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Monsoon Islam : trade and faith on the medieval Malabar Coast / Sebastian R Prange

By: Prange, Sebastian RContributor(s): Prange, Sebastian RMaterial type: Text

TextPublisher number: :Zafaa Books & Distributors | :313/56F 49A, Anand Nagar Inderlok Delhi 110035Series: Cambridge oceanic historiesPublication details: New York : Cambridge University Press, 2018Description: xvi, 344p : illustrations, map ; 24 cmISBN: 9781108438148Subject(s): Religion | Other religions | Islam, Bábism and Baháʼí Faith | Islam -- India -- Malabar Coast -- History | Malabar, Côte de (Inde) -- Commerce -- Histoire | Islam | India -- Malabar CoastDDC classification: 297.095 PRA

Contents:

Introduction : the first Indian Muslim -- The port -- The mosque -- The palace -- The sea -- Cnclusion : monsoon Muslims.

Summary: Between the twelfth and sixteenth centuries, a distinct form of Islamic thought and practice developed among Muslim trading communities of the Indian Ocean. Sebastian R. Prange argues that this 'Monsoon Islam' was shaped by merchants not sultans, forged by commercial imperatives rather than in battle, and defined by the reality of Muslims living within non-Muslim societies. Focusing on India's Malabar Coast, the much-fabled 'land of pepper', Prange provides a case study of how Monsoon Islam developed in response to concrete economic, socio-religious, and political challenges. Because communities of Muslim merchants across the Indian Ocean were part of shared commercial, scholarly, and political networks, developments on the Malabar Coast illustrate a broader, trans-oceanic history of the evolution of Islam across monsoon Asia. This history is told through four spaces that are examined in their physical manifestations as well as symbolic meanings: the Port, the Mosque, the Palace, and the Sea.

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Introduction : the first Indian Muslim --
The port --
The mosque --
The palace --
The sea --
Cnclusion : monsoon Muslims.

Between the twelfth and sixteenth centuries, a distinct form of Islamic thought and practice developed among Muslim trading communities of the Indian Ocean. Sebastian R. Prange argues that this 'Monsoon Islam' was shaped by merchants not sultans, forged by commercial imperatives rather than in battle, and defined by the reality of Muslims living within non-Muslim societies. Focusing on India's Malabar Coast, the much-fabled 'land of pepper', Prange provides a case study of how Monsoon Islam developed in response to concrete economic, socio-religious, and political challenges. Because communities of Muslim merchants across the Indian Ocean were part of shared commercial, scholarly, and political networks, developments on the Malabar Coast illustrate a broader, trans-oceanic history of the evolution of Islam across monsoon Asia. This history is told through four spaces that are examined in their physical manifestations as well as symbolic meanings: the Port, the Mosque, the Palace, and the Sea.

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