The Gulf in world history : Arabia at the global crossroads / / edited by Allen James Fromherz [[electronic resource]] |
Autore | Fromherz Allen James |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Edinburgh : , : Edinburgh University Press, , 2018 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (xvii, 370 pages) : digital, PDF file(s) |
Disciplina | 953 |
Soggetto topico | HISTORY / Middle East / General |
ISBN |
1-4744-3067-8
1-4744-3068-6 |
Classificazione | NK 4100 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- List of Illustrations -- Map of the Gulf -- Acknowledgements -- List of Contributors -- 1 Introduction: World History in the Gulf as a Gulf in World History -- Part I Gulf Cosmopolitanism -- 2 The Cosmopolitan Figure as Ethical Exemplar: Notes from a Tenth-century Gulf Encyclopedia -- 3 The Gulf: A Cosmopolitan Mobile Society – Hormuz, 1475–1515 CE -- 4 From Jerusalem to the Karûn: What can Mandæan Geographies Tell Us? -- Part II The Gulf and the Indian Ocean -- 5 Merchant Communities and Cross-cultural Trade between Gujarat and the Gulf in the Late Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries -- 6 The Banians of Muscat: A South Asian Merchant Community in Oman and the Gulf, c. 1500–1700 -- 7 Khaliji Hindustan: Towards a Diasporic History of Khalijis in South Asia from the 1780s to the 1960s -- Part III East Africans in the Khalij and the Khalij in East Africa -- 8 Africans and the Gulf: Between Diaspora and Cosmopolitanism -- 9 East Africa, the Global Gulf and the New Thalassology of the Indian Ocean -- Part IV Diversity and Change: Between Sky, Land and Sea -- 10 Astrology as a Node of Connectivity between the Pre-modern Mediterranean and Gulf -- 11 Ships of the Gulf: Shifting Names and Networks -- 12 The Role of Indian Ocean Trade Inland: The Buraimi Oasis -- Part V Recent Gulf Archaeology -- 13 Pearl Fishing and Globalisation: From the Neolithic to the Twentieth Century CE -- 14 An Archaeology of Glass and International Trade in the Gulf -- Part VI Heritage and Memory in the Gulf -- 15 From History to Heritage: The Arabian Incense Burner -- 16 Doha’s Msheireb Heritage House Museums: A Discussion of Memory, History and the Indian Ocean World -- 17 Omani Identity amid the Oil Crisis -- Index |
Record Nr. | UNISA-996552368403316 |
Fromherz Allen James | ||
Edinburgh : , : Edinburgh University Press, , 2018 | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
Lo trovi qui: Univ. di Salerno | ||
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The Gulf in world history : Arabia at the global crossroads / / edited by Allen James Fromherz [[electronic resource]] |
Autore | Fromherz Allen James |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Edinburgh : , : Edinburgh University Press, , 2018 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (xvii, 370 pages) : digital, PDF file(s) |
Disciplina | 953 |
Soggetto topico | HISTORY / Middle East / General |
ISBN |
1-4744-3067-8
1-4744-3068-6 |
Classificazione | NK 4100 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- List of Illustrations -- Map of the Gulf -- Acknowledgements -- List of Contributors -- 1 Introduction: World History in the Gulf as a Gulf in World History -- Part I Gulf Cosmopolitanism -- 2 The Cosmopolitan Figure as Ethical Exemplar: Notes from a Tenth-century Gulf Encyclopedia -- 3 The Gulf: A Cosmopolitan Mobile Society – Hormuz, 1475–1515 CE -- 4 From Jerusalem to the Karûn: What can Mandæan Geographies Tell Us? -- Part II The Gulf and the Indian Ocean -- 5 Merchant Communities and Cross-cultural Trade between Gujarat and the Gulf in the Late Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries -- 6 The Banians of Muscat: A South Asian Merchant Community in Oman and the Gulf, c. 1500–1700 -- 7 Khaliji Hindustan: Towards a Diasporic History of Khalijis in South Asia from the 1780s to the 1960s -- Part III East Africans in the Khalij and the Khalij in East Africa -- 8 Africans and the Gulf: Between Diaspora and Cosmopolitanism -- 9 East Africa, the Global Gulf and the New Thalassology of the Indian Ocean -- Part IV Diversity and Change: Between Sky, Land and Sea -- 10 Astrology as a Node of Connectivity between the Pre-modern Mediterranean and Gulf -- 11 Ships of the Gulf: Shifting Names and Networks -- 12 The Role of Indian Ocean Trade Inland: The Buraimi Oasis -- Part V Recent Gulf Archaeology -- 13 Pearl Fishing and Globalisation: From the Neolithic to the Twentieth Century CE -- 14 An Archaeology of Glass and International Trade in the Gulf -- Part VI Heritage and Memory in the Gulf -- 15 From History to Heritage: The Arabian Incense Burner -- 16 Doha’s Msheireb Heritage House Museums: A Discussion of Memory, History and the Indian Ocean World -- 17 Omani Identity amid the Oil Crisis -- Index |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910723701303321 |
Fromherz Allen James | ||
Edinburgh : , : Edinburgh University Press, , 2018 | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Imagining the Arabs : Arab identity and the rise of Islam / / Peter Webb |
Autore | Webb Peter <1978-> |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Edinburgh : , : Edinburgh University Press, , [2016] |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (ix, 403 pages) : digital, PDF file(s) |
Disciplina | 320.5409174927 |
Soggetto topico | Arab nationalism |
ISBN |
1-4744-0828-1
1-4744-2643-3 1-4744-2186-5 1-4744-0827-3 |
Classificazione | NK 4100 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Note on the Text -- Introduction -- Part One. The Rise of Arab Communities -- 1. Imagining Ancient Arabs: Sources and Controversies -- 2. Pre-Islamic ‘Arabless-ness’: Arabian Identities -- 3. Arabness from the Qur’an to an Ethnos -- Part Two. The Changing Faces of Arabness in Early Islam -- 4. Interpreting Arabs: Defining their Name and Constructing their Family -- 5. Arabs as a People and Arabness as an Idea: 750–900 CE -- 6. Philologists, ‘Bedouinisation’ and the ‘Archetypal Arab’ after the Mid-Third/Ninth Century -- Imagining and Reimagining the Arabs: Conclusions -- Bibliography -- Index |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910792581903321 |
Webb Peter <1978-> | ||
Edinburgh : , : Edinburgh University Press, , [2016] | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Imagining the Arabs : Arab identity and the rise of Islam / / Peter Webb |
Autore | Webb Peter <1978-> |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Edinburgh : , : Edinburgh University Press, , [2016] |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (ix, 403 pages) : digital, PDF file(s) |
Disciplina | 320.5409174927 |
Soggetto topico | Arab nationalism |
ISBN |
1-4744-0828-1
1-4744-2643-3 1-4744-2186-5 1-4744-0827-3 |
Classificazione | NK 4100 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Note on the Text -- Introduction -- Part One. The Rise of Arab Communities -- 1. Imagining Ancient Arabs: Sources and Controversies -- 2. Pre-Islamic ‘Arabless-ness’: Arabian Identities -- 3. Arabness from the Qur’an to an Ethnos -- Part Two. The Changing Faces of Arabness in Early Islam -- 4. Interpreting Arabs: Defining their Name and Constructing their Family -- 5. Arabs as a People and Arabness as an Idea: 750–900 CE -- 6. Philologists, ‘Bedouinisation’ and the ‘Archetypal Arab’ after the Mid-Third/Ninth Century -- Imagining and Reimagining the Arabs: Conclusions -- Bibliography -- Index |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910811409103321 |
Webb Peter <1978-> | ||
Edinburgh : , : Edinburgh University Press, , [2016] | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Imperial Muslims : Islam, Community and Authority in the Indian Ocean, 1839-1937 / / Scott S. Reese |
Autore | Reese Scott Steven |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Edinburgh : , : Edinburgh University Press, , [2018] |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (ix, 212 pages) : illustrations, maps |
Disciplina | 305.6/9709182409034 |
Soggetto topico |
Social change
Religious communities Muslims British colonies Social change - Indian Ocean Region - History - 20th century Religious communities - Indian Ocean Region - History - 19th century Muslims - Indian Ocean Region - History - 19th century |
Soggetto genere / forma |
History
Electronic books. |
ISBN |
1-4744-3252-2
0-7486-9766-7 |
Classificazione | NK 4100 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Introduction : a community of Muslims -- Hanuman's tunnel : collapsing the space between Hind and Arabia in the Arab imaginary -- Aden, the Company and Indian Ocean interests -- Claims to community : mosques, cemeteries and the universe -- "The Qadi is not a judge" : the Qadi's courts, community and authority -- "An innocent amusement" : marginality, spirit possession and the moral community -- Scripturalism, Sufism and the limits of defining public religiosity. |
Record Nr. | UNISA-996472052703316 |
Reese Scott Steven | ||
Edinburgh : , : Edinburgh University Press, , [2018] | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
Lo trovi qui: Univ. di Salerno | ||
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Imperial Muslims : Islam, Community and Authority in the Indian Ocean, 1839-1937 / / Scott S. Reese |
Autore | Reese Scott Steven |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Edinburgh University Press, 2017 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (ix, 212 pages) : illustrations, maps |
Disciplina | 305.6/9709182409034 |
Soggetto topico |
Social change
Religious communities Muslims British colonies Social change - Indian Ocean Region - History - 20th century Religious communities - Indian Ocean Region - History - 19th century Muslims - Indian Ocean Region - History - 19th century |
Soggetto genere / forma |
History
Electronic books. |
Soggetto non controllato |
History
islam colonialism Indian Ocean British Empire transregional history Islamic reform Aden Muslims Qadi Sayyid Sufism |
ISBN |
1-4744-3252-2
0-7486-9766-7 |
Classificazione | NK 4100 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Introduction : a community of Muslims -- Hanuman's tunnel : collapsing the space between Hind and Arabia in the Arab imaginary -- Aden, the Company and Indian Ocean interests -- Claims to community : mosques, cemeteries and the universe -- "The Qadi is not a judge" : the Qadi's courts, community and authority -- "An innocent amusement" : marginality, spirit possession and the moral community -- Scripturalism, Sufism and the limits of defining public religiosity. |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910255445003321 |
Reese Scott Steven | ||
Edinburgh University Press, 2017 | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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