Al-Kāmil

Al-Kamil lies in eastern Oman between the sands to the west and mountains to the north and east. Its palm gardens are watered by the falaj of Al-Kamil, a long irrigation channel supplied from Wadi al-Batha. Above the old market and gardens stands the four-storeyed fort of Al-Kamil, through which the channel passes. Sheikh Khalfan bin Halis al-Hashimi built the fort in the last quarter of the seventeenth century; his descendant Hamud altered it substantially in the middle of the eighteenth century as a stronghold for himself and his community.