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The Persian Gulf in History
Edited by
Lawrence G.Potter
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Contents
List of Tables v
List of Maps and Figures vi
Acknowledgments vii
Note on Transliteration viii
Introduction 1
Lawrence G. Potter
PART I: GULF HISTORY AND SOCIETY
1 The Archaeology and Early History of the Persian Gulf 27
D. T. Potts
2 The Persian Gulf in Late Antiquity: The Sasanian Era
(200–700 C.E.) 57
Touraj Daryaee
3 The Gulf in the Early Islamic Period: The Contribution 71
of Archaeology to Regional History
Donald Whitcomb
4 The Kings of Hormuz: From the Beginning until the
Arrival of the Portuguese 89
Mohammad Bagher Vosoughi
5 Boom and Bust: The Port of Basra in the Sixteenth and
Seventeenth Centuries 105
Rudi Matthee
6 The Arab Presence on the Iranian Coast of the Persian Gulf 129
Shahnaz Razieh Nadjmabadi
7 Gulf Society: An Anthropological View of the
Khalijis—Their Evolution and Way of Life 147
William O. Beeman
PART II: THE GULF AND THE INDIAN OCEAN
8 The Cultural Unity of the Gulf and the Indian
Ocean: A Longue Durée Historical Perspective 163
M. Redha Bhacker
9 The Persian Gulf and the Swahili Coast: A History of
Acculturation over the Longue Durée 173
Abdul Sheriff
10 India and the Gulf: Encounters from the Mid-Sixteenth
to the Mid-Twentieth Centuries 189
Patricia Risso
PART III: THE ROLE OF OUTSIDERS
11 The Portuguese Presence in the Persian Gulf 207
João Teles e Cunha
12 Dutch Relations with the Persian Gulf 235
Willem Floor
13 The Ottoman Role in the Gulf 261
Frederick Anscombe
14 Britain and the Gulf: At the Periphery of Empire 277
J. E. Peterson
15 The United States and the Persian Gulf in the
Twentieth Century 295
Gary Sick
Contributors 311
Index 317
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