Arab Navigation in the Indian Ocean Before the Coming of the Portuguese
| Author | : Aḥmad ibn Mājid al-Saʻdī |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 648 |
| Release | : 1972 |
| Genre | : Arabs |
| ISBN | : |
Arab Navigation In The Indian Ocean Before The Portuguese
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Arab Navigation in the Indian Ocean Before the Portuguese
| Author | : G.R. Tibbetts |
| Publisher | : Psychology Press |
| Total Pages | : 640 |
| Release | : 2002-03-01 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 9780947593230 |
Ships and the Development of Maritime Technology on the Indian Ocean
| Author | : Ruth Barnes |
| Publisher | : Routledge |
| Total Pages | : 379 |
| Release | : 2015-12-22 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 1317793439 |
Recognising the fundamental role both of shipping communities and the technologies crafted and shared by them, this book explores the types of ships, methods of navigation and modes of water-borne trade in the Indian Ocean region and the way they affected the development of distinctive settlements against a changing but strong sense of regional consciousness and identity.
Monsoon Islam
| Author | : Sebastian R. Prange |
| Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
| Total Pages | : 362 |
| Release | : 2018-05-03 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 1108342698 |
Between the twelfth and sixteenth centuries, a distinct form of Islamic thought and practice developed among Muslim trading communities of the Indian Ocean. Sebastian R. Prange argues that this 'Monsoon Islam' was shaped by merchants not sultans, forged by commercial imperatives rather than in battle, and defined by the reality of Muslims living within non-Muslim societies. Focusing on India's Malabar Coast, the much-fabled 'land of pepper', Prange provides a case study of how Monsoon Islam developed in response to concrete economic, socio-religious, and political challenges. Because communities of Muslim merchants across the Indian Ocean were part of shared commercial, scholarly, and political networks, developments on the Malabar Coast illustrate a broader, trans-oceanic history of the evolution of Islam across monsoon Asia. This history is told through four spaces that are examined in their physical manifestations as well as symbolic meanings: the Port, the Mosque, the Palace, and the Sea.
Seafaring in the Arabian Gulf and Oman
| Author | : Dionisius A. Agius |
| Publisher | : Routledge |
| Total Pages | : 314 |
| Release | : 2012-12-06 |
| Genre | : Social Science |
| ISBN | : 1136201823 |
This book is a study of the seafaring communities of the Arabian Gulf and Oman in the past 150 years. It analyses the significance of the dhow and how coastal communities interacted throughout their long tradition of seafaring. In addition to archival material, the work is based on extensive field research in which the voices of seamen were recorded in over 200 interviews. The book provides an integrated study of dhow activity in the area concerned and examines the consciousness of belonging to the wider culture of the Indian ocean as it is expressed in boat-building traditions, navigational techniques, crew organisation and port towns. People of the Dhow brings together the different measures of time past, the sea, its people and their material culture. The Arabian Gulf and Oman have traditionally shared a common destiny within the Western Indian Ocean. The seasonal monsoonal winds were fundamental to the physical and human unities of the seafaring communities, producing a way of life in harmony with the natural world, a world which was abruptly changed with the discovery of oil. What remains is memories of a seafaring past, a history of traditions and customs recorded here in the recollections of a dying generation and in the rich artistic heritage of the region.
Shipbuilding, Navigation and the Portuguese in Pre-modern India
| Author | : K.S. Mathew |
| Publisher | : Routledge |
| Total Pages | : 181 |
| Release | : 2017-08-09 |
| Genre | : Transportation |
| ISBN | : 1351588338 |
India, especially coastal India, has a long history of shipbuilding and navigation dating back to the Indus Valley Civilization. Indian shipwrights and the labour force associated with various aspects of shipbuilding excelled in naval architecture. Their native wisdom was adopted by the Europeans engaged in shipbuilding in coastal India. Similarly some of the techniques of navigation followed by Indians were emulated by the European mariners. A comprehensive peep into the science of naval architecture and navigation is attempted in this work making a comparative study of Indian and Portuguese architecture and navigation. The volume discusses the importance of the timber grown in the monsoon-fed forests of the Malabar coast and its appreciation by the Portuguese shipwrights and theoreticians of naval architecture. The work shows that increase of the tonnage of ocean-going vessels and the appearance of hostile mariners from other quarters of Western Europe compelled the Portuguese to adopt enhanced technology in naval architecture and navigation. The fact that the use of canons for defence against intruders made the Portuguese vessels stronger than the Indian ships which, for centuries, were accustomed to considerably peaceful navigation is also brought out in this much anticipated volume.
The Indian Ocean in World History
| Author | : Edward A. Alpers |
| Publisher | : Oxford University Press, USA |
| Total Pages | : 183 |
| Release | : 2014 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 0195337875 |
The Indian Ocean in World History explores the cultural exchanges that took place in this region from ancient to modern times.
India Traders of the Middle Ages
| Author | : Shelomo Dov Goitein |
| Publisher | : BRILL |
| Total Pages | : 949 |
| Release | : 2008 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 9004154728 |
The annotated and translated letters of 11th-12th century traders of the Jewish Indian Ocean, found in the Cairo Geniza, provide fascinating information on commerce between the Far East, Yemen and the Mediterranean, medieval material, social, and spiritual civilization among Jews and Arabs, and Judeo-Arabic.
Islamic Law of the Sea
| Author | : Hassan S. Khalilieh |
| Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
| Total Pages | : 305 |
| Release | : 2019-05-02 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 1108481450 |
This pioneering research brings into focus the Islamic contribution and influence in the development of the modern law of the sea.
The New Cambridge History of Islam: Volume 3, The Eastern Islamic World, Eleventh to Eighteenth Centuries
| Author | : David O. Morgan |
| Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
| Total Pages | : 847 |
| Release | : 2010-11-04 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 1316184366 |
This volume traces the second great expansion of the Islamic world eastwards from the eleventh century to the eighteenth. As the faith crossed cultural boundaries, the trader and the mystic became as important as the soldier and the administrator. Distinctive Islamic idioms began to emerge from other great linguistic traditions apart from Arabic, especially in Turkish, Persian, Urdu, Swahili, Malay and Chinese. The Islamic world transformed and absorbed new influences. As the essays in this collection demonstrate, three major features distinguish the time and place from both earlier and modern experiences of Islam. Firstly, the steppe tribal peoples of central Asia had a decisive impact on the Islamic lands. Secondly, Islam expanded along the trade routes of the Indian Ocean and the South China Sea. Thirdly, Islam interacted with Asian spirituality, including Hinduism, Sikhism, Buddhism, Taoism and Shamanism. It was during this period that Islam became a truly world religion.
