The Making of the Indo-Islamic World: C.700-1800 CE (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9781108417747)

In a new accessible narrative, Andre Wink presents his major reinterpretation of the long-term history of India and the Indian Ocean region from the perspective of world history and geography. Situating the history of the Indianized territories of South Asia and Southeast Asia within the wider history of the Islamic world, he argues that the long-term development and transformation of Indo-Islamic history is best understood as the outcome of a major shift in the relationship between the sedentary peasant societies of the river plains, the nomads of the great Saharasian arid zone and the seafaring populations of the Indian Ocean. This revisionist work redraws the Asian past as the outcome of the fusion of these different types of settled and mobile societies, placing geography and environment at the centre of human history.

Author: André Wink
ISBN-10: 1108417744
ISBN-13: 9781108417747
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Language: English
Published: 08/06/2020
Pages: 308
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.30lbs
Size: 9.12h x 6.35w x 0.75d

Review Citation(s):
Choice 05/01/2021