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Storytelling, Seafaring, and Travel Writing
The Arabian Gulf and the Indian Ocean
Series: - Islamic History and Civilization, Volume: 224
Storytelling, Seafaring, and Travel Writing advances research on Islamic travel writing, with a particular concentration on the Persian Gulf and Indian Ocean. Ranging from the late antiquity to the present, this collection explores how storytelling, travelogues, and seafaring narratives have contributed to cultural discourses and intellectual traditions. By examining Arab seafaring and travel from new angles and through cross-cultural and interdisciplinary lenses, these essays challenge conventional interpretation. Essential for scholars and researchers in Islamic studies, philosophy, literary analysis, and cultural history, it illustrates how real and imagined narratives have profoundly influenced cross-cultural exchanges and the construction of moral and cultural paradigms over time.
Nuha Alshaar (PhD. University of Cambridge), is currently the Director of the Centre for Arabic Studies and Islamic Civilizations (CASIC), AUS. She has taught Arabic and Islamic Studies at the American University of Sharjah, the Institute of Ismaili Studies, and the University of Lisbon. She published Ethics in Islam: Friendship in the Political Thought of al-TawḥīdÄ« and His Contemporaries (2015); co-authored On God and the World: An Arabic Critical Edition and English Translation of Epistles 49â51 (OUP, 2019). She edited Muslim Sicily (EUP, 2024) and the Qur'an and Adab (OUP, 2017).
Beate Ulrike La Sala, Ph.D. in Philosophy (Freie Universität Berlin), is currently a research data consultant at Goethe Universität Frankfurt. Her research focuses on the shared intellectual traditions of classical Arabic, Hebrew, and Latin philosophy.
David Wilmsen, Ph.D. Arabic language and linguistics, University of Michigan, has spent more than thirty years in the Arabophone world, teaching Arabic language, Arabic linguistics, and Arab culture topics. He now lives in Amman, Jordan, pursuing research and writing about Arabic.
Beate Ulrike La Sala, Ph.D. in Philosophy (Freie Universität Berlin), is currently a research data consultant at Goethe Universität Frankfurt. Her research focuses on the shared intellectual traditions of classical Arabic, Hebrew, and Latin philosophy.
David Wilmsen, Ph.D. Arabic language and linguistics, University of Michigan, has spent more than thirty years in the Arabophone world, teaching Arabic language, Arabic linguistics, and Arab culture topics. He now lives in Amman, Jordan, pursuing research and writing about Arabic.
Preface
Notes on Contributors
Introductory Chapter
Travel, Wonder, and Scholarship
âNuha Alshaar and David Wilmsen
The Maritime Journey of Catholicos Giwargis I (d. 680â¯CE) to the East-Arabian Island of DayrÄ«n and the âIslandsâ of Beth Qaá¹raye
âMario Kozah
Al-BarkhatÄ«âs Story of the Voyage to China in the Marvels of India
An Early Medieval Account
âDionisius A. Agius
Navigating the Heavens
AbÅ« YazÄ«d al-Bisá¹ÄmÄ«âs MiÊ¿rÄj in Early Sufi Literature
âLouise Gallorini
The Significance of Inner and Outer Travel in the Thought of Al-GhazÄlÄ«
KitÄb ÄdÄb al-safar and the KitÄb Sharḥ Ê¿ajÄʾib al-qalb
âBeate Ulrike La Sala
Hajj Thalassology and Cross-Cultural Sociometry
Perspectives from Indiaâs Arabic, Persian, and Urdu travelogues of Arabia
âMohammad Sanaullah al-Nadawi
The Single Story
Contesting the Narrative of Sea Violence in the Lower Gulf Emirates
âVictoria Penziner Hightower
Of Maps and Stories
Place-Telling in Kamila Shamsieâs Kartography
âHager Ben Driss
Index
Notes on Contributors
Introductory Chapter
Travel, Wonder, and Scholarship
âNuha Alshaar and David Wilmsen
The Maritime Journey of Catholicos Giwargis I (d. 680â¯CE) to the East-Arabian Island of DayrÄ«n and the âIslandsâ of Beth Qaá¹raye
âMario Kozah
Al-BarkhatÄ«âs Story of the Voyage to China in the Marvels of India
An Early Medieval Account
âDionisius A. Agius
Navigating the Heavens
AbÅ« YazÄ«d al-Bisá¹ÄmÄ«âs MiÊ¿rÄj in Early Sufi Literature
âLouise Gallorini
The Significance of Inner and Outer Travel in the Thought of Al-GhazÄlÄ«
KitÄb ÄdÄb al-safar and the KitÄb Sharḥ Ê¿ajÄʾib al-qalb
âBeate Ulrike La Sala
Hajj Thalassology and Cross-Cultural Sociometry
Perspectives from Indiaâs Arabic, Persian, and Urdu travelogues of Arabia
âMohammad Sanaullah al-Nadawi
The Single Story
Contesting the Narrative of Sea Violence in the Lower Gulf Emirates
âVictoria Penziner Hightower
Of Maps and Stories
Place-Telling in Kamila Shamsieâs Kartography
âHager Ben Driss
Index
This book is ideal for academic libraries, specialists, post-graduate students, and researchers in Islamic studies, philosophy, literary analysis, cultural history, and cross-cultural studies.