A Sea of Debt
Law and Economic Life in the Western Indian Ocean, 1780–1950
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 19903773 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Fahad Ahmad Bishara (0000-0001-9965-2540, University of Virginia, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2017 |
| Publication date | 2017-03-10 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | BOOK |
| Venue | Sea of Debt (SOURCE_BOOK) |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1017/9781316659083 |
| OpenAlex | W4253709721 |
| Open Library | OL34741817M |
| ISBN | 9781316659083 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 74 |
| References cited | 134 |
In this innovative legal history of economic life in the Western Indian Ocean, Bishara examines the transformations of Islamic law and Islamicate commercial practices during the emergence of modern capitalism in the region. In this time of expanding commercial activity, a mélange of Arab, Indian, Swahili and Baloch merchants, planters, jurists, judges, soldiers and seamen forged the frontiers of a shared world. The interlinked worlds of trade and politics that these actors created, the shared commercial grammars and institutions that they developed and the spatial and socio-economic mobilities they engaged in endured until at least the middle of the twentieth century. This major study examines the Indian Ocean from Oman to India and East Africa over an extended period of time, drawing together the histories of commerce, law and empire in a sophisticated, original and richly textured history of capitalism in the Islamic world
Ancient history · Archaeology · Art · Business · Capitalism · Debt · Economic history · Economics · Economy · Empire · Geography · Islam · Ottoman empire · Period (music) · Political science · Politics · Sharia · Swahili · Colonialism, slavery, and trade · Global Maritime and Colonial Histories · History · Islamic Studies and History · Law · Commerce · Economic conditions · India · Indian ocean region · Law and economics · politics and government
Surveillance in transit
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The Gulf Migrant Archives in Kerala
The Limits of the Caravan Trade
Rise of the Coastal Consumer
An Enslaved Credit Market
Back to Asia? South Asia and the Arabian Peninsula
Imagining the Post-colonial Lawyer
Migration Patterns and Economic Interconnections in the Indian Ocean during the Nineteenth Century
Port labour, global commodities, and material skill development
Encountering Domestic Slavery
The Ivory Trade and Political Power in Nineteenth-Century East Africa
Making Identity on the Swahili Coast
Judicial Practice as Islamic Law
Port and hinterland in the longue durée
Introduction to Latin American Studies and the Humanities
Pretenders, entrepreneurs, and mercurians
Strongmen and informal diplomats
Azeri networks through thick and thin
Food is Freedom
Traders to Tycoons
Cultural Cousins
Th Century British Imperialism and the Transregional Geopolitics of an Omani Patricide
Mind the Gap
The Double Life of Property
Sovereignty on the move
Crosscurrents
The Sultan of Muscat in Vermont
Histories of law and economic life in the Islamic world
Languages of Law
When Men Get No Share
Ripples of Partition
Enclosing the Seas
Circulation and Capitalism in a Maritime Bazaar
Oceanic Mobility and the Empire of the Pass System
Intertwined Itineraries
Lost in Translation”
Global Currents and the Transformation of Space in Indian Ocean Africa
The languages of Indian Ocean studies
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Imagining Oceans of Law
Spheres of Life and Scales of Action among Gujarati and Omani Merchants in the African Great Lakes Region, 1920s–1930s
Ambivalent Relationships
Studying the Asian Ocean-Sea
Sovereignty and Maritime Practices in the Western Indian Ocean, 1700–1900
Arabia adrift
The Ottoman Sarraf, Public Debt, and Usury Laws
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The Sailing Scribes
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The Archaeology of Social Transformation in Rural Zanzibar, Tanzania, from the Eleventh Through Nineteenth Centuries CE
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Introduction
Sourcing and shipping museum objects from East Africa to the Smithsonian, 1887–1891
Townlands of the Swahili Coast
Constitutionalism of the Dispossessed
Assembling Islamic practice in a Swahili urban landscape, 11th-16th centuries
Clientage, debt, and the integrative orientation of non-elites on the East African Swahili coast
Tasting Tears at the Sharjah Biennial
Hijacked
Homeland Is Where the Soul Resides
Maritime temporalities and capitalist development
Ottoman Justice and Political Economy of Empires
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Kuwait's Modernity in Crisis
Inter-Asian Concepts for Mobile Societies
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Plantation slavery on the east coast of Africa
Feasts and riot
From slaves to squatters
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Peasant Labour and Colonial Capital
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Law and Colonial Cultures
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Notes on the theory of the actor-network
A Search for Sovereignty
Economic Action and Social Structure
The Gift
Translating Colonial Fortunes
Shari'ah Courts and Shari'ah Records
Avoiding Ribā
The Two Husbands of Vera Tiscenko
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Afterword
Circulations of Law
Genealogy in Medieval Muslim Societies
On the Global Repercussions of East African Consumerism
Indigenous Capital and Imperial Expansion
River of Dark Dreams
Republic of Capital
At the Origins of the Western Commenda
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The elephant and the whale
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Tanganyika Memories
Narrative of Voyages to Explore the Shores of Africa, Arabia, and Madagascar
The Travels of Law
The Career and Legend of Vasco da Gama
Merchants And Faith
Introduction
Stages of Capital
Sufis and Scholars of the Sea
Histories of city and state in the Persian Gulf
A Hundred Horizons
On Trans-Saharan Trails
Indian Ocean Studies and the ‘new thalassology’
Slaves, Spices and Ivory in Zanzibar
Correspondence is equal to half a meeting
Economic Performance and Economic Growth in the Early Islamic World
Mercantile Networks, Port Cities, and “Pirate” States
The Circulation of Men and Credit
The Bondsman's New Clothes
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Writing travels
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Peasants, Famine and the State in Colonial Western India
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Sultan in Oman
Empires of the Monsoon
| Unique citing works | 74 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 8,22 |
| Citation span | 2017 - 2026 (10) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 72 |