The Gulf in world history : : Arabia at the global crossroads / / edited by Allen James Fromherz.

• TeilnehmendeR: Fromherz, Allen James,
• Place / Publishing House: Edinburgh : : Edinburgh University Press,, 2018.
• Year of Publication: 2018
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (xvii, 370 pages) :; digital, PDF file(s).
• Notes: Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 27 Apr 2021).
• Other title: Frontmatter --; CONTENTS --; List of Illustrations --; Map of the Gulf --; Acknowledgements --; List of Contributors --; 1 Introduction: World History in the Gulf as a Gulf in World History --; Part I Gulf Cosmopolitanism --; 2 The Cosmopolitan Figure as Ethical Exemplar: Notes from a Tenth-century Gulf Encyclopedia --; 3 The Gulf: A Cosmopolitan Mobile Society – Hormuz, 1475–1515 CE --; 4 From Jerusalem to the Karûn: What can Mandæan Geographies Tell Us? --; Part II The Gulf and the Indian Ocean --; 5 Merchant Communities and Cross-cultural Trade between Gujarat and the Gulf in the Late Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries --; 6 The Banians of Muscat: A South Asian Merchant Community in Oman and the Gulf, c. 1500–1700 --; 7 Khaliji Hindustan: Towards a Diasporic History of Khalijis in South Asia from the 1780s to the 1960s --; Part III East Africans in the Khalij and the Khalij in East Africa --; 8 Africans and the Gulf: Between Diaspora and Cosmopolitanism --; 9 East Africa, the Global Gulf and the New Thalassology of the Indian Ocean --; Part IV Diversity and Change: Between Sky, Land and Sea --; 10 Astrology as a Node of Connectivity between the Pre-modern Mediterranean and Gulf --; 11 Ships of the Gulf: Shifting Names and Networks --; 12 The Role of Indian Ocean Trade Inland: The Buraimi Oasis --; Part V Recent Gulf Archaeology --; 13 Pearl Fishing and Globalisation: From the Neolithic to the Twentieth Century CE --; 14 An Archaeology of Glass and International Trade in the Gulf --; Part VI Heritage and Memory in the Gulf --; 15 From History to Heritage: The Arabian Incense Burner --; 16 Doha’s Msheireb Heritage House Museums: A Discussion of Memory, History and the Indian Ocean World --; 17 Omani Identity amid the Oil Crisis --; Index
• Bibliography: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• ISBN: 1474430678; 1474430686
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: edited by Allen James Fromherz.

Presenting new evidence, new theoretical approaches, and new arguments, this volume aims to change understandings of the Gulf in the world.