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Publisher:
Cambridge University Press
Online publication date:
March 2017
Print publication year:
2017
Online ISBN:
9781316659083
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.1017/9781316659083
Subjects:
Middle East Studies, Area Studies, South Asian History, Regional and World History: General Interest, Asian Studies, History, Middle East History, Global History
Series:
Asian Connections
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Book description

In this innovative legal history of economic life in the Western Indian Ocean, Bishara examines the transformations of Islamic law and Islamicate commercial practices during the emergence of modern capitalism in the region. In this time of expanding commercial activity, a mélange of Arab, Indian, Swahili and Baloch merchants, planters, jurists, judges, soldiers and seamen forged the frontiers of a shared world. The interlinked worlds of trade and politics that these actors created, the shared commercial grammars and institutions that they developed and the spatial and socio-economic mobilities they engaged in endured until at least the middle of the twentieth century. This major study examines the Indian Ocean from Oman to India and East Africa over an extended period of time, drawing together the histories of commerce, law and empire in a sophisticated, original and richly textured history of capitalism in the Islamic world.

Awards

Winner, 2018 J. Willard Hurst Prize, Law and Society Association

Co-winner, 2018 Bentley Book Prize, World History Association

Winner, 2018 Peter Gonville Stein Book Award, American Society for Legal History

Reviews

'… essential reading for anyone interested in the Indian Ocean world, Islam, economic life, and of course, the law.'

Johan Mathew Source: H-IslamInAfrica

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