The Gulf in world history : : Arabia at the global crossroads / / 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.
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| 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). |
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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