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).

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

Table of Contents

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