Storytelling, Seafaring, and Travel Writing

The Persian Gulf and the Indian Ocean
Erscheinungsjahr 2025
ISBN: 978-90-04-73685-6
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, Band 224, 140 Seiten, Format (B × H): 155 mm x 235 mm

Reihe: Islamic History and Civilization

Storytelling, Seafaring, and Travel Writing advances research on Islamic travel writing, with a particular concentration on the Persian Gulf and Indian Ocean. Ranging from the late antiquity to the present, this collection explores how storytelling, travelogues, and seafaring narratives have contributed to cultural discourses and intellectual traditions. By examining Arab seafaring and travel from new angles and through cross-cultural and interdisciplinary lenses, these essays challenge conventional interpretation. Essential for scholars and researchers in Islamic studies, philosophy, literary analysis, and cultural history, it illustrates how real and imagined narratives have profoundly influenced cross-cultural exchanges and the construction of moral and cultural paradigms over time.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Weitere Mitwirkende

Alshaar, Nuha

La Sala, Beate Ulrike

Wilmsen, David

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Mentalitäts- und Sozialgeschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Kultur- und Ideengeschichte

Über Autor(innen)

Nuha Alshaar (PhD. University of Cambridge) she has taught Arabic and Islamic Studies at the American University of Sharjah, the Institute of Ismaili Studies, and the University of Lisbon. She published Ethics in Islam: Friendship in the Political Thought of al-Tawhidi and His Contemporaries (2015); co-authored On God and the World: An Arabic Critical Edition and English Translation of Epistles 49–51 (OUP, 2019). She edited Muslim Sicily (EUP, 2024) and the Qur'an and Adab (OUP, 2017).

Beate Ulrike La Sala, Ph.D. in Philosophy (Freie Universität Berlin), is currently a research data consultant at Goethe Universität Frankfurt. Her research focuses on the shared intellectual traditions of classical Arabic, Hebrew, and Latin philosophy.

David Wilmsen, Ph.D. Arabic language and linguistics, University of Michigan, has spent more than thirty years in the Arabophone world, teaching Arabic language, Arabic linguistics, and Arab culture topics. He now lives in Amman, Jordan, pursuing research and writing about Arabic.