In the Wake of the Dhow The Arabian Gulf and Oman
تاريخ النشر: 01/01/2001
الناشر: Ithaca press
نبذة الناشر:The Arabian dhow is one of the most evocative images of the Gulf, the Red Sea and the Indian Ocean and through the centuries it has served a variety of purposes, from the cargo dhows representing a flourishing trade network which stretched from the Mediterranean to China from the sixteenth ...to the eighteenth centuries, to the hundreds of pearling dhows actively employed in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, carrying sailors diving for the finest pearls. Also, in times of war, dhows became magnificent fighting vessels and were associated with the piracy so prevalent in these waters.
The product of over two hundred interviews with shipwrights and seamen in the Arabian Gulf and Oman over a period of nine years, this book compares firsthand information with existing literature on the dhow and Arab seafaring of the past seventy years. Documenting the dhow as an important element in the prosperity of the area prior to the discovery of oil, this research discusses the geographical conditions and historic-linguistic background of each dhow-type, the life-pattern in its role as cargo, pearl-diving, pirate and slaving vessel and also how the seafaring communities interacted with the dhow world.
Dionisius A. Agius is Reader in Arabic and the Medieval Mediterranean at the University of Leeds. His research is mainly on the comparative and historical aspects of Arabic language, society and culture, focusing particularly on the semantics of material-cultural terminology. إقرأ المزيد