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After an introduction placing Hadhramis in the context of other diasporas, there are sections on local and international politics, social stratification and integration, religious and social reform, and economic dynamics. The conclusion brings the story to the present day and outlines a research agenda.
Many aspects of Indian Ocean history are illuminated by this book, notably the role of non-Western merchants in the spread of capitalism, Islamisation and the controversies which raged within Islam, British and Ottoman strategic concerns, social antagonisms in southern Arabia, and the cosmopolitan character of coastal societies.
After an introduction placing Hadhramis in the context of other diasporas, there are sections on local and international politics, social stratification and integration, religious and social reform, and economic dynamics. The conclusion brings the story to the present day and outlines a research agenda.
Many aspects of Indian Ocean history are illuminated by this book, notably the role of non-Western merchants in the spread of capitalism, Islamisation and the controversies which raged within Islam, British and Ottoman strategic concerns, social antagonisms in southern Arabia, and the cosmopolitan character of coastal societies.
Literatur/Book Reviews / Die Welt des Islams 49 (2009) 122-161 137 The Global Worlds of the Swahili: Interfaces of Islam, Identity and Space in 19 th and 20 th - Century East Africa . By Roman Loimeier & Rüdiger Seesemann (eds.). Berlin: Lit 2006 (Beiträge zur Afrikaforschung Vol. 26). x + 409
, i-g. Wir hoffen, dass der ausgezcichnete Kenner des Athiopischen und Arabischen uns noch weitere Werke dieser Art schenken wird. Otto Spies (Bonn) Otto Spies (Bonn) LITERATUR G. S. P. Freeman-Grenville: The East African Coast. Select Documents from the first to the earlier nineteenth century
The Ibadis in the Region of the Indian Ocean. Section One : East Africa , Hildesheim-Zürich-New York, Georg Olms Verlag (« Studies on Ibadism and Oman », 1), 2013, 446 p., isbn : 978-3-487-14801-4, 68 € relié. Le livre de Heinz Gaube, consacré à la côte swahilie, se veut une compilation
same neighborhood. A significant number were buried in Cairo. Typically captured and enslaved in East Africa, Egypt was where their lives as eunuchs had begun, first with castration and then initial training for Ottoman service. Hathaway has been one of the leading figures in re-integrating the
Barbar ) in the Egyptian city of Fusṭāṭ. 19 The absence of the definite article indicates that it was the market of the people of Barbar ( āl barbar ) not the Barbar ( al-barbar ). Again, the Barbar in question is the east African region to the south of the city of Fusṭāṭ. Thus, one may safely