Indian Ocean
“Pleased with the Gujarati pilot”: Muslim Knowledge Facilitating European Navigation
The Gujarati Pilot who helped Vasco da Gama reach India
“The Season in Which One is Compelled to Travel”: Teaching Knowledge of the Monsoons
Teaching the monsoons
“A Dozen Bamboo Fishing Nets”: Fishing Nets and Technological Transfer in the Indian Ocean
Teaching technological transfer in the Indian Ocean
“Merchants Came to Malabar”: Diasporic Communities in the Indian Ocean
Teaching diaspora communities in the Indian Ocean
“Method of Building the Ships”: Chinese Ships Before 1400
Discussion of teaching Indian Ocean shipping technology
“As Soon as the Merchants Arrive”: Melaka and Indian Ocean Trade Before 1450
Discussion of teaching Melaka
“Everything is Found in Zanzibar”: East Africa, Zanzibar, and World History in the Nineteenth Century
Discussion of teaching nineteenth-century East Africa and Zanzibar
“At Variance with the Europeans”: East Africa, 1400 - c.1750
Discussion of teaching early modern East Africa
“Under God’s Guidance to the Lands of the Swahili Coast”: East Africa Before 1500
Discussion of teaching East African history before 1500
Steamships and the Hajj
Discussion of teaching the effects of steamships on Islam
