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dc.contributor.authorAgius, DA
dc.date.accessioned2020-07-03T15:13:10Z
dc.date.issued2020-07-24
dc.description.abstractThe cAja-’ib al-Hind (Marvels of India) is a collection of sea stories allegedly compiled by Captain Buzurg Ibn Shahriya-r (d. 399/1009) which belongs to an Arabo-Islamic literary genre called the caja-’ib, containing themes of entertainment—things that are marvellous and strange. But these stories are not merely entertaining, they are an additional resource for the modern researcher because they also reflect the realities of daily life in seafaring communities of the Indian Ocean in the ninth and tenth centuries. Among the tales of the fantastic and the marvel, we find the simple humanity of the seafarers, something lacking in the purely factual, medieval, geographical and historical texts. A complementary model to the understanding of the maritime landscape of a group or community is proposed in this article. The stories model in this article demonstrates the relationship of an occupational group with other seafarers in a trans-regional Indian Ocean trade.en_GB
dc.identifier.citationPublished online 24 July 2020en_GB
dc.identifier.doi10.1177/0974928420936132
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10871/121773
dc.language.isoenen_GB
dc.publisherSAGE Publications / Indian Council of World Affairsen_GB
dc.rights© 2020 Indian Council of World Affairs (ICWA)
dc.subjectstories modelen_GB
dc.subjectMarvels of Indiaen_GB
dc.subjectmaritime landscapesen_GB
dc.subjectcommunity or groups identityen_GB
dc.subjectnautical dataen_GB
dc.subjectfact and fictionen_GB
dc.titleWhere facts and history meet myth and legend: Groups or communities in the Marvels of India stories modelen_GB
dc.typeArticleen_GB
dc.date.available2020-07-03T15:13:10Z
dc.identifier.issn0251-3048
dc.descriptionThis is the author accepted manuscript. The final version is available from SAGE Publications via the DOI in this recorden_GB
dc.identifier.eissn0975-2684
dc.identifier.journalIndia Quarterlyen_GB
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dcterms.dateAccepted2020-06-29
rioxxterms.versionAMen_GB
rioxxterms.licenseref.startdate2020-06-29
rioxxterms.typeJournal Article/Reviewen_GB
refterms.dateFCD2020-07-03T14:54:08Z
refterms.versionFCDAM
refterms.dateFOA2020-08-24T14:23:14Z
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