Monsoon Islam: trade and faith on the medieval Malabar Coast
Reveals a distinct trajectory of Islamic history that developed among Muslim merchant communities across the medieval Indian Ocean
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| Format: | Print Book |
| Language: | English |
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Cambridge New York, NY
Cambridge University Press
2018
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| In: | Year: 2018 |
| Series/Journal: | Cambridge Oceanic histories
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| Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains: | B
Malabar
/ Islam
/ Commerce
/ Cultural contact
/ History 1100-1700
B Malabar / Islam / Commerce / History 1100-1700 B Islam / India |
| Further subjects: | B
Malabar Coast (India)
Commerce
History
B Islam B Malabar Coast (India) Commerce History India Malabar Coast B Islam (India) (Malabar Coast) History B Islam History India Malabar Coast B Commerce |
| Summary: | Reveals a distinct trajectory of Islamic history that developed among Muslim merchant communities across the medieval Indian Ocean The first Indian Muslim -- The port -- The mosque -- The palace -- The sea -- Monsoon Muslims Between the twelfth and sixteenth centuries, a distinct form of Islamic thought and practice developed among Muslim trading communities of the Indian Ocean. Sebastian R. Prange argues that this 'Monsoon Islam' was shaped by merchants not sultans, forged by commercial imperatives rather than in battle, and defined by the reality of Muslims living within non-Muslim societies. Focusing on India's Malabar Coast, the much-fabled 'land of pepper', Prange provides a case study of how Monsoon Islam developed in response to concrete economic, socio-religious, and political challenges. Because communities of Muslim merchants across the Indian Ocean were part of shared commercial, scholarly, and political networks, developments on the Malabar Coast illustrate a broader, trans-oceanic history of the evolution of Islam across monsoon Asia. This history is told through four spaces that are examined in their physical manifestations as well as symbolic meanings: the Port, the Mosque, the Palace, and the Sea Cover -- Half-title -- Series information -- Title page -- Copyright information -- Dedication -- Table of contents -- List of Illustrations -- Acknowledgements -- Note on Dates, Weights, Places, and Transliterations -- Introduction -- Monsoon Islam -- Historiography -- Setting: The Land of Pepper -- Period: Shifting Frontiers of Trade and Politics -- Note on Sources -- Outline of the Book -- 1 The Port -- Ports and Networks -- Brides of the Sea: Malabar Ports in Indian Ocean Trade -- Muslim Traders on the Malabar Coast -- The Business of Trade -- Trade, Trust, and Commercial Culture -- The Business of Friendship: Partners and Agents -- Inter-Denominational Partnerships and the Use of Credit Notes -- Merchant Princes of Malabar: Na¯khuda¯s and Sha¯hbandars -- 2 The Mosque -- The Convert King and the Making of a Religious Class -- Malabar's 'Ulama¯' in the Making of Monsoon Islam -- Monsoon Mosques -- Monsoon Jiha¯d -- Mosques as Emblems of Religious Conflict -- Inspiring the Faithful to Defend a City of Infidels: Malabar and the Struggle for Jiha¯d -- Martyrdom as Cultural Ideal of Malabar's Muslims -- Emergence of an Indigenized Malabari 'Ulama¯' -- 3 The Palace -- Muslims and the Rise of Calicut -- Conversion -- Sons and Daughters: Intermarriage and Conversion -- Caste and Conversion -- Servants of God: Slavery and Conversion -- Muslims within the State -- Muslims against the State -- 4 The Sea -- Commercial Networks: The Pepper Trail -- Malabar's Pepper Trade in the Western Indian Ocean -- Malabar's Pepper Trade in the Eastern Indian Ocean -- Muslim Pepper Networks in the Sixteenth Century -- Religious Networks: Paths of the Scholar and the Sufi -- Ocean of Knowledge: Scholarly Networks -- Saints and Shrines: Sufi Networks -- Political Networks: Patronage across the Indian Ocean -- From Aden with Gold: Rasulid Stipends In the Name of the Lord: Invoking the Ruler across the Indian Ocean -- A Tale of Two Mosques: Calicut and the Timurid Connection -- Routes and Rulers: Malabar at the Crossroads -- Conclusion -- Bibliography -- Primary Sources -- Secondary Literature -- Index |
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| Item Description: | Includes bibliographical references and index |
| ISBN: | 1108424384 |