1. Fauvelle, Francois-Xavier. The Golden Rhinoceros: Histories of the African Middle Ages. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2021, Chs. 15, 19, 21, 22, 34.
2. Bang, Anne. “Cosmolitanism Colonised? Three Cases from Zanzibar, 1890-1920.” In Struggling with History: Islam and Cosmopolitanism in the Western Indian Ocean, edited by Edward Simpson and Kai Kresse, 167–88. New York: Columbia University Press, 2008.
3. Ho, Engseng. The Graves of Tarim: Genealogy and Mobility across the Indian Ocean. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2006, Chs. 1, 4, Part II Conclusion.
Optional:
Green, Nile. “Saints, Rebels, and Booksellers: Sufis in the Cosmopolitan Western Indian Ocean, c. 1780-1920.” In Struggling with History: Islam and Cosmopolitanism in the Western Indian Ocean, edited by Kai Kresse and Edward Simpson, 125–66. New York: Columbia University Press, 2008.
1. Freamon, Bernard. “A Taxonomy of Slavery and Slave Trading in Muslim Cultures.” In Possessed by the Right Hand: The Problem of Slavery in Islamic Law and Muslim Cultures, 284–305. Leiden: Brill, 2019.
2. Khalili, Laleh. “Landside Labour.” In Sinews of War and Trade, 189–225. New York: Verso, 2020.
3. ———. “Shipboard Work.” In Sinews of War and Trade, 226–48. New York: Verso, 2020.
Optional:
Matthew S. Hopper, “Cyclones, Drought, and Slavery: Environment and Enslavement in the Western Indian Ocean, 1870s to 1920s,” in G. Bankoff & J. Christensen (eds.), Natural Hazards and Peoples in the Indian Ocean World.
Required:
- Takriti, Abdel Razzaq. Monsoon Revolution: Republicans, Sultans, and Empires in Oman, 1965-1976. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2013. Introduction, Chs. 2 and 4, (pp. 1-9, 25-48, and 84-106).
And choose one or two additional readings from the following list:
- Keshavarzian, Anang. Bazaar and State in Iran: The Politics of the Tehran Marketplace. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2007. Ch. 6 (pp. 228-270)
- Khuri-Makdisi, Ilham. “The Nahda, the Press, and the Construction and Dissemination of a Radical Worldview.” In The Eastern Mediterranean and the Making of Global Radicalism, 1860-1914, 35–59. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2020.
Popovic, Alexandre. The Revolt of African Slaves in Iraq. Princeton: Markus Wiener, 1999. Chs. 1 and 5 (pp. 9-33, 129-143).
- Wilson, Amrit. The Threat of Liberation: Imperialism and Revolution in Zanzibar. Pluto Press, 2013. Chs. 2-3 (pp. 11-46).