The graves of Tarim : genealogy and mobility across the Indian Ocean / Engseng Ho.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Ho, Engseng, 1961-

Series:

California world history library ; 3.

The California world history library ; 3

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Ḥaḍramawt (Yemen : Province)--History.

Ḥaḍramawt (Yemen : Province).

Ḥaḍramawt (Yemen : Province)--Emigration and immigration--History.

Tarīm (Yemen)--Antiquities.

Tarīm (Yemen).

Physical Description:

1 online resource (409 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Berkeley : University of California Press, c2006.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

The Graves of Tarim narrates the movement of an old diaspora across the Indian Ocean over the past five hundred years. Ranging from Arabia to India and Southeast Asia, Engseng Ho explores the transcultural exchanges-in kinship and writing-that enabled Hadrami Yemeni descendants of the Muslim prophet Muhammad to become locals in each of the three regions yet remain cosmopolitans with vital connections across the ocean. At home throughout the Indian Ocean, diasporic Hadramis engaged European empires in surprising ways across its breadth, beyond the usual territorial confines of colonizer and colonized. A work of both anthropology and history, this book brilliantly demonstrates how the emerging fields of world history and transcultural studies are coming together to provide groundbreaking ways of studying religion, diaspora, and empire. Ho interprets biographies, family histories, chronicles, pilgrimage manuals and religious law as the unified literary output of a diaspora that hybridizes both texts and persons within a genealogy of Prophetic descent. By using anthropological concepts to read Islamic texts in Arabic and Malay, he demonstrates the existence of a hitherto unidentified canon of diasporic literature. His supple conceptual framework and innovative use of documentary and field evidence are elegantly combined to present a vision of this vital world region beyond the histories of trade and European empire.

Contents:

Front matter

Contents

Illustrations

Acknowledgments

Note on Dates, Abbreviations, and Transliteration

Preface

1. The Society of the Absent

2. Geography, a Pathway through History

3. A Resolute Localism

Conclusion to Part I: Making Tarim a Place of Return

4. Ecumenical Islam in an Oceanic World

5. Hybrid Texts: Genealogy as Light and as Law

6. Creole Kinship: Genealogy as Gift

Conclusion to Part II: Local Cosmopolitans

7. Return as Pilgrimage

8. Repatriation

9. The View from the Verandah

10. Evictions

Concluding Remarks: Names beyond Nations

Bibliography

Index

Notes:

"A Philip E. Lilienthal book in Asian studies"--P. [4] of cover.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 329-357) and index.

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ISBN:

9786612771828

9780520938694

0520938690

9781282771826

1282771825

9780520904033

0520904036

OCLC:

476049757