The Gulf in world history : Arabia at the global crossroads /
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Edinburgh :
Edinburgh University Press,
[2018]
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Table of 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.