Screen LibraryThe Gulf in world history : Arabia at the global crossroads /
"The Gulf sits at an ancient crossroads of cultures and faiths, and at the heart of modern trade stretching back to the origins of civilization. As a site of both conflict and peaceful encounter, it can be studied in the context of world history, as a place of cultural and historical encounter....
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Edinburgh University Press,
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| Publisher Address: | Edinburgh : |
| Publication Dates: | [2018] |
| Literature type: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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"The Gulf sits at an ancient crossroads of cultures and faiths, and at the heart of modern trade stretching back to the origins of civilization. As a site of both conflict and peaceful encounter, it can be studied in the context of world history, as a place of cultural and historical encounter. From medieval astrology to museum architecture, from the trade of glass and pearls to the role of Indians, Africans, Christian monks, Mandaeans and merchants, this book spans historical periods and disciplinary approaches. It is united by one overarching theme: the Gulf as a cosmopolitan nexus and space of encounter. The chapters describe a Gulf simultaneously perched on the edge of empires and at the centre of world events. Presenting new evidence, new theoretical approaches, and new arguments, this volume aims to change understandings of the Gulf in the world." -- |
| Carrier Form: | xvii, 370 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color), maps ; 25 cm |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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9781474430654 1474430651 |
| Index Number: | DS326 |
| CLC: | K370.0 |
| Call Number: | K370.0/G971 |
| Contents: | Introduction: world history in the Gulf as a gulf in world history / Allen James Fromherz -- The cosmopolitan figure as ethical exemplar: notes from a tenth-century Gulf encyclopedia / Richard McGregor -- The Gulf: a cosmopolitan mobile society--Hormuz, 1475-1515 CE / Valeria Piacentini Fiorani -- From Jerusalem to the Karun: what can Mandaean geographies tell us? / Charles Haberl -- Merchant communities and cross-cultural trade between Gujarat and the Gulf in the late seventeenth and eighteenth centuries / Ghulam A. Nadri -- The Banians of Muscat: a South Asian merchant community in Oman and the Gulf, C. 1500-1700 / Abdulrahman al Salimi -- Khaliji Hindustan: towards a diasporic history of Khalijis in South Asia from the 1780s to the 1960s / Johan Mathew -- Africans and the Gulf: between diaspora and cosmopolitanism / Matthew S. Hopper -- East Africa, the global Gulf and the new thassology of the Indian Ocean / Mark Horton -- Astrology as a node of connectivity between the pre-modern Mediterranean and Gulf / Michael A. Ryan -- Ships of the Gulf: shifting names and networks / Eric Staples -- The role of Indian Ocean trade inland: the Buraimi Oasis / Timothy Power -- Pearl fishing and globalisation: from the neolithic to the twentieth century CE / Robert Carter -- An archaeology of glass and international trade in the Gulf / Carolyn M. Swan -- From history to heritage: the Arabian incense burner / Willilam G. Zimmerle -- Doha's Msheireb heritage house museums: a discussion of memory, history and the Indian Ocean world / Karen Exell -- Omani identity amid the old crisis / Lamya Harub. |