The Gulf in World History: Arabia at the Global Crossroads

ISBN-13: 9781474430654 / Angielski / Twarda / 2018 / 392 str.

Allen James Fromherz

Opis

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

Spis treści

Map of the Gulf; Acknowledgements; Author Biographies; Chapter 1: World History in the Gulf as a Gulf in World History, Allen Fromherz; Part 1: Gulf Cosmopolitanism; Chapter 2: The Cosmopolitan Figure as Ethical Exemplar: Notes from a Tenth-Century Gulf Encyclopedia, Richard McGregor; Chapter 3: The Gulf - A Cosmopolitan Mobile Society: Hormuz 1475-1515 CE, Valeria Piacentini Fiorani; Chapter 4: From Jerusalem to the Karûn: What can Mandæan Geographies Tell Us?, Charles Häberl; Part II: The Gulf and the Indian Ocean; Chapter 5: Merchant Communities and Cross-Cultural Trade between Gujarat and the Gulf: Late Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries, Ghulam A. Nadri; Chapter 6: Banians of Muscat: A South Asian Merchant Community in Oman and the Gulf, c. 1500-1700, Abdulrahman al Salimi; Chapter 7: Khaliji Hindustan: Towards a Diasporic History of Khalijis in South Asia 1780’s-1960’s, Johan Mathew; Part III - East Africa in the Khalij and the Khalij in East Africa; Chapter 8: Africans and the Gulf: Between Diaspora and Cosmopolitanism, Matthew S. Hopper; Chapter 9: East Africa, the Global Gulf and the New Thalassology, Mark Horton; Part IV: Diversity and Change: Sky, Sea and Land; Chapter 10: Astrology as a Node of Connectivity between the Premodern Mediterranean and Gulf, Michael A. Ryan; Chapter 11: Ships of the Gulf - Shifting Names and Networks, Eric Staples; Chapter 12: The Role of Indian Ocean Trade Inland: The Buraimi Oasis, Timothy Power; Part V: Recent Gulf Archaeology; Chapter 13: Pearl Fishing and Globalization: From the Neolithic to the 20th Century CE, Robert Carter; Chapter 14: An Archaeology of Glass and International Trade in the Gulf, Carolyn M. Swan; Part VI: Heritage and Memory in the Gulf; Chapter 15: From History to Heritage: The Arabian Incense Burner, William G. Zimmerle; Chapter 16: Doha’s Msheireb Heritage House Museums: A Discussion of Memory, History and the Heritage of the Indian Ocean World, Karen Exell; Chapter 17: Omani Identity Amid the Oil Crisis, Lamya Harub.