Year of manufacture: 2008
Author: Dionisius A. Agius
Genre: History of shipbuilding / History of sea trade / History of economy / History of Islam / Research
Publisher: Brill Academic Publishers
English language
Series: Handbook of oriental studies
ISBN: 0169-9423; 978 90 04 15863 4
Format: PDF
Number of pages: 505

Drawing on Arabic literary sources, iconographic evidence and archaeological findings, the author analyzes trade, port cities, shipbuilding, navigation, ship typology and their historical development in the western Indian Ocean. The attention of the author is focused mainly on the medieval Islamic period, but also affects earlier sources.

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