Middle Eastern Studies, Historical Studies, and Asian Studies Presents
The Voyage of the Fateh Al-Khair:
The Indian Ocean and Other Arab Worlds
Fahad Bishara (University of Virginia)
Wednesday, March 17, 2021
Online Event
2:00 pm – 3:30 pm EDT/GMT-4
2:00 pm – 3:30 pm EDT/GMT-4
In this talk, Fahad Bishara charts out an Indian Ocean microhistory grounded in the voyages of a particular Arab dhow - the Fateh Al-Khayr - and the writings of its captain. It is from the deck of the dhow, he argues, that we can see the limits of political and metageographical categories like the Middle East, and we can begin to write the histories of other Arab worlds.
Fahad Ahmad Bishara is the Rouhollah Ramazani Associate Professor of Arabian Peninsula and Gulf Studies at the University of Virginia. His first book, A Sea of Debt: Law and Economic Life in the Western Indian Ocean, 1780-1950 (Cambridge University Press, 2017), won the J. Willard Hurst Prize (awarded by the Law and Society Association), the Jerry Bentley Prize (awarded by the World History Association), and the Peter Gonville Stein Book Award (given by the American Society for Legal History).
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Time: 2:00 pm – 3:30 pm EDT/GMT-4
Location: Online Event
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