The Gulf in World History: Arabian, Persian and Global Connections

ISBN-13: 9781474430661 / Angielski / Miękka / 2020 / 392 str.

Allen James Fromherz

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.