Gulf in World History (eBook, ePUB)

Arabian, Persian and Global Connections
Redaktion: Fromherz, Allen James

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

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.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Edinburgh University Press
• Erscheinungstermin: 31. August 2018
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781474430685
• Artikelnr.: 54254598

Autorenporträt

Allen Fromherz is Professor of history at Georgia State Univeristy and director of the Middle East Studies Center. He graduated Summa Cum Laude from Dartmouth College in 2002 and received his PhD from St. Andrews University in Scotland in Medieval Islamic History in 2006. Dr. Fromherz has held several international fellowships including Fulbright, Gerda Henkel Stiftung, the Sultan Qaboos Cultural Center. He was a senior fellow in the humanities at NYU Abu Dhabi (2016). He has lived in various parts of the Gulf, including Oman, United Arab Emirates and Qatar. He is President of the American Institute for Maghrib Studies (AIMS). His publications include: Ibn Khaldun (EUP, 2010); The Almohads (IB Tauris, 2012); Qatar (Georgetown Univeristy Press, 2016) and; The Near West (Edinburgh, 2016).

Inhaltsangabe

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.