Possible Clues:

• Middle Easterner
• Middle Eastern merit award given to a province
• One from Muscat? Old chap, upright character
• Certain Mideast native
• Sultan's subject, maybe
• Qabus bin Said, e.g.
• Sultan Qabus bin Said, e.g.
• Briefly fail to rein in an Arab
• Ring husband, one coming from the Middle East
• Man of Muscat