Buch, Englisch, 75 Seiten, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 229 mm, Gewicht: 313 g
Buch, Englisch, 75 Seiten, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 229 mm, Gewicht: 313 g
Reihe: Elements in the Global Middle Ages
ISBN: 978-1-009-49508-0
Verlag: Cambridge University Press
This Element discusses a medieval African urban society as a product of interactions among African communities who inhabited the region between 100 BCE and 500 CE. It deviates from standard approaches that credit urbanism and state in Africa to non-African agents. East Africa, then and now, was part of the broader world of the Indian Ocean. Globalism coincided with the political and economic transformations that occurred during the Tang-Sung-Yuan-Ming and Islamic Dynastic times, 600-1500 CE. Positioned as the gateway into and out of eastern Africa, the Swahili coast became a site through which people, inventions, and innovations bi-directionally migrated, were adopted, and evolved. Swahili peoples' agency and unique characteristics cannot be seen only through Islam's prism. Instead, their unique character is a consequence of social and economic interactions of actors along the coast, inland, and beyond the Indian Ocean.
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Preface: Swahili Worlds: A Medieval African Urban Civilization; 1. Foundations of a Medieval African Urban Civilization; 2. The Rise of the Medieval Swahili State; 3. What Was the Medieval East African World Like?; 4. Global Connections; 5. Asian Connections; 6. Who Were the Medieval East Africans?; Appendices.
