How has anti-blackness been historically depicted in Arabic writings, and what forms has it taken across diverse genres? Join me & Amir Al-Azraki, the translator of
@NaderKadhim
's groundbreaking book: "Africanism: Blacks in the Medieval Arab Imaginary" on:
يسرني إعلان توقيع عقد ترجمتي لكتاب "بحر من الديون: القانون والحياة الاقتصادية في غرب المحيط الهندي، ١٧٨٠-١٩٥٠" لمؤلفه د. فهد أحمد بشارة
@TheNakhoda
مع مشروع كلمة للترجمة
@KalimaProjectad
نبذة عن الكتاب والمؤلف 🧵
What can material cultures inform us about "therapeutic commodities" and conceptions of health around the Indian Ocean? Join my conversation with Prof.
@gerritsen_anne
discussing the new vol "Histories of Health and Materiality in the
#IndianOceanWorld
"
عرفته عن طريق عمله في التراث العماني، وما شدني إلى لقاءه كونه عالما سليل علماء أشعلوا فكري وأشغلوا مخيلتي في السنوات الأخيرة في بحث الدكتوراة. طرحت أسئلة كثيرة عليه: عن أجداده وجهوده العلمية وما تعلق ببحثي فلامست شغفه بالعلم.
رحم الله الشيخ مهنا بن خلفان الخروصي وأسكنه فسيح جناته
Join us at the "Water Ways: Epistemologies and Aesthetics" conference by
@DohaInstitute
Feb 18-20. I'll present "Dhows as Magical Infrastructures: Reinscribing the Occult in Indian Ocean History" Feb 20 at 12. Keynotes on Oceanic History&Ethnography by
@TheNakhoda
&
@LalehKhalili
"Slavery and Post-Slavery in the Arabian Peninsula: At the Crossroads of Literature and Social Sciences" Conference, Brussels, Monday 16th October 2023, 9am - 6pm. For the Description and Program:
How did diverse printed genres by Muslims in Arabi Malayalam, Bangla, Balochi & others reshape the landscape of Islamic knowledge economy? Listen to
@tuhfatulhind
discussing: "Beyond Colonial Rupture: Print Culture and the Emergence of Muslim Modernity" on
How did the Hajj transform Muslim political culture and impact the dynamics of Mughal-Ottoman-British imperial connections? Listen to Rishad Choudhury sharing his new book "Hajj Across Empires: Pilgrimage and Political Culture After the Mughals,1739-1857"
How can we study Indian Ocean connections through Arabic and Persian literary circles and texts? Tune in for a journey spanning Sanaa to Hyderabad, Isfahan to Bahrain in James White's: "Persian and Arabic Literary Communities in the Seventeenth Century" on
🎙️ How to Navigate the Legal Waves of Islamic Waters? 🌊 Join us as we delve into the fascinating world of "Islamic Law of the Sea: Freedom of Navigation and Passage Rights in Islamic Thought"
@CambridgeUP
by Hassan S. Khalilieh on
@NewBooksNetwork
:
Anyone around Abu Dhabi is welcome to attend my talk, “Slavery and the Esoteric in the Indian Ocean,” at NYU Abu Dhabi. Thursday, April 18th, between 11:30-12:30pm:
One of the most difficult experiences in conducting oral history fieldwork is that you meet amazing people with deep story wells and wisdom ... to eventually say farewell to them ... and continue living with their voices echoing a time long gone.. RIP Salim bin Ghareeb AlBalushi.
How do Afro-descendants Siddis in Gujarat & South African Indians preserve ancestral memories through cultural practices? Explore this creolized resistance in "Performing Memories and Weaving Archives" by
@sayandey89
at:
🎙️What can
#Colophons
reveal about the stories behind Arabic manuscripts and their makers in South Asia? "Scribal Practice and the Global Cultures of Colophons" takes us on a journey through diverse societies and manuscript cultures from 1400–1800 Tune in:
يسرني إعلان صدور ترجمتي "بحر من الديون: القانون والحياة الاقتصادية في غرب المحيط الهندي" لمؤلفه د. فهد بشارة
@TheNakhoda
الصادر عن مشروع كلمة للترجمة
@KalimaProjectad
ودار محيط للنشر
@DarAlmuheet
.متوفر الآن بمعرض أبوظبي للكتاب القاعة 10 المنصة 6i.
عن الكتاب:
يسرني إعلان توقيع عقد ترجمتي لكتاب "بحر من الديون: القانون والحياة الاقتصادية في غرب المحيط الهندي، ١٧٨٠-١٩٥٠" لمؤلفه د. فهد أحمد بشارة
@TheNakhoda
مع مشروع كلمة للترجمة
@KalimaProjectad
نبذة عن الكتاب والمؤلف 🧵
I explored the journey of Islam and Arabic-script literacy in the Congos & the influence of East African & Sudanese textual traditions with Xavier Luffin, ed of "Another Look at Congolese History: Arabic and Swahili Documents in the Belgian Archives" on:
🔊 New Episode of
#IndianOceanWorld
Podcast
@NewBooksNetwork
: A History of Jeddah by Ulrike Freitag,
@cambUP_History
. Tune in to learn about the Gate to Mecca and its Cosmopolitan Red Sea Urban Life and Fabric during the Ottoman, Sharifian, and Saudi Times
New Book: "Under Empire: Muslim Lives and Loyalties Across the Indian Ocean World,1775–1945" Michael Laffan. It offers a sweeping exploration of two centuries of interactions among Muslim subjects of empires and future nation-states around the Indian Ocean
🎙️New Book: "
#The_Medieval_Persian_Gulf
"
@brianjulrich
reveals a rich history from Islam's rise to the Portuguese arrival. It explores the Indian Ocean trade, diverse Arab, Persian, South Asian, and African communities, shifting religious dynamics & more:
A slice of Kuwait in Mumbai "A leafy cemetery tucked behind a wall off a busy road in South Mumbai is the final resting place of many Kuwaitis who spent their entire lives in India." via
@TheNakhoda
I interviewed a 90y old sailor on the Sea of Oman, and found in him the embodiment of the
#Indian_Ocean
when he spoke about his past experiences in
#Arabic
,sang seafaring songs from voyages to Zanzibar in
#Kiswahili
, complained about the present in
#Balochi
, and laughed in
#Hindi
أجريت لقاء في الباطنة مع بحار تسعيني قرب بحر عمان وجدت فيه المحيط الهندي مختزل عندما تحدث بالعربية عن تجاربه، غنى أغاني سفر البحر إلى زنجبار بالسواحلية، شكى الدهر بالبلوشية، وضحك بالهندية...مثله موجات كثيرة تتراطم وتغيب من ضفاف تاريخ الخليج.
#مؤرخ_خليجي
#تاريخ_الخليج
How does "A Book of Waves" challenge our understanding of ocean waves, revealing them as dynamic mediums conveying ecological, geopolitical, & climatological information about our planet?
@TamaraFernando3
and I spoke to Stefan Helmreich about his new book:
Excited to share that I’ll launch this month a podcast series:
#IndianOceanWorld
on
@NewBooksNetwork
First Book Interview 7/9: The Indian Ocean in World History by Edward Alpers. If you have questions about it send them! If you have book suggestions please share them. Stay Tuned!
Comps Exams/ABD ✔I guess I'm certified now to teach: Indian Ocean History; Environmental History; Islamic Legal History; Middle Eastern History, in case anyone is looking for these services😆It feels amazing to come to this stage in the journey, thank you for all of your support
"Archives of the Indian Ocean"
October 21, 2021|12:00pm - 1:45pm EST. Panelists: Sana Aiyar, MIT
Kalyani Ramnath, Harvard University
Gitanjali Surendran, Jindal Law
Moderator: Sugata Bose, Harvard University
🎙️How does the seafarer's body become a battleground for power, tradition, and exploitation in the maritime world? Explore these complexities with
@LalehKhalili
in her new captivating ethnography: "Corporeal Life of Seafaring" on
@NewBooksNetwork
Podcast:
How the trade of luxury and mundane objects shaped material culture in the IndianOceanWorld?🎙New Episode of
#IndianOceanWorld
Podcast
@NewBooksNetwork
:
@NancyUm1
, “Shipped but Not Sold Material Culture and the Social Protocols of Trade during Yemen’s Age of Coffee”
@UHPRESSNEWS
🎧 Tune in to delve into the fascinating realm of "Islamicate Occult Sciences in Theory and Practice" with
@MaslamaQ
Unveiling the mysterious traditions and esoteric knowledge within Islamicate cultures, this episode promises to captivate your imagination:
🎙New Episode of
#IndianOceanWorld
Podcast
@NewBooksNetwork
: Pamila Gupta, "Portuguese Decolonization in the Indian Ocean World: History and Ethnography"
@BloomsburyAcad
.Tune in to learn about decolonization processes across Lusophone Africa and South Asia
Out Today: "The Color Black Enslavement and Erasure in Iran" by Beeta Baghoolizadeh. The Color Black traces the twin processes of enslavement and erasure of Black people in Iran and its diasporas during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries
@BlackIranians
By tracing the movements of Muslim saints and scholars from Yemen to Indonesia,Alatas examines how they traversed complex cultural settings while opening new channels for the transmission of Islam "What Is Religious Authority?" On
#IndianOceanWorld
Podcast
In case you missed it: Isabel Hofmeyr, Lakshmi Subramanian, and Fahad Bishara
@TheNakhoda
delivered excellent keynotes for "The Cosmopolitan Cultures and Oceanic Thought: Thinking Through History Across the Waters" at the Jamia Millia Islamia, New Delhi ⬇️
🔊 New Episode of
#IndianOceanWorld
Podcast Series
@NewBooksNetwork
: The Sovereign and the Pirate by Lakshmi Subramanian,
@OUPHistory
. Tune in to learn about how martime violence played out in the Indian Ocean as compared to the Atlantic World & More!
🎙Join Debjani Bhattacharyya on the
#IndianOceanWorld
Podcast
@NewBooksNetwork
to learn from her imaginatively written and rigorously researched book "Empire and Ecology in the Bengal Delta: The Making of Calcutta"
@cambUP_History
#Hydrocolonialism
: Colonization by way of water; Colonization of water; A colony on/in water; Colonization through water; Colonization of the idea of water. Isabel Hofmeyr speaking to Kelvin Ng about her new book "Dockside Reading"
#IndianOceanWorldPodcast
صدور سجل مكاتبات السلطان برغش بن سعيد منذ ١٨٧٨. فيه فوائد تاريخية عن النظم الإدارية والتجارية في البنادر من الصومال وحتى موزمبيق، وعن علاقات السلطان مع الولاة وقادة العساكر الجمادارية والرعية والقوى الأوروبية. يمكن قراءة السجل في كتاب الشيخ سلطان القاسمي:
🎧Can we think of history from the animal's viewpoint?
How can the roles of equines, sub-/ungulates, mollusks, and avians expand our understandings of commerce & societies? "Animal Trade Histories in the Indian Ocean World" on the
#IndianOceanWorld
Podcast
#IndianOceanWorld
2021 Conference Jan 28-30 on Zoom. Themed roundtables on: Decolonization, Language & Literature, Commerce & Capitalism, Labor & Mobility, Religion, Environment, and Teaching the Indian Ocean World. Organized by
@TheNakhoda
&
@achakrava
👇🏽
Please join us for the "Thinking the Archipelago: Africa’s Indian Ocean Islands” symposium at
@theafricainst
in Sharjah, Dec 15-16. I'll present my ongoing dissertation research "Enslaved East African Intellectuals, the Occult Sciences, and Empire across the Western Indian Ocean"
Found it in my mail, did a double take after seeing the dhow cover, reread the title, it's indeed: Journal of Middle East Studies! Thanks to "The Many Voyages of Fateh Al-Khayr: Unfurling the Gulf in the Age of Oceanic History" by Fahad Bishara
@TheNakhoda
What a great time to turn 32! A year away from home, pandemic, getting a taste of COVID, PhD comps stress, getting random hate due to my nationality... but hey the weather is great today and I'll get that sushi 🎂😆
If you need a 7th reason: join our panel "Occult Landscapes and Mindscapes" Wednesday, 10/07/20 11:00 am. I'll present my ongoing research "The Environmental Meaning of the Occult across the Western Indian Ocean," featuring: Arabic-Swahili manuscripts, red monkeys, and ofc dhows!
What is the meaning of law in the battles of migrants amidst
#decolonization
in South and Southeast Asia's postwar era? Tune in with
@kalramnath
sharing her book "
#Boats_in_a_Storm
: Law, Migration, and Decolonization in South and Southeast Asia, 1942-1962"
"Hindu-Muslim-Jewish Origin Legends in Circulation
between the Malabar Coast and the Mediterranean, 1400s–1800s" a project to analyze and historicize patterns of religious demarcation, circulation of origin legends and their respective textual traditions:
From Damascus to Cairo, Mecca, Yemen, Comoros, Malabar, and Java, Shafi'i jurisprudence traveled far to root itself creating a shared sociolegal frame. Kelvin Ng spoke to
@MahmoodKooria
abt his new book "Islamic Law in Circulation"
@IndianOceanWorldPodcast
"Port Cities and the Persianate" panel asks: to ask what extent Persianate studies relates to the domain and lens of Indian Ocean studies? Tuesday, September 28, 2021
12:00 PM EST
هؤلاء ال٢٢ رجل اجتمعوا ليوقعوا عريضة لتعيين محمد بن شخبوط الريامي اماما لمسجدهم في الجزيرة الخضراء. حدث محلي في شرق أفريقيا لربما لا يجد محلا في كتب التاريخ ولكنه كان يوما مهما لهذه العصبة التي مثلت حراكا مجتمعيا ومواطنة ناشطة معنية بجميع شؤون الحياة
#خواطر_مؤرخ_خليجي
#خزانة_عمان
Ending
@theafricainst
conf with an amazing performance by an Afro-Indian Siddi group from Karnataka, it talked about their community, identity, slavery, and survival. In the QA they said that the 1st time they met people who look like them was in the US meeting African Americans!
How did astronomy shape everyday life in the Gulf region? About that and more, Tamara Fernando & I spoke to
@DanielMVarisco
about his new book "Seasonal Knowledge and the Almanac Tradition in the Arab Gulf" on the
#IndianOceanWOrld
Podcast
@NewBooksNetwork
🎙How did Indian Kachchhi merchants navigate the commercial terrains of Arabia and Africa? Join Chhaya Goswami on the
#IndianOceanWorld
Podcast
@NewBooksNetwork
to explore "Globalization Before Its Time: The Gujarati Merchants from Kachchh"
@penguinrandom
New book by Rishad Choudhury. It presents a new history of imperial connections across the Indian Ocean from 1739 to 1857, a period that witnessed the decline and collapse of Mughal rule and the consolidation of British colonialism in South Asia.
Very much looking forward to Rishad Choudhury's forthcoming book "Hajj across Empires Pilgrimage and Political Culture after the Mughals, 1739–1857 (
@CambridgeUP
) on how "the hajj pilgrimage significantly transformed Muslim political culture and colonial attitudes towards it."
A few residents of Kayalpatnam, in Tamil Nadu, have been trying to generate curiosity around a fast-disappearing language—Arwi. Also called Arabu-Tamil, Arwi developed in Kayalpatnam as a bridge language between seafaring Arabs and Tamil-speaking Muslims:
CFP: "Navigating the Transcultural Indian Ocean: Texts and Practices in Contact," 2nd RUTTER international workshop. Deadline: 31 March 2024. Online, 4–5 June 2024. Contact: juan.acevedo
@fc
.ul.pt
@ErcRutter
🎧Before leaving the world for the national service, here's my last podcast: a historiographical treat from
@MChrisLow
on
#Imperial_Mecca
reflecting on Ottoman Studies,
#Indian_Ocean_World
, Imperial Archives, Environment, Beduins, Saudi State, & Mo0ore 👇🏽
كتاب من رسالة ماجستير الباحثة العمانية هدى الزدجالي في جامعة الشارقة عن التاريخ السياسي العماني في ساحل مكران خلال القرن العشرين. الكتاب نواة مشروع أكبر لتحليل ودراسة الانعكاسات الناتجة من هذه العلاقة الوطيدة بين ساحلي بحر عمان وسكانه بدو البحر المنتقلين عبر هذا الجسر المائي.
The Portuguese in the Gulf (1570-1650): An Interlinked History": an exhibition at Sharjah International Book Fair 2023 by
@SharjahBookAuth
and
@UnivdeCoimbra
The exhibition catalog can be accessed here:
Tomorrow the PhD comps exams rollercoaster begins its very slow descend 🎢, so I'll stay away from my phone and social media until the end of Oct 16th. It will be an interesting scientific experiment on how productive a human can be during this lunacy✌
What is "Indian" in the Indian Ocean and what is "Oceanic" in India's history? Join my conversation with Rila Mukherjee about her new book: "India in the Indian Ocean World: From the Earliest Times to 1800" on the
#IndianOceanWorld
podcast
@NewBooksNetwork
Ever wondered how occult sciences, tantra & animals shaped empires beyond courts? Could magic wielded by 'low'-caste specialists challenge the ambitions of kings? Listen to
@dillivali
discussing her imaginative article "The Owl and the Occult"
@CSSHJournal
الكتابات حول تاريخ الصلات العمانية بشرق أفريقيا مازال في أغلبه يدور في فلك السلطة والسياسة بمناهج تقليدية وسرد أشبه بالحوليات القروسطية المضجرة بينما الجوانب الإجتماعية والمؤسسات لم تنل ما تستحق. كمثال مسجد بني #رواحة في #زنجبار والذي كان مركزا علميا واجتماعيا شيخه حمود #الخليلي.
To Ph.D. students, avoid this at any cost, it will come back to bite you later: corrupt files, and disorganized terabytes of files. Invest in an organized cloud early on, it's worth it!
Southern Arabia undergoes a transformative period with the arrival of the Monsoon. Examining the practices of the Dhofaris, we learn how they historically and presently inhabit this land & make their homes: "Houseways in Southern Oman" by Marielle Risse on
I'm organizing a MESA panel, set in Nov 2-5 Montreal. It focuses on Arabia-East Africa connections, inclusive of history and anthropology, grads and faculty, dm if you're interested in presenting or being a discussant. Abstracts by Jan 15.
من حي الباغ في #مسقط إلى الباغ في #زنجبار شخوص تاريخية حول هذه المفردة والتي تعني بالبلوشية الحديقة. ومنها مسجد الباغ ورواده عام ١٩١٦ منهم #ريامي #مغيري #محرمي #برواني #مسكري #هاشمي #يعربي #فلاحي وغيرهم. أجد نفسي وأناأبحث في خضم باغ آخرمع كل هذه الأصوات في أوراق عبر المحيط الهندي
Who are the 'Swahilis'? What constitutes their World? Join Adria LaViolette & Stephanie Wynne-Jones on the
#IndianOceanWorld
Podcast
@NewBooksNetwork
to learn from 56 chapters on the archaeology, history,linguistics, and anthropology of "The Swahili World"
📻Afro-Asian solidarity is best understood, Antoinette Burton contends, by using friction as a lens to expose the...political tensions throughout the postcolonial global South. "Africa in the Indian Imagination"
@DukePress
on the
#IndianOceanWorld
Podcast
A documentary on
#Kumzar
and
#Kumzari
language: a Southwestern Iranian language that retained pre-Islamic Middle Persian features and became heavily influenced by Arabic, and some South Arabian languages, representing a fossilized sociolinguistic landscape at the edge of Arabia!
يتحدثون بلغة لا يفهمها أقرب جيرانهم..
الكمزارية.. لسان أهل كمزار.. القرية الصغيرة النائية قرب مضيق هرمز.
عزت وجدي يأخذنا لاستكشاف الكمزارية من قريتها المحصورة بين بحر وجبل.
#على_سفر
@ezatwagdi
The 1st Episode of The
#IndianOceanWorld
Podcast Series on
@NewBooksNetwork
is up! Checkout my interview with Ned Alpers, cohosted with Kelvin Ng, exploring "The Indian Ocean in World History" by
@OUPHistory
The
#IOW
Series Webpage:
From the Safavid diplomatic mission in today's Thailand to South Asian Bazaars & Japan, join my conversation with Radhika Seshan about two new books: "Connecting the Indian Ocean World:
Across Sea and Land" & "Merchants and Ports in the Indian Ocean World"
Thanks to all of your support the
#IndianOceanWorld
Podcast is now a Permanent Podcast Channel on the
@NewBooksNetwork
!
Please spread the word, anyone can be a host, we can never have enough hosts to keep the episodes coming!
🎙Join Thomas Metcalf on 🌊
#IndianOceanWorld
Podcast
@NewBooksNetwork
to learn about the role of India in the trajectory of the British Empire in the Indian Ocean during the 19th century ⤵️
IMPERIAL CONNECTIONS (
@ucpress
) offers a broad-ranging view of the workings of the
#BritishEmpire
when the India of the Raj stood at the center of a newly globalized system of trade, investment, and migration.
🎙️Thomas R. Metcalf joins
@Ahmed_Yaqoub
↙️
Gulf historiography is still under the curse/spell of the India Office Records. De-IOR the Gulf!! It's not only an archival convenient excuse but also devaluing local knowledge and avoiding alternative sources and methodologies that were developed for parallel parts of the world!
As researchers on Gulf politics and history, we are often told that there are no local archives (& sometimes that there is no such thing as civil society in the Gulf), but sources like Sawt al-Bahrain, though not archives per say, show how such claims are flawed
#مكران و #عمان و #زنجبار ثلاثة أقاليم مطلة على #عالم_المحيط_الهندي ارتبطت بشريا وثقافيا وتاريخيا وسياسيا واقتصاديا من خلال #السيادة_العمانية وماسبقها من الأواصر التي أدت إلى تشكل ثقافة عابرة للجغرافيا واللغات. وهذه الروابط بحد ذاتها تشكل حقلا معرفيا ما زال توثيقه في مرحلة البداية
Our
@MESA_1966
panel: "Knowledge Translated and Vernacularized: Science, Magic, and Philosophy in the Islamicate World" is on the 2024 program! The panelists:
@GenieYoo818
, Thomas Benfey
@invisible_east
,
@ccemturkoz
, and yours. Our Discussant:
@kaohu11
. It is virtual, time TBD.
🎧What differentiated between the Empires of the Indian Ocean and the intruding Europeans? What are the impacts of their encounters on political and linguistic identities?👂🏽 "Land and Maritime Empires in the Indian Ocean" on the
#IndianOceanWorld
Podcast 👇🏽
Don't miss "The Persianate Bazaar," a
#JESHO
special issue edited by Nandini Chatterjee and co-introduced with Fahad Bishara
@TheNakhoda
, for articles spanning the Arabian Peninsula
to South Asia:
بقايا مقبرة اليهود في صحار. النقش العبري يقول "ابرهم" أي ابراهيم. هناك مقبرة يهودية في عدن كذلك وتعود للقرن العاشر الميلادي، وكانت هناك علاقات بينهم وبين يهود عمان كما تدل وثيقة وجدتها، ويهود عدن وثق تاريخهم كذلك بوثائق الجنيزا في القاهرة. حيث انهم كانوا من تجار التوابل الهندية.