The Life of the Red Sea Dhow

Dionisius A. Agius

ISBN 10: 1838603425 / ISBN 13: 9781838603427

Verlag: Bloomsbury Academic, 2019

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Inhaltsangabe:

Few images are as evocative as the silhouette of the Arab dhow as, under full sail, it tacks to windward on glittering waters of Red Sea before moving across the face of the rising or setting sun. In this authoritative new book, Dionisius A. Agius, one of the foremost scholars of Islamic material culture, offers a lucid and wide-ranging history of the iconic dhow from medieval to modern times. Traversing the Arabian and African coasts, he shows that the dhow was central not just to commerce but to the vital transmission and exchange of ideas. Discussing trade and salt routes, shoals and wind patterns, spice harvest seasons and the deep and resonant connection between language, memory and oral tradition, this is the first book to place the dhow in its full and remarkable cultural contexts.

Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor: Dionisius A. Agius is a Fellow of the British Academy, Professor Emeritus of Arabic Studies and Islamic Material Culture and Senior Research Fellow at the University of Exeter. He is the author of numerous publications on the maritime history and culture of the Islamicate Indian Ocean, the Arabian Gulf and the African and Arabian Red Sea including most recently The Life of the Red Sea Dhow (I.B. Tauris, 2019).

Bibliografische Details

Titel: The Life of the Red Sea Dhow
Verlag: Bloomsbury Academic
Erscheinungsdatum: 2019
Einband: PAP
Zustand: New