This book is a study of the seafaring communities of the Arabian Gulf and Oman in the past 150 years. It is an analysis of the significance of the dhow and how coastal communities interacted in the long tradition of seafaring. In addition to the archival material, this work is b…
This book is a study of the seafaring communities of the Arabian Gulf and Oman in the past 150 years. It analyses the significance of the dhow and how coastal communities interacted throughout their long tradition of seafaring. In addition to archival material, the work is based…
Using early material recorded in Basran and Omani sources, this book deconstructs the standard account of origins, showing that Ibâdism's evolution into a madhhab (school) can only be understood in a wider historical perspective of the tribal and regional dimensions.--[Source in…
