Table of Contents
Introduction, Lawrence G. Potter PART I: THE HISTORIOGRAPHY OF THE PERSIAN GULF 1. Rethinking the History of Port Cities in the Gulf, Nelida Fuccaro 2. Narrative and the Historian's Craft in the Arabic Historiography of the Gulf, Fahad Ahmad Bishara 3. The Historiography of the Persian Gulf: A Survey of the 19th and 20th Century Persian Sources, Gholam Reza Vatandoust 4. Narrating the Gulf: Literary Evidence for History, Muhsin al-Musawi PART II: PORT CITIES AND LITTORAL SOCIETY 5. The Rise and Fall of Port Cities in the Persian Gulf, Lawrence G. Potter 6. Muscat as a Port City, J. E. Peterson 7. Bushehr: Southern Gateway to Iran, Willem Floor 8. Inside a Gulf Port: The Dynamics of Urban Life in Pre-Oil Kuwait, Farah Al-Nakib PART III: PEOPLES IN THE GULF 9. Indian Communities in the Persian Gulf, c. 1500–1947, James Onley 10. The Baluch as an Ethnic Group in the Persian Gulf Region, Carina Jahani 11. 'Purity and Confusion': The Hawala between Persians and Arabs in the Contemporary Gulf, Ahmed al-Dailami 12. The African Presence in Eastern Arabia, Matthew S. Hopper 13. Identity Transformations of African Communities in Iran, Behnaz A. Mirzai