In the mid-19th century, the British Lieutenant
James Raymond Wellsted documented the Jews of
Muscat in his memoirs
Travels in Arabia, vol. 1. He mentions that there are
"a few Jews in Muskat (sic), who mostly arrived there in 1828, being driven from Baghdad...by the cruelties and extortions of the Pacha Daud." He also notes that Jews were not discriminated against at all in Oman, which was not the case in other Arab countries (they did not have to live in Ghettos, nor identify themselves as Jews, not walk in the road if a
Muslim was walking on the same street, as was the case in Yemen). The Jews of Muscat were employed mostly in the making of silver ornaments, banking, and liquor sale. Despite the lack of persecution in Oman, the community is believed to have disappeared before 1900. During World War II, a
Jewish American Army enlisted man, Emanuel Glick, encountered a small community of Omani Jews in Muscat, but this community consisted mostly of recent migrants from
Yemen. In 1831,
Edwin Stocqueler travelled to Muscat and
took up quarters at the house of Reuben Aslan, a Jew agent for the Bombay government (
Fifteen Months Pilgrimage, vol. 1, p.3). In the same passage, Stocqueler praised the Imam of Muscat for his tolerance of the religions of other nations. ==Modern politics==