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Book Reviews BOOK REVIEWS Risso, Patricia, Merchants & Faith: Muslim Commerce and Culture in the Indian Ocean (Boulder: Westview Press, 1996), xi + 152 pp. £40.95/558.00 ISBN 0 8133 1682 0; £11.50/$16.95 ISBN 0 8133 8911 9 (paper) The history of the Indian Ocean is one of the areas in which an essen- tially Eurocentric historiography is being reassessed. Risso's main con- cern is the "intersection of Islamic and Indian Ocean histories" and her prime purpose is "to illustrate relationships among ideology, culture and economics." In pursuing her course she illuminates three substantial issues: the relationship between the Indian Ocean shore and the empires of the hinterland; the role played by Western Europeans in the Indian Ocean region up to the mid-nineteenth century; and the particular advantages attendant on being a Muslim merchant. In the process she does her bit toward dismantling the edifice of Eurocentric history. Risso begins with the emergence of Islam in the Hijaz in the seventh century and the subsequent creation in the Arab empire of a huge focus of trade and consumption linking the Mediterranean basin through Asia as far as China. She goes on to illustrate the further expansion of Muslim activity between 1050 http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Journal of Early Modern History Brill

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Journal of Early Modern History , Volume 2 (2): 210 – Jan 1, 1998

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Publisher
Brill
Copyright
© 1998 Koninklijke Brill NV, Leiden, The Netherlands
ISSN
1385-3783
eISSN
1570-0658
DOI
10.1163/157006598X00180
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BOOK REVIEWS Risso, Patricia, Merchants & Faith: Muslim Commerce and Culture in the Indian Ocean (Boulder: Westview Press, 1996), xi + 152 pp. £40.95/558.00 ISBN 0 8133 1682 0; £11.50/$16.95 ISBN 0 8133 8911 9 (paper) The history of the Indian Ocean is one of the areas in which an essen- tially Eurocentric historiography is being reassessed. Risso's main con- cern is the "intersection of Islamic and Indian Ocean histories" and her prime purpose is "to illustrate relationships among ideology, culture and economics." In pursuing her course she illuminates three substantial issues: the relationship between the Indian Ocean shore and the empires of the hinterland; the role played by Western Europeans in the Indian Ocean region up to the mid-nineteenth century; and the particular advantages attendant on being a Muslim merchant. In the process she does her bit toward dismantling the edifice of Eurocentric history. Risso begins with the emergence of Islam in the Hijaz in the seventh century and the subsequent creation in the Arab empire of a huge focus of trade and consumption linking the Mediterranean basin through Asia as far as China. She goes on to illustrate the further expansion of Muslim activity between 1050

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Journal of Early Modern HistoryBrill

Published: Jan 1, 1998

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