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Author: Dionisius A. Agius
Publisher: BRILL
Published: 2008
Total Pages: 530
ISBN-13: 9004158634
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Drawing upon Arabic literary sources, iconographic evidence and archaeological finds, this book examines trade, port towns, ship construction, seamanship, ship typology and their historical development in the Western Indian Ocean, focussing on the Medieval Islamic period but including earlier sources.
Author: Deborah N Carlson
Publisher: Texas A&M University Press
Published: 2015-03-15
Total Pages: 270
ISBN-13: 1623492297
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →In 2007 a symposium was held at Texas A&M University to celebrate the twenty-fifth anniversary of Texas A&M University Press’s publication of the first volume reporting the Yassiada shipwreck site. Seventeen papers from that symposium featured in this book broadly illustrate such varied topics as ships and seafaring life, maritime trade, naval texts, commercial cargoes, and recent developments in the analysis of the Yassiada ship itself.
Author: Hassan S. Khalilieh
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2019-05-02
Total Pages: 305
ISBN-13: 1108481450
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This pioneering research brings into focus the Islamic contribution and influence in the development of the modern law of the sea.
Author: Lincoln Paine
Publisher: Vintage
Published: 2015-10-27
Total Pages: 802
ISBN-13: 1101970359
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →A monumental retelling of world history through the lens of the sea—revealing in breathtaking depth how people first came into contact with one another by ocean and river, lake and stream, and how goods, languages, religions, and entire cultures spread across and along the world’s waterways, bringing together civilizations and defining what makes us most human. The Sea and Civilization is a mesmerizing, rhapsodic narrative of maritime enterprise, from the origins of long-distance migration to the great seafaring cultures of antiquity; from Song Dynasty human-powered paddle-boats to aircraft carriers and container ships. Lincoln Paine takes the reader on an intellectual adventure casting the world in a new light, in which the sea reigns supreme. Above all, Paine makes clear how the rise and fall of civilizations can be linked to the sea. An accomplishment of both great sweep and illuminating detail, The Sea and Civilization is a stunning work of history.
Author: Sara A. Rich
Publisher: Archaeopress Publishing Ltd
Published: 2017-04-19
Total Pages: 290
ISBN-13: 1784913669
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →It is commonly recognized that the Cedars of Lebanon were prized in the ancient world, but how can the complex archaeological role of the Cedrus genus be articulated in terms that go beyond its interactions with humans alone?
Author: Jacob Lassner
Publisher: Praeger
Published: 2010
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 0275985695
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →"Islam in the Middle Ages addresses the intellectual and religious achievements of medieval Muslims against the backdrop of an evolving political and social history that shaped the ways in which Muslims understood themselves and the larger world. Unlike many authors of similar surveys, Lassner and Bonner not only emphasize historical trends, but show readers how difficult it is to fashion a coherent historical narrative out of the complex and often contradictory primary sources. Readers thus participate in the intricate process by which professional historians attempt to reconstruct the past. At the same time, since classical Islamic civilization is so important for Muslims in the present-day Near East, this book will help the reader understand the contemporary Islamic world." --Book Jacket.
Author: Mahmood Kooria
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2021-09-23
Total Pages: 197
ISBN-13: 1000435350
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This book explores the ways in which Muslim communities across the Indian Ocean world produced and shaped Islamic law and its texts, ideas and practices in their local, regional, imperial, national and transregional contexts. With a focus on the production and transmission of Islamic law in the Indian Ocean, the chapters in this book draw from and add to recent discourses on the legal histories and anthropologies of the Indian Ocean rim as well as to the conversations on global Islamic circulations. By doing so, this book argues for the importance of Islamic legal thoughts and practices of the so-called "peripheries" to the core and kernel of Islamic traditions and the urgency of addressing their long-existing role in the making of the historical and human experience of the religion. Islamic law was and is not merely brought to, but also produced in the Indian Ocean world through constant and critical engagements. The book takes a long-term and transregional perspective for a better understanding of the ways in which the oceanic Muslims have historically developed their religious, juridical and intellectual traditions and continue to shape their lives within the frameworks of their religion. Transregional and transdisciplinary in its approach, this book will be of interest to scholars of Islamic Studies, Indian Ocean Studies, Legal History and Legal Anthropology, Area Studies of South and Southeast Asia and East Africa.
Author: Dionisius A. Agius
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Published: 2019-04-04
Total Pages: 338
ISBN-13: 1786724871
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Few images are as evocative as the silhouette of the Arab dhow as, under full sail, it tacks to windward on glittering waters of Red Sea before moving across the face of the rising or setting sun. In this authoritative new book, Dionisius A. Agius, one of the foremost scholars of Islamic material culture, offers a lucid and wide-ranging history of the iconic dhow from medieval to modern times. Traversing the Arabian and African coasts, he shows that the dhow was central not just to commerce but to the vital transmission and exchange of ideas. Discussing trade and salt routes, shoals and wind patterns, spice harvest seasons and the deep and resonant connection between language, memory and oral tradition, this is the first book to place the dhow in its full and remarkable cultural contexts.
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Publisher: BRILL
Published: 2013-05-30
Total Pages: 372
ISBN-13: 900425157X
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Technology, Skills and the Pre-Modern Economy investigates how technological skills and knowledge were reproduced and disseminated in the advanced agrarian societies of China, India, Russia and Europe in the centuries before the Industrial Revolution. The book offers regional surveys of Europe, China and India, as well as comparative studies of building, porcelain manufacturing, instrument making, printing, and shipbuilding. The authors engage with the on-going debate about the ‘great divergence’ between Asia and Europe, and its possible causes. Technology has so far had a minor role in that debate. This book is bound to change that, through the bold claims made by various contributors. Contributors are: Karel Davids, S.R. Epstein †, Gijs Kessler, Jan Lucassen, Christine Moll-Murata, Patrick O'Brien, Kenneth Pomeranz, Maarten Prak, Tirthankar Roy, Richard Unger, and Jan Luiten van Zanden.
Author: Mahmood Kooria
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2022-03-31
Total Pages: 467
ISBN-13: 1009116886
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Looking at the spread and survival of Islamic legal ideas in the Eastern Mediterranean and the Indian Ocean littorals in the second millennium CE, this book focuses on the Shāfiʿī school of Islamic law to explore the nuances of juridical exchanges across several centuries and vast regions.
