The Medieval Persian Gulf / / Brian Ulrich.
The Persian Gulf today is home to multiple cosmopolitan urban hubs of globalization. This did not start with the discovery of oil. This book tells of the Gulf from the rise of Islam until the coming of the Portuguese, when port cities such as Siraf, Sohar, and Hormuz were entrepots for trading pearl...
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| Place / Publishing House: | Leeds : : ARC Humanities Press, , [2023] 2023 |
| Year of Publication: | 2023 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Past Imperfect
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (124 p.) |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of Illustrations
- The Persian Gulf, showing major places mentioned in the text. Map by Jacob Hockenberry. Used with permission
- Timeline
- Introduction
- Chapter 1. Religious Diversity of the Early Islamic Era
- Chapter 2. Ethnic Diversity
- Chapter 3. The Society of Trade in the Early Islamic Period
- Chapter 4. New Trade Centres after 1000
- Chapter 5. Islamic Sects in the Late Medieval Gulf
- Chapter 6. Hormuz
- Conclusion
- Further Reading