porã and Bela Vista. Under dynastic tradition, princely status does not derive from the exercise of sovereignty over a current state or principality, but from legitimate descent from a formerly sovereign house. Since titles and styles are dynastic attributes that belong to the dynasty itself and not to the state, the members of the house retain their dynastic titles after the deposition of the monarchy. Therefore, according to the internal laws of the house, its members are considered dynastic princes and princesses of the House of Al-Nabhan, although they do not possess succession rights to the throne of the current Sultanate of Oman nor contemporary official recognition of princely titles by the Omani state.