Introduction

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Figures vii
4. Introduction 1
5. Part I Muslim Identities, Literature and Diasporas
6. Chapter 1 Developing the Harari Muşḥaf: The Indian Ocean Milieu of Ethiopian Scribes 21
7. Chapter 2 The Making of a Qurʾān Manuscript in Lamu Archipelago: The Indian Ocean Cross-cultural Influence 40
8. Chapter 3 Muslim Identities of the Indian Ocean: the Ibadi Al Bu Saʾid of Oman during the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries 58
9. Chapter 4 Religion, Ethnicity and Identity in the Zanzibar Sultanate 73
10. Chapter 5 Transcending Boundaries: Sayyida Salme/Emily Ruete and Siti binti Saad 91
11. Chapter 6 Exploring the Geographies and Locales in Shaykh Jamali Dehlawi’s Siyar al-ʿārifīn (The Virtues of Gnostics) 116
12. Chapter 7 A Persian View of the Maritime Muslim Frontier in Southeast Asia: The Jāmiʿ al-barr waʾl-bar 147
13. Chapter 8 ‘Sword of the Two Sanctuaries’: Islam of and in the Modern Indian Ocean 157
14. Part II Monuments and Heritage in Muslim Contexts
15. Chapter 9 The Indian Ocean as a Maritime Cultural Landscape and Heritage Route 183
16. Chapter 10 Indian Ocean Heritage and Sustainable Conservation, from Zanzibar to Kilwa 187
17. Chapter 11 Early Swahili Mosques: The Role of Ibadi and Ismaili Communities, Ninth to Twelfth Centuries 215
18. Chapter 12 Traditional Bohra Dwellings of Gujarat, India: Architectural Response to Cultural Ethos 246
19. Chapter 13 Regionalism in Religious Architecture of India: A Comparative Study of Mosques in Gujarat and Kerala 271
20. Chapter 14 Architecture of Coral Stone Mosques of the Maldives 299
21. Chapter 15 The Development of Early Islamic Architecture and Decoration in the Malay-Indonesian Archipelago (Nusantara) 318
22. About the Contributors 346
23. Index 348