14 An Archaeology of Glass and International Trade in the Gulf

Kapitel in diesem Buch

1. Frontmatter i
2. CONTENTS iii
3. List of Illustrations vii
4. Map of the Gulf x
5. Acknowledgements xii
6. List of Contributors xvi
7. 1 Introduction: World History in the Gulf as a Gulf in World History 1
8. Part I Gulf Cosmopolitanism
9. 2 The Cosmopolitan Figure as Ethical Exemplar: Notes from a Tenth-century Gulf Encyclopedia 27
10. 3 The Gulf: A Cosmopolitan Mobile Society – Hormuz, 1475–1515 CE 35
11. 4 From Jerusalem to the Karûn: What can Mandæan Geographies Tell Us? 57
12. Part II The Gulf and the Indian Ocean
13. 5 Merchant Communities and Cross-cultural Trade between Gujarat and the Gulf in the Late Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries 91
14. 6 The Banians of Muscat: A South Asian Merchant Community in Oman and the Gulf, c. 1500–1700 105
15. 7 Khaliji Hindustan: Towards a Diasporic History of Khalijis in South Asia from the 1780s to the 1960s 120
16. Part III East Africans in the Khalij and the Khalij in East Africa
17. 8 Africans and the Gulf: Between Diaspora and Cosmopolitanism 139
18. 9 East Africa, the Global Gulf and the New Thalassology of the Indian Ocean 160
19. Part IV Diversity and Change: Between Sky, Land and Sea
20. 10 Astrology as a Node of Connectivity between the Pre-modern Mediterranean and Gulf 185
21. 11 Ships of the Gulf: Shifting Names and Networks 201
22. 12 The Role of Indian Ocean Trade Inland: The Buraimi Oasis 219
23. Part V Recent Gulf Archaeology
24. 13 Pearl Fishing and Globalisation: From the Neolithic to the Twentieth Century CE 239
25. 14 An Archaeology of Glass and International Trade in the Gulf 262
26. Part VI Heritage and Memory in the Gulf
27. 15 From History to Heritage: The Arabian Incense Burner 295
28. 16 Doha’s Msheireb Heritage House Museums: A Discussion of Memory, History and the Indian Ocean World 313
29. 17 Omani Identity amid the Oil Crisis 333
30. Index 358