The Persian Gulf in Modern Times: People, Ports, and History

Front Matter....Pages i-xi
Introduction....Pages 1-20
Front Matter....Pages 21-21
Rethinking the History of Port Cities in the Gulf....Pages 23-46
Narrative and the Historian’s Craft in the Arabic Historiography of the Gulf....Pages 47-72
The Historiography of the Persian Gulf: A Survey of the Nineteenth- and Twentieth-Century Persian Sources....Pages 73-102
Narrating the Gulf: Literary Evidence for History....Pages 103-127
Front Matter....Pages 129-129
The Rise and Fall of Port Cities in the Persian Gulf....Pages 131-152
Muscat as a Port City....Pages 153-172
Bushehr: Southern Gateway to Iran....Pages 173-197
Inside a Gulf Port: The Dynamics of Urban Life in Pre-Oil Kuwait....Pages 199-228
Front Matter....Pages 229-229
Indian Communities in the Persian Gulf, c. 1500–1947....Pages 231-266
The Baloch as an Ethnic Group in the Persian Gulf Region....Pages 267-297
“Purity and Confusion”: The Hawala between Persians and Arabs in the Contemporary Gulf....Pages 299-326
The African Presence in Eastern Arabia....Pages 327-350
Identity Transformations of African Communities in Iran....Pages 351-376
Back Matter....Pages 377-393