The Gulf in World History Arabia at the Global Crossroads

by Fromherz, Allen James

• ISBN13: 9781474430661
• ISBN10: 147443066X
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2020-09-01
• Publisher: Edinburgh University Press

Author Biography

Allen Fromherz is Professor of history at Gerogia 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).

Table of Contents

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 Kar?n: What can Mand?an Geographies Tell Us?, Charles H?berl.

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