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The Portuguese off the South Arabian coast : Ḥaḍramī chronicles : with yemeni and European accounts of Dutch pirates off Mocha in the seventeenth century / by R. B. Serjeant.

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: Oxford : Clarendon Press, 1963.Description: x, 233 p. : illus., maps (part fold.) ; 23 cmSubject(s): LOC classification:
  • DS247.A14 S47 1963
Contents:
INTRODUCTION - A. The Red Sea and Indian Ocean prior to the Portuguese : a Politico-Economic Survey - i. The Red Sea Lands - ii. The East African Coast, al-Sawahil - iii. Hurmuz and the Persian Gulf - iv. Western India - B. The Portuguese in the Indian Ocean : An Outline of Events of the Tenth/Sixteenth Century relevant to the Hadrami Chronicles -- SOUTH-WEST ARABIA : HISTORICAL AND ECONOMIC BACKGROUND - i. Coast, Sea, and People - ii. Al-Shihr in the Portuguese Period - iii. Kathiri Policy vis-à-vis Portuguese and Turk - iv. Jewish, Indian, and African Traders in South Arabia - v. Some Effects of the Portuguese Blockade on Trade - vi. Sources and Manuscripts - vii. Style -- HAPRAMI CHRONICLERS ON PORTUGUESE ACTIVITIES, A.D. 1498-1577 (904-984 H.) -- DUTCH PIRATES OFF MOCHA IN THE SEVENTEENTH CENTURY - i. General - ii. Sources and Manuscripts -- ACCOUNTS BY AL-DJARMŪZI AND BY EUROPEAN WRITERS -- APPENDIXES - i. A Turkish Gun from Aden - ii. Arabic Terms for Shipping - iii. Money and Coinage the Tenth/Sixteenth Century and Later in Southern Arabia - iv. Badr Bu Țuwairiķ and the Mahrah in Legend and History - v. Socotra - vi. The Mameluke Fortifications at Jeddah - vii. Portuguese Inscriptions from Merani Fort, Muscat.
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INTRODUCTION - A. The Red Sea and Indian Ocean prior to the Portuguese : a Politico-Economic Survey - i. The Red Sea Lands - ii. The East African Coast, al-Sawahil - iii. Hurmuz and the Persian Gulf - iv. Western India - B. The Portuguese in the Indian Ocean : An Outline of Events of the Tenth/Sixteenth Century relevant to the Hadrami Chronicles -- SOUTH-WEST ARABIA : HISTORICAL AND ECONOMIC BACKGROUND - i. Coast, Sea, and People - ii. Al-Shihr in the Portuguese Period - iii. Kathiri Policy vis-à-vis Portuguese and Turk - iv. Jewish, Indian, and African Traders in South Arabia - v. Some Effects of the Portuguese Blockade on Trade - vi. Sources and Manuscripts - vii. Style -- HAPRAMI CHRONICLERS ON PORTUGUESE ACTIVITIES, A.D. 1498-1577 (904-984 H.) -- DUTCH PIRATES OFF MOCHA IN THE SEVENTEENTH CENTURY - i. General - ii. Sources and Manuscripts -- ACCOUNTS BY AL-DJARMŪZI AND BY EUROPEAN WRITERS -- APPENDIXES - i. A Turkish Gun from Aden - ii. Arabic Terms for Shipping - iii. Money and Coinage the Tenth/Sixteenth Century and Later in Southern Arabia - iv. Badr Bu Țuwairiķ and the Mahrah in Legend and History - v. Socotra - vi. The Mameluke Fortifications at Jeddah - vii. Portuguese Inscriptions from Merani Fort, Muscat.

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