The Persian Gulf today is home to multiple cosmopolitan urban hubs of globalization. This did not start with the discovery of oil. This book tells of the Gulf from the rise of Islam until the coming of the Portuguese, when port cities such as Siraf, Sohar, and Hormuz were entrepots for trading pearls, horses, spices, and other products across much of Asia and eastern Africa. Indeed, products traded there became a key part of the material culture of medieval Islamic civilization, and the Gulf region itself was a crucial membrane between the Middle East and the world of the broader Indian Ocean. The book also highlights the long-term presence of communities of South Asian and African ancestry, as well as patterns of religious change among Jews, Christians, Zoroastrians, and Muslims that belie the image of a region long polarized between Arabs and Persians and Sunnis and Shi’ites.
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Bibliographische Angaben
Auflage
1/2023
Copyrightjahr
2023
ISBN-Print
978-1-80270-004-6
ISBN-Online
978-1-80270-151-7
Verlag
Arc Humanities Press, Yorkshire
Reihe
Past Imperfect
Sprache
Englisch
Seiten
124
Produkttyp
Monographie
Inhaltsverzeichnis
KapitelSeiten
List of Illustrations Kein Zugriff
Timeline Kein Zugriff
Introduction Kein Zugriff Seiten 1 - 8
Chapter 1. Religious Diversity of the Early Islamic Era Kein Zugriff Seiten 9 - 28
Chapter 2. Ethnic Diversity Kein Zugriff Seiten 29 - 42
Chapter 3. The Society of Trade in the Early Islamic Period Kein Zugriff Seiten 43 - 58
Chapter 4. New Trade Centres after 1000 Kein Zugriff Seiten 59 - 74
Chapter 5. Islamic Sects in the Late Medieval Gulf Kein Zugriff Seiten 75 - 90
