{"product_id":"mobile-manuscripts-arabic-learning-across-the-early-modern-western-indian-ocean-hardback-9781009359726","title":"Mobile Manuscripts; Arabic Learning across the Early Modern Western Indian Ocean (Hardback) 9781009359726","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eMobile Manuscripts\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cfont size=\"5\"\u003eArabic Learning across the Early Modern Western Indian Ocean\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eBahl traces the spread of Arabic learning in South Asia from the perspective of the written objects that traversed the western Indian Ocean.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eChristopher D. Bahl (Author)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9781009359726, Cambridge University Press\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eHardback, published 6 February 2025\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e340 pages\u003cbr\u003e23.5 x 15.9 x 2.5 cm, 0.63 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e'With admirable analytical clarity, Christopher Bahl develops methods for tracing the circulation of Arabic books between India, Arabia, Egypt, and beyond. Drawing on some 600 manuscripts, he reconstructs a region built on 'entangled' texts in motion. This is a milestone work in the growing literature on Arabic in the Indian Ocean.' Nile Green, UCLA\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eIn this essential new work, Christopher D. Bahl departs from the established historiography on trade, shipping, and pilgrimage to argue for the emergence of Arabic learning as a crucial form of transoceanic mobility from the fifteenth to the seventeenth centuries. From Egypt to the Hijaz, Yemen and further on to Gujarat and the Deccan, networks of manuscript circulation created shared social and cultural spaces across the early modern western Indian Ocean, in which South Asia was a key node of connection. Largely unstudied Arabic manuscripts from collections in eight different archives offer a new source base to explore the region as a hub of Arabic scholarly culture, while marginalia and notes provide an empirical treasure trove for the study of social spaces and cultural practices. This is the first book to trace these truly transoceanic encounters between scholars, sultans, scribes, readers, and librarians.\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eIntroduction\u003cbr\u003e 1. The prosopographical world of maritime mobilities\u003cbr\u003e 2. The Royal Library of Bijapur: the emergence of a textual entrepot\u003cbr\u003e 3. Arabic philology in early modern South Asia\u003cbr\u003e 4. Mobile Arabic learning from Egypt to the Deccan\u003cbr\u003e 5. From the Deccan to Istanbul: a transoceanic community of readers\u003cbr\u003e Conclusion: Arabic learning across the early modern western Indian Ocean world\u003cbr\u003e Bibliography\u003cbr\u003e Appendix\u003cbr\u003e Index.\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eSubject Areas: General \u0026amp; world history [\u003ca title=\"See our other books on General \u0026amp; world history\" href=\"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/search?q=%22General%20\u0026amp;%20world%20history%20%5BHBG%5D%22\"\u003eHBG\u003c\/a\u003e]\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"Cambridge University Press","offers":[{"title":"Brand New","offer_id":52413990961432,"sku":"9781009359726","price":85.26,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0730\/2037\/5320\/files\/9781009359726i.jpg?v=1784334098","url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/mobile-manuscripts-arabic-learning-across-the-early-modern-western-indian-ocean-hardback-9781009359726","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}