Arab navigation in the Indian Ocean before the coming of the Portuguese : being a translation of Kitāb al-Fawāʼid fī uṣūl al-baḥr waʼl-qawāʼid of Aḥmad b. Mājid al-Najdī ; together with an introduction on the history of Arab navigation, notes on the navigational techniques and on the topography of the Indian Ocean and a glossary of navigational terms 9780718909000, 0718909003

Arab Navigation in the Indian Ocean Before the Coming of the Portuguese: Being a Translation of Kitāb Al-fawāi̓dfī Usūl Al-bahr Wa'l-qawā'id of Ahmad B. Mājid Al-Najdī 0718909003, 9780718909000

Arab Navigation in the Indian Ocean Before the Coming of the Portuguese: Being a Translation of Kitāb Al-fawāi̓dfī Usūl

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'The Most Dangerous Moment of the War': Japan's Attack on the Indian Ocean, 1942 1612003354, 9781612003351

"A well-detailed account of the [World War II] raid, which badly stung the Royal Navy but which the Japanese failed

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The Ring of the Dove: A Treatise on the Art and Practice of Arab Love 9781898942030

Ibn Hazm's Tawq al-Hamama ('The Ring of the Dove') The famous Arabic book on love and lovers, Tawq al-ham

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Indian Ocean Slavery in the Age of Abolition 9780300166460

While the British were able to accomplish abolition in the trans-Atlantic world by the end of the nineteenth century, th

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The Fire on the Ocean: Naval War of 1812 9788026892649

This carefully crafted ebook: "The Fire on the Ocean: The Naval War of 1812" is formatted for your eReader wit

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A hundred horizons: the Indian Ocean in the age of global empire 9780674021570, 9780674032194, 9780674028579

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Testimonies of Enslavement: Sources on Slavery from the Indian Ocean World 9781350122352, 9781350140318, 9781350122369

Drawing on the rich archives of the Court of Justice of Cochin, a main settlement of the Dutch East India Company, this

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An Ocean of the Ultimate Meaning: Teachings on Mahamudra

In this new book, Khenchen Thrangu provides an exhaustive commentary on the longest and most comprehensive of the three

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Reflections on the History of Indian Science and Technology 9788194689263

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On Being Indian: The Organic Intellectual, Mystical Poetry, and Lineages of Indian Rationalism 9789357767934

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