IMC 2022: Sessions
Session 1323: Borders in Medieval Islam, II: The Mediterranean Sea and the Indian Ocean
Wednesday 6 July 2022, 16.30-18.00
| Organiser: | Andrew Marsham, Faculty of Asian & Middle Eastern Studies, University of Cambridge |
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| Moderator/Chair: | Amira Bennison, Faculty of Asian & Middle Eastern Studies, University of Cambridge |
| Paper 1323-a | Cotton Roads: Crossing the Indian Ocean (Language: English) Index terms: Archaeology - General, Economics - Trade, Islamic and Arabic Studies, Maritime and Naval Studies |
| Paper 1323-b | Passing Ships, or Frogs around a Pond: Interactions between Ifriqiya and Southern Italy in the Early Middle Ages (Language: English) Index terms: Byzantine Studies, Historiography - Modern Scholarship, Islamic and Arabic Studies, Maritime and Naval Studies |
| Paper 1323-c | Were There Strategic Considerations in the 7th-Century Arabian Conquests? (Language: English) Index terms: Islamic and Arabic Studies, Maritime and Naval Studies, Military History, Politics and Diplomacy |
| Abstract | The Mediterranean Sea and the Indian Ocean were two of the main maritime spaces between the medieval central Islamic lands and their non-Muslim neighbours. Gajewska shows how the Indian Ocean cotton trade crossed political, cultural, and religious borders, tying the western Indian Ocean into a network whose significance remains mostly unexplored. Likewise, surprisingly little is known about the interactions between communities in North Africa and Italy in the early Middle Ages; Goodson suggests means for analysis and models for understanding these relationships. Marsham explores the Levant and the Mediterranean as spaces for strategic thinking on the part of the Umayyad elite. |