The Gulf in world history : Arabia at the global crossroads / edited by Allen James Fromherz.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Online resource; title from PDF title page (EBSCO, viewed September 05, 2018).

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

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.

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