Arab Seafaring: In the Indian Ocean in Ancient and Early Medieval Times (Expanded Edition)

Perhaps I'm writing this review without considering how important this work was when it was first published. For the contemporary reader, there's little in this book which someone interested in Indian Ocean maritime history probably has not yet come across. The final chapter does make some good points though.Overall, well worth the read, even if it's a tad "out-dated".

This is a really interesting book on a subject that is hard to find in this country. However I have been more than little bit disappointed to find that he uses nearly exclusively European and American books and archeologists as sources. What are the chances that absolutely no academic work on their own history has been done by Arabs?

This is the story of when the Indian Ocean became an Arab lake back in medieval times. Fascinating.

The notes are very old and kind of out-of-date. This book is written in 1950's... so...

thanks for item as promised

Thanks for sending this book in time for my class assignments. It was an interesting read and I appreciate your promptness.

This classic masterpiece deserved reprinted more than anything else and it is done with an excellent expansion, especially on narrated accounts of travellers and geographers of the time. Inside you'll find an interesting correlation proposed between Islamic trading activities and their mastery of the Indian Ocean, its height and downfall until the 1000 AD. Buy it, especially if you're an Indonesian Muslim.

all as specified!

I was expecting the new comments to be more informative and uptodated.