Dr Christopher Bahl (Book launch) – Mobile Manuscripts: Arabic Learning across the Early Modern Western Indian Ocean
In 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 ûfteenth to the seventeenth centuries. From Egypt to the Hijaz, Yemen and further on to Gujarat and the Deccan,…