Contents

pp iii-vi

List of Illustrations

pp vii-ix

Map of the Gulf

pp x-xi

Acknowledgements

pp xii-xv

List of Contributors

pp xvi-xviii

1 - Introduction: World History in the Gulf as a Gulf in World History

pp 1-24

Part I - Gulf Cosmopolitanism

pp 25-26

2 - The Cosmopolitan Figure as Ethical Exemplar: Notes from a Tenth-century Gulf Encyclopedia

pp 27-34

3 - The Gulf: A Cosmopolitan Mobile Society – Hormuz, 1475–1515 CE

pp 35-56

4 - From Jerusalem to the Karûn: What can Mandæan Geographies Tell Us?

pp 57-88

Part II - The Gulf and the Indian Ocean

pp 89-90

5 - Merchant Communities and Cross-cultural Trade between Gujarat and the Gulf in the Late Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries

pp 91-104

6 - The Banians of Muscat: A South Asian Merchant Community in Oman and the Gulf, c. 1500–1700

pp 105-119

7 - Khaliji Hindustan: Towards a Diasporic History of Khalijis in South Asia from the 1780s to the 1960s

pp 120-136

Part III - East Africans in the Khalij and the Khalij in East Africa

pp 137-138

8 - Africans and the Gulf: Between Diaspora and Cosmopolitanism

pp 139-159

9 - East Africa, the Global Gulf and the New Thalassology of the Indian Ocean

pp 160-182

Part IV - Diversity and Change: Between Sky, Land and Sea

pp 183-184

10 - Astrology as a Node of Connectivity between the Pre-modern Mediterranean and Gulf

pp 185-200

11 - Ships of the Gulf: Shifting Names and Networks

pp 201-218

12 - The Role of Indian Ocean Trade Inland: The Buraimi Oasis

pp 219-236

Part V - Recent Gulf Archaeology

pp 237-238

13 - Pearl Fishing and Globalisation: From the Neolithic to the Twentieth Century CE

pp 239-261

14 - An Archaeology of Glass and International Trade in the Gulf

pp 262-292

Part VI - Heritage and Memory in the Gulf

pp 293-294

15 - From History to Heritage: The Arabian Incense Burner

pp 295-312

16 - Doha’s Msheireb Heritage House Museums: A Discussion of Memory, History and the Indian Ocean World

pp 313-332

17 - Omani Identity amid the Oil Crisis

pp 333-357

Index

pp 358-370