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The graves of Tarim : genealogy and mobility across the Indian Ocean. / Engseng. Ho.

By: Ho, EngsengContributor(s): Engseng HoMaterial type: Text

TextPublisher number: : International Book Distributors | : Flat no. 17, Prakash Apartment, 4405/2, 5 Ansari Road, Daryaganj, New Delhi.Publication details: , Berkeley : University of California Press , ©2006Description: xxvi, 379 pages : illustrations, maps :24cmISBN: 9780520244542Subject(s): Antiquities | History | Regions & Countries | Asia & the Middle East | Anthropology CulturalDDC classification: 953.35 HO

Contents:

Preface: Hadrawi society, an old diaspora I: BURIAL: The society of the absent Geography, a pathway through history A resolute localism Conclusion to Part I: Making Tarim a place of return II: GENEALOGICAL TRAVEL: Ecumenical Islam in an oceanic world Hybrid texts: genealogy as light and as law Creole kingship: genealogy as gift Conclusion to Part II: Local cosmopolitans III: RETURNS: Return as pilgrimage Repatriation The view from the verandah Evictions Concluding remarks: Names beyond nations

Summary: Ranging from Arabia to India and Southeast Asia, this work explores the transcultural exchanges that enabled Hadrami Yemeni descendants of the Muslim prophet Muhammad to become locals in each of the three regions, yet remain cosmopolitans with vital connections across the ocean

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Preface: Hadrawi society, an old diaspora
I: BURIAL: The society of the absent
Geography, a pathway through history
A resolute localism
Conclusion to Part I: Making Tarim a place of return
II: GENEALOGICAL TRAVEL: Ecumenical Islam in an oceanic world
Hybrid texts: genealogy as light and as law
Creole kingship: genealogy as gift
Conclusion to Part II: Local cosmopolitans
III: RETURNS: Return as pilgrimage
Repatriation
The view from the verandah
Evictions
Concluding remarks: Names beyond nations

Ranging from Arabia to India and Southeast Asia, this work explores the transcultural exchanges that enabled Hadrami Yemeni descendants of the Muslim prophet Muhammad to become locals in each of the three regions, yet remain cosmopolitans with vital connections across the ocean

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